This morning’s Video Rights Roundtable was, as we hoped, a rare opportunity for online video industry players to talk about their conflicts and collaborations in the wild — not in a courtroom or conference room.  In a (more than) two-hour discussion, the nearly 50 attendees shared their perspectives on the increasingly complex world of rights, responsibility and opportunities surrounding online video content. Complete liveblog coverage is available at GigaOM Pro (subscription required), and Ryan Lawler was on-site with some additional event coverage at NewTeeVee. More links below the fold (and full event video coming soon!).  

• In Round One, Ethan Applen, director of technology and business strategy for Warner Bros., talked about copyright enforcement as video content shifts online. While the DVD business was threatened by the emergence of digital piracy, he said that online distribution is even more vulnerable. To approach the problem, he said, the first line of defense is to make illegal consumption of content online more difficult. “That’s what we need to tackle,” he added (subscription required).

• In Round Two, Liz Gannes brought Michael Seibel, CEO of Justin.TV, and Yangbin Wang, from Vobile, up to discuss rights issues specific to real-time/live-streaming video content (subscription required). The two companies are partnering to automate unauthorized content detection and takedown. Ryan has the full scoop at NewTeeVee.

• In Round Three, Betsy Zedek, content protection counsel, Fox Group Legal, fielded questions about the future of copyright law in the digital age (sub. required), and the audience discussed the sticky issue of fair use. Paul Sweeting takes a deeper look at these issues at GigaOM Pro.

• The final section of the event was an open discussion among the audience (sub. required), which touched on the challenges posed by BitTorrent (Ryan recaps this discussion over at NewTeeVee), opportunities to monetize online content in new ways, and the future of medium-budget movies.