We’re at the Congress Centre in London for today’s Westminster eForum event, which is titled ‘File-sharing, copyright and the digital consumer’. We’re liveblogging all morning, with a mixture of speeches and panel sessions.Peter Wishart MP kicks things off – one of the few members of parliament to have also been an artist (Runrig and Big Country).”The whole issues of file-sharing, copyright and the digital consumer have gone mainstream,” he says. “The Digital Economy Act has seen to that.”He supported the DEA, and points out that despite dire warnings that he’d lose his seat for doing so, trebled his majority in the recent General Election.”The Digital Economy Act has changed everything. What we have now is a real opportunity. The public are really engaged in this debate, even if we don’t all agree.”He thinks it’s a chance for a full debate on intellectual property and copyright, taking in the public as well as politicians, the creative industries and the technology/ISP sector.Here’s the links to our coverage, which we’ll update throughout the morning:Berwin Leighton Paisner talks copyright challengesAIM, Consumer Focus, GamesBrief and Hospital Records panelPeter Jenner on digital content consumersJeremy Silver talks copyright and confidenceTackling illegal file-sharing panel
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