User-Gen and The Law

Speaking of Michael Geist, he wrote an interesting piece on what I tend to call the YouYear (the year, labeled by Business 2.0 and TIME as the year of the individual creator).
Michael Geist - The Policy Response to the User-Generated Content Boom
He emphasises the legal/policy issues, obviously, but it's also important to think about social implications of anyone being able to provide public access to their own creative content.