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Future of Music Policy Conference 2001: Panelist BiosJanuary 10 - 11, 2001 - Washington, DC Dave Allen Dave Allen is founding member and bass player of Gang of Four, Shriekback, King Swamp and Low Pop Suicide. After a music career that spanned 15 years of playing music he swapped sides and formed an independent label, World Domination, in Los Angeles in 1990. During this period he became a contributing editor for Raygun magazine. He also became very interested in what was then the burgeoning Internet space. World Domination had a very forward thinking label manager, Jason Fiber (Wherehousemusic.com) who designed and built their website which at the time was a first for an independent label. Dave's interest in this arena brought him into contact with Scott Blum (imusic.com) and Ted Mico (Launch) who had a music portal in Seattle called imusic.com. He joined with these two and assisted imusic.com in getting music for review from a highly skeptical music industry. To cut a long story short, he decided to immerse himself fully into the Internet Music Business by first taking a position as Director, Internet Strategy at Koch International followed by becoming General Manager, Los Angeles Division for EMusic.com and ultimately to joining Intel's Consumer Digital Audio Services Operation where he is currently employed. Chris Amenita Christopher Amenita is the Vice President of New Media and Technology at ASCAP. He is responsible for overseeing ASCAP's licensing efforts on the internet, as well as evaluating emerging technology surrounding the digital delivery of music on the internet. Chris was involved in the creation of ASCAP's New Media and Technology Department and ASCAP's Web Site in 1995. In addition, Chris is also ASCAP's representative on the SDMI Project. He has directed numerous projects in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, and most recently, in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology. John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow was born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on October 3, 1947. He is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist. He graduated in 1969 with High Honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. More recently, he co-founded and still co-chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was the first to apply the term Cyberspace to the "place" it presently describes. He has written for a diversity of publications, including Communications of the ACM, Mondo 2000, The New York Times, and Time. He has been on the masthead of Wired Magazine since it was founded. His piece on the future of copyright, "The Economy of Ideas" is taught in many law schools and his "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" is posted on thousands of web sites. In 1997, he was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and has been, since 1998, as a Berkman Fellow at the Harvard Law School.He works actively with several consulting groups, including Diamond Technology Partners, Vanguard, and Global Business Network. In June 1999, FutureBanker Magazine named him "One of the 25 Most Influential People in Financial Services He writes, speaks, and consults on a broad variety of subjects, particularly digital economy. He lives in Wyoming, New York, San Francisco, On the Road, and in Cyberspace. He has three teenaged daughters and aspires to be a good ancestor. Anthony Berman Anthony Berman is an entertainment and Internet law attorney in San Francisco. A partner in the firm Idell, Berman & Seitel, his primary practice areas include negotiation of entertainment contracts, including recording, publishing, touring and presentation, digital distribution, webcasting, film and multimedia agreements, advising clients on legal issues involved in the formation of entertainment-related organizations and protection of copyrights and trademarks. Mr. Berman is the editor-in-chief of Multimedia & Entertainment Law Online News (M.E.L.O.N.) and a contributing editor to Entertainment Industry Contracts, published by Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. He was the Chair of the Sports and Entertainment Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco from 1998 through 1999 and is an adjunct faculty member of Golden Gate University School of Law where he teaches entertainment law. James Boyle James Boyle is a professor of law at Duke Law School. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1997). His articles about intellectual property, the Internet and electronic civil liberties have been published in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Salon, and the Times Literary Supplement. His website is http://james-boyle.com. Michael Bracy Michael Bracy is an associate with Bracy Williams & Company. He is Executive Director of the Low Power Radio Coalition, and a partner with the independent record label Misra. Between 1990 and 1997, he produced distance education courses, videotapes and multimedia titles for RXL Pulitzer, an educational communications firm based in Seattle. Whitney Broussard Whitney Broussard is an attorney at Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, LLP, a boutique music and new media firm (12 lawyers) with offices in New York City and Santa Monica, California. The firm's clients have included MTV Networks, Atlantic Records, The Fugees, Third Eye Blind, The Wu-Tang Clan, Fisher, Jessica Simpson, Ludacris, Astralwerks, Caroline Distribution, Paula Abdul, Van Halen, Sweet16.com, Broadjam, UBO and a number of other developing and established recording artists, producers, songwriters, publishing companies, record companies and new media companies. Whitney has been with this firm for just under 5 years. Prior to that he was at Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Yanny in Century City, California (whose main clients included Virgin Records America, Windswept Pacific Publishing, Bob Dylan, Ted Nugent, Graham Nash and Acclaim Entertainment). He started his career in Business Affairs at Capitol Records in Los Angeles, where he worked for 5 years. Janelle Brown Janelle Brown is a senior technology writer at Salon, where she has been cited as one of the most influential "Net-generation" writers to explore the impact technology is having on our lives. She was named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web in 1998. Janelle is a regular commentator on NPR and CNNfn and has contributed to Wired, Rolling Stone, the Utne Reader, Spin, Business 2.0, Shift, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the San Jose Mercury News. She also serves as the director of broadband programming at Salon.com, where she has helped spearhead the development of Salon's audio programming. Janelle has also played a key role in the growth of the women's publishing industry online. As the co-founder of Maxi Magazine and Estronet she created one of the first feminist zines on the Web and helped establish a vibrant pro-grrl movement online. She moderates the Estrolist online women's community. As Maxi's editor she has been profiled in publications ranging from Harper's Bazaar to Spin to Yahoo! Internet Life. Janelle started her online journalism career at HotWired / Wired Digital, working on the World Beat travel site, and was on the original staff of Wired News. Previously, she cut her teeth at San Francisco music and lifestyle magazines like Surface and Clublife. James M. Burger Jim Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes & Albertson specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, communications and government policy matters. Jim joined the firm's Media, Information and Technology group in January, 1997. Prior to that, Jim was a Senior Director in Apple Computer's Law Department. During the nine years he was at Apple, Jim had a variety of assignments, including representing Apple's the Advanced Technology Group, USA Field Sales organizations, and World-Wide Operations and Manufacturing, as well as General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for world wide government affairs. In addition, from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights Committee. Jim has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Jim has participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music - representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD Content Scrambling System copy protection rules as well as the Secure Digital Music Initiative. In addition, he has been engaged in such matters as the efforts to amend copyright law from leading the negotiations to exclude the computer industry from the Audio Home Recording Act, to avoid passage of the Digital Video Recording Act and to accommodate the protection of intellectual property on the Internet as well as the efforts to change the encryption export rules to protect digital communications. A native of New York City, he received his Bachelors (with Honors), Masters and Law (cum laude) degrees from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal. For seven years, he was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative law. Lester Chambers Lester Chambers doesn't just play and sing his distinctive blend of rock and R&B infused gospel soul, he lives it. On his self titled debut for independent powerhouse label Explosive Records, Lester fused the spirit of rock's early roots with the energy of today in a compelling blend of articulate yet uniquely original and cover material. As a member of the Chambers Brothers (whose landmark hit, "Time Has Come Today" became an integral part of the soundtrack of the '60s), he helped create the psychedelic soul genre that spawned Jimi Hendrix and Sly & The Family Stone. But it is as a contemporary artist that Lester is making his greatest contribution to the legacy of popular music. Born and raised in Mississippi, Lester grew up on a steady diet of rural blues and the new hybrid of gospel and rock n' roll called rhythm and blues. When he and his three brothers moved to Los Angeles with their family in the late '50s, Lester became exposed to the urban R&B phenomenon which dominated local radio at the time. Not surprisingly, the Chambers Brothers' residency at the famed Ash Grove club, was in large part informed by Lester's uncanny ability to marry the defining elements of these companion genres. Observed then up and coming blues/folk icon Taj Mahal, "The Chambers Brothers weren't just a great band, they were an event!" Music critics at the time unanimously agreed that this was in large part due to the singularly striking presence of Lester Chambers. Leonardo Chiariglione Leonardo Chiariglione was born in Almese (Italy). He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and obtained his Ph. D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1973. Since 1971 he has been with CSELT, the corporate research centre of the Telecom Italia group where he is head of the Multimedia Services and Technologies Research Division. In 1986 he founded the HDTV Workshop, an international event to promote HDTV technologies beyond specific industry interests. In 1988 he founded the ISO Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards committee. In 1989 he founded Image Communications, a EURASIP Journal for the development of the theory and practice of image communication. In 1994 he founded the Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) to develop internationally agreed specifications specification of open interfaces and protocols. In 1996 he founded the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) to develop internationally agreed specifications of generic agent technologies that are usable across a large number of applications. In 1998 he founded the Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) to develop internationally agreed specifications that will make possible for a user to consume and pay for services, without having prior knowledge of which services would be consumed. In 1999 he was asked to be the Executive Director of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, a group with the participation of more than 200 companies, developing specification s for secure digital music delivery. Ted Cohen Richard Conlon Richard Conlon is the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for BMI. In his position Conlon is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of sales and marketing strategies to manage BMI's digital licensing business and increase BMI licensing penetration with existing media customers. Conlon is a frequent speaker on the digital rights marketplace at digital media industry events including Jupiter Plug-In , Webnoize, Digital Hollywood , PROMAX and South by Southwest. He has served media industry organizations including the CTAM Mark Awards (Final Judge), NATPE IRIS Awards (Final Judge), PROMAX and BCFM. Previously Conlon was Assistant Vice President, Sales and Marketing for BMI. In that role he was responsible for managing the long term and day to day activities of BMI's Media Licensing Sales and Marketing Team. Prior to joining BMI, Conlon was a television marketing consultant to SET, Viacom's Pay Per View production and marketing arm where he managed trade and consumer marketing and promotion for live Pay Per View events. He also served as Vice President Affiliate Sales and Marketing for The Learning Channel cable network. He holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from The Annenberg School of Communications at The University of Southern California where he contributed to the development of The California Channel public affairs network, and B.A. in English from Boston College. Manus Cooney Manus Cooney joined Napster in January 2001 as Vice President for Corporate and Policy Development. He is responsible for setting the company's strategic course on legislative policy issues that effect the company, its users, and artists; he represents Napster before Congress and the Administration, and advises the company on licensing, strategic alliances, and partnerships both domestically and abroad. Prior to joining Napster, Mr. Cooney served as Chief Counsel & Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where he was the principal legal and policy advisor to the Committee's Chair, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah. In addition to overseeing the Committee's day-to-day operations, Mr. Cooney was primarily responsible for the development and stewardship of the Committee's legislative, executive, and oversight agendas. The issues overseen by Mr. Cooney include: the judicial nominations process; intellectual property law (e.g. the "American Inventors Protection Act" and the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act"); Internet policy issues (e.g. Committee antitrust hearings on Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age); antitrust law; civil justice reform; crime/drug control policy; and oversight of the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch He holds degrees from Villanova University and the University of Baltimore Law School. Jay Cooper Mr. Cooper's practice focuses on the music business, motion picture, television, multi-media and intellectual property issues. Mr. Cooper represents individuals and companies concerning a wide array of matters relative to intellectual property, from recording and publishing agreements for individual artists and composers, actor, director and writer agreements to complex acquisitions and sale of entertainment catalogs, production agreements on behalf of music, television and motion picture companies and all entertainment issues relative to the internet. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School, U.C.L.A. Law School, USC Law School, USC Music School, Stanford Law School, Boalt Hall, Tulane Law School, the Florida Bar Association, the Texas Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the California Copyright Conference, MIDEM, American Film Market, the Cannes Film Festival, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the U.S. Copyright Society, and the American Bar Association. He is also a former adjunct professor of Entertainment Law at Loyola Law School. He was educated at DePaul University, J.D.and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Admitted to practice in California, Illinois and New York. Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, California State Bar Association, American Bar Association and International Bar Association. Mr. Cooper is the former President of both the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the California Copyright Conference. He is also former Chair of the ABA Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. Member, Los Angeles Copyright Society, California Copyright Conference. Member, Executive Committee and General Counsel of U.S.A. for Africa and Hands Across America. Board Member, Society of Singers and American Jazz Philharmonic. Co-Chair, Alliance of Artists & Recording Companies. Co-Chair, T.J. Martell Annual Music & Entertainment Industry Tennis Open. Philip Corwin Philip S. Corwin is a Partner at Butera & Andrews, a Washington, DC law and lobbying firm. He is also President of Virtualaw LLC, an E-Commerce consulting firm. He has more than twenty years of federal legislative experience, with his expertise focused on the emerging law of electronic commerce, as well as financial services and bankruptcy maters. As one example, he formulated and executed a successful lobbying strategy that resulted in the striking of adverse evidentiary presumptions for digitally authenticated tax documents under the electronic tax filing provisions of the 1998 IRS Reform bill. Mr. Corwin will help Butera & Andrews continue its record of outstanding legislative representation of the financial services industry while helping it expand its ability to address E-Commerce and intellectual property issues, including the many legal and policy questions affecting the future of digital media. Mr. Corwin is an active member of several American Bar Association Committees. He is currently the Washington Liaison for the Science and Technology Section; Legislative Reporter for the Business Law Section's Cyberspace Law Committee; and Vice-Chair of the Financial Services Integration Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). He formerly served as Co-Chair of TIPS' Investment, Financial Services and Taxation Committee; and is an active member of the Banking Law, Consumer Financial Services, Consumer Bankruptcy, and Commercial Bankruptcy Committees. He received his B.A. in Government from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, his JD from Boston College Law School, and is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts. Mr. Corwin has been a guest on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, CNN Newsmaker, CBS This Morning, CBS Nightwatch, CNBC Capitol Gains, CNBC Business Insiders, C-Span Washington Journal, Court TV Washington Watch, The Wall Street Journal Report, and other television and radio news and business programs. Additionally, he has testified before Congress; is a frequent speaker before legal, banking, technology, digital entertainment and financial services industry audiences; and served as an adviser to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He spoke in regard to copyright and other legal issues affecting digital media delivery at such venues as Tulane Law School's Digital Music Forum, Webnoize 99, and at Streaming Media 2000. He has addressed technology-related legislative and regulatory initiatives at such forums as Glasser Legalworks' E-commerce Law School and the Practicing Law Institute's Internet Law Institute. His articles discussing such topics as encryption, and electronic authentication and Internet commerce, have appeared in Future Banker and Jurimetrics. Additional writings on financial services and bankruptcy matters appeared in Legal Times, American Banker, Banking Expansion Reporter, Banking Policy Report, Best's Review, Southern Banker, ABA Banking Journal, National Underwriter, Banks in Insurance Report, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, American Bankruptcy Institute Newsletter, Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, and Independent Banker. Prior to his current activities, Mr. Corwin was a partner at Federal Legislative Associates, a Washington lobbying firm. Before that, he served as Director and Counsel of Operations, Retail Banking, and Risk Management for the American Bankers Association (ABA). He directed ABA's bankruptcy reform effort, which culminated in the enactment of the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994." He was also responsible for overseeing ABA's federal legislative and regulatory efforts in such areas as wholesale and retail payments systems, bank cards, consumer disclosure and compliance, coinage, bank insurance activities, money laundering, student lending, and environmental liability. He began at ABA as Senior Federal Legislative Counsel, with duties focused on legislative drafting and analysis as well as policy development. From 1981 to 1985 Mr. Corwin served as Legislative Counsel to the Independent Bankers Association of America. From 1976 to 1981 he held professional staff positions at the United States Senate. Mr. Corwin has been listed in American Banker's Annual Guide to Washington's
Most Influential People and Who's Who in American Law. Nick Currie Nick Currie was born in Scotland in 1960. He graduated with a first class honours degree in literature from the University of Aberdeen in 1984. He's been recording as Momus since 1985, with releases on indie labels such as Cherry Red, el, Creation, Bungalow, and Le Grand Magistery. He's lived in London, Paris and currently makes his home in New York's Lower East Side. Momus records are strong on storyline, with a satirical bent. They pastiche current pop styles but tend to purvey perverse and provocative perspectives rather than the 'aggressive normality' more usually conveyed in popular music lyrics. Necessity is often the mother of Momus' inventions. When the musical inspiration behind his 1998 style Analog Baroque (also the name of his label in Britain) sued for libel and copyright infringement, Momus responded by selling portrait songs of 'patronage chamber pop' for $1000 each. The resulting album, 1999's 'Stars Forever', is amongst his most entertaining. Momus came to New York in 2000 at the invitation of the Knitting Factory, who gave him the opportunity to stage a series of performance pieces entitled 'Electronics in the 18th Century'. He spent the rest of the year making an audio CD of ethnomusicology called 'Fakeways: Manhattan Folk', mounting a one-man art show in a Chelsea gallery, and cutting an album of plastic folk, his forthcoming release 'Folktronic'. To supplement his income he also made a film soundtrack and music for a TV commercial. When he wasn't engaged in these projects, Momus was adding essays and digital photos to his labyrinthine website at http://www.demon.co.uk/momus. Chuck D. As leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and Hip Hop culture with the release of PE's explosive debut album, Yo Bum Rush The Show, in 1987. His messages addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before. The group's subsequent seven albums were released over the next 13 years, all meeting with critical acclaim from publications as disparate as Time and The Source, and worldwide sales in the millions. And at the close of 1999, The New York Times named Public Enemy's music to their list of the "25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century." The numbers that reflect their extraordinary career are staggering. The band has embarked on over 33 tours, performing over 1200 concerts to fans in 40 countries. Three albums are certified multi-platinum; three more are gold, with four gold singles and a platinum-selling home video. The critical and commercial success of Public Enemy opened the doors for Chuck to deliver his message through a number of different mediums, extending his reach to all segments of the population. He has hosted his own segment on the Fox News Channel, published a best-selling autobiography, "Fight The Power." Is a highly-sought after speaker on the college lecture circuit (lecturing at universities ranging from Harvard to Howard), is a prominent member of music industry non-profit organizations MusicCares and Rock The Vote (which honored him with the Patrick Lippert Award in 1996 for his contributions to community service) and started the record label SlamJamz. He served as national spokesperson for Rock The Vote, the National Urban League and the National Alliance of African American Athletes, and appeared in public service announcements for HBO's campaign for national peace and the Partnership for the Drug Free America. He is also a regular guest on numerous television shows including Nightline, Politically Incorrect and on CNN. Most recently, the media has anointed Chuck as the spokesperson and major proponent of music on the Internet. In September, 1999, he launched a multi-format "supersite" on the Web, Rapstation.com. A home for the vast global Hip Hop community, the site boasts a TV and radio station with original programming, a slew of Hip Hop's most prominent DJs, celebrity interviews, free MP3 downloads (the first was contributed by multi-platinum rapper Coolio), social commentary, current events, and regular features dedicated to empowering rap artists with the knowledge to turn their craft into a viable living. The site has partnered with some of the most exciting and innovative companies on the Web, including RealNetworks, House of Blues Digital, Launch, Tucows, Rioport, Communities.com, New World Culture, All Earth, and AudioGalaxy. Chuck has also launched a radio station on the Internet, Bringthenoise.com, and in a landmark move, made Public Enemy the first multi-platinum selling act to release their album via the Web before it was available in retail stores. He challenged and expanded the traditional methods of retail distribution, arranging for the album to also be the first-ever to be released on a Zip disk. Chuck's involvement in the Internet has landed him on the cover of The Net, Wired, Bomb and Yahoo Internet Life magazines, and he was the guest editor of the 1999 year-end issue of Red Herring, one of the tech industry's leading business magazines. He has also been a guest contributor to Time Magazine. His outspoken advocacy of the Web also been profiled in Forbes, Time, USA Today and The Industry Standard, and he was named to Upside magazine's "Elite 100" list of Internet leaders, alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. He is currently working on a second book, has formed a rock band that will release an album later this summer, is booked to deliver keynote addresses and sits on panels at over a dozen conventions this year alone, and continues to appear as a guest lecturer at colleges across the country. Fred Davis Fred Davis is the founding partner of Davis Shapiro & Lewit, a prominent law firm specializing in music law with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. Chris DiBona Chris DiBona is the Linux Community Evangelist for VA Linux Systems, an Open Source company specializing in servers, workstations, clusters and accompanying services. He has served as the Linux International Grant Chair and the President of the Silicon Valley Linux users Group. His writing and editorial credits include a variety of online and print venues. He co-edited the book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Software Revolution and published the Terrorist Profile Weekly. He lives in Palo Alto, Ca. His past work experience includes evaluating technology for the US Department of State, computer security work with Tandem Computers (now Compaq) , administering a large email network for the Howrey and Simon law firm and a short stint as a computer consultant. Ric Dube Prior to four years as Senior Editor of Webnoize News, Dr. Ric Dube was lead analyst at the Center for Social Science Computing and Research (CSSCR) in Seattle, an internationally active think tank, and an analyst at Elway Research, also in Seattle. Dube taught mass media and communications at the University of Connecticut and University of Washington, and managed major research projects for the City of Seattle and RXL Pulitzer, a partnership between Pulitzer Inc., Morgan Murphy Broadcasting and The Rockey Company. An expert on new media technologies and the music industry, as well as on research design and data analysis, Dube speaks at entertainment and technology industry gatherings worldwide, and is a regular presence in print and broadcast media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone magazine, Reuters, CNN, MTV, CNET Radio, the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe. A published author on the mechanics of persuasion, attitude change, and media credibility, Dube holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Steve Englund Steve Englund is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter, where he has a broad intellectual property and technology practice. Mr. Englund has extensive experience counseling clients on matters of copyright, patent and trade secret law and represents clients in a wide variety of commercial and corporate transactions. He also has represented clients in connection with legislative matters, including the industry negotiations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and related litigation, including the recording industry's suit against MP3.com. He received his J.D., cum laude, in 1989 from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A., magna cum laude, in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1986. Dave Fagin Dave Fagin is "a loser who plays in a pop band that just so happened to have said 'NO' to an awful record contract that seemed like common sense to me but unfortunately lots of us say 'YES.' " He is guitarist vocalist for the Rosenbergs, and describes himself as a Jew and all around nice guy. His favorite comedian is Rupert Pupkin. Contact Dave Fagin at onedder@aol.com. Edward Felten Edward Felten is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1993. He is one of the leading experts on security and privacy on the Internet, and was a member of a group of researchers that successfully analyzed the SDMI watermarking schemes. He has been active in the public debate on the future of access control technology and copyright law. He also served as the main technical expert witness for the Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case. William Terry Fisher Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History, and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993). He is the author of American Legal Realism (with Morton Horwitz and Thomas Reed; Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), Legal Reform in Central America (with Martha Field; Harvard University Press, 2000), The Law of the Land (forthcoming from Oxford Univ. Press), and many articles on property law, intellectual-property law, and American legal history. Alec Foege Alec Foege is a writer based in New York City. He has reported on the online music revolution for The New York Times, New York Magazine, Spin, Yahoo! Internet Life and other publications and is currently writing a book about the clash between the traditional entertainment culture and the Internet. A former Rolling Stone contributing editor and Spin senior editor, he is the author of "Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story" (St. Martin's, 1994) and "The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's Media Machine" (Wiley, 1996). Ken Freundlich Kenneth D. Freundlich has been an entertainment lawyer in New York and California for the past 15 years. He was an associate at the entertainment litigation firms Lavely & Singer P.C. (Los Angeles) and Parcher & Hayes (New York) where he worked on cases for, among others, Georgio Moroder, Michael Jackson, Tom Selleck, Sylvester Stallone, Rodney Dangerfield, John Waite, Poison, Warner Bros. Records, BMG Music, Mariah Carey, Sony Music, Paul Simon, Gloria Estefan, C&C Music Factory, MC Hammer, New Kids on the Block, Lou Piniella and the Estate of Andy Warhol. From 1993-1999, Mr. Freundlich had his own firm in New York City, representing clients in litigation and transactional matters such as The Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Spacehog, Chuck D and Public Enemy, The John Lennon Music Awards, The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Leon Gast, David Sonenberg, James Steinman, Musicnet, and Kool Moe Dee. Among other projects, he handled the complicated music and motion picture legal clearances for the Academy Award-winning film about Muhammad Ali and George Foreman,"When We Were Kings." In early 1999 Mr. Freundlich relocated to Los Angeles to become Executive Vice President of Atomic Pop, LLC, an internet-based record company. His responsibilities included new media legal issues, acquisitions, strategic and financial planning, syndication, joint ventures, and due diligence management. In August, 2000, Mr. Freundlich left Atomic Pop to form Schleimer & Freundlich, LLP and resume the private practice of law. The firm emphasizes litigation for artists and small companies in the motion picture, television, music and interactive industries, including contract disputes, profit participation, royalty claims, copyright litigation, artist/manager disputes, guild and talent agency arbitrations, new media intellectual properties and clearances, right of publicity/Lanham Act litigation, malpractice defense of entertainment industry professionals, and general civil litigation in the State and Federal Courts. Mr. Freundlich holds a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in management from Brown University (1981); an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business (1985); and a J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law (1985). He was admitted to the California Bar in 1985, the New York Bar in 1988, and has also been admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Randy Frisch Randy Frisch is president of LoveCat Music, an independent publisher based in New York. In the last year LoveCat's songs have been in over 200 films & TV shows. Previously, Mr. Frisch was a music industry attorney for eight years. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Boston University. Mr. Frisch has taught college classes on entertainment law and published articles on copyright law. Before attending law school Mr. Frisch played in a band that released one album independently. D. Linda García Linda García is the Associate Director of CCT. Previously, she was Project Director and Senior Associate at the Office of Technology Assessment, of the US Congress where she directed studies on electronic commerce, intellectual property rights, national and international telecommunications policy, standards development, and telecommunication and economic development. She holds a Ph.D. in Social science and Informatics from the University of Amsterdam, an M.A. in Philosophy of Political Science from Columbia University, an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.A. in International Relations & International Economics from Syracuse University. Ron Gertz Ronald H. Gertz, Esq., is President of Music Reports, Inc. Mr. Gertz is a copyright attorney whose legal practice began with the representation of clients in the television, publishing and recording fields. Mr. Gertz serves as an expert for the television, radio, cable and internet industries in copyright royalty proceedings in the U.S. and Canada. He is a member of the internet and digital technologies music licensing subcommittees of the television and radio industry, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Mr. Gertz has been a director of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Songwriters, a member of the Interactive Multimedia Association's Intellectual Property Task Force, and is a past president of the California Copyright Conference. Mr. Gertz was trained as a classical vocalist and guitarist, and has performed professionally in many rock tours. He is also a member of ASCAP and The Society of Composers and Lyricists. Music Reports, Inc. (MRI) offers music licensing and royalty administration services to major broadcast, media and enterprise customers that use or enable the delivery of musical compositions and sound recordings in audio only and audio/visual programming. MRI is leading the future of license and royalty administration for broadcast and streaming media through its focus on customer care and through open and transparent royalty administration systems. MRI currently administers over 70 million dollars per year in license royalties. Many of the leading broadcasting organizations and music/program delivery services use MRI's services including media and entertainment leaders ABC, CBS, NBC, Muzak, Hearst Argyle, Cox, Gannett, SONY, QVC, Post-Newsweek, Lucent Technologies, etc. MRI was founded in 1980. For more information about MRI's services, visit their Web site, Michael Greene Michael Greene, President and CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (the Recording Academy) and the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (the Latin Recording Academy) is a veteran of the entertainment and communications industries. A son of a Big Band leader, Greene began his career as a recording artist and producer before segueing to president of Apogee, a popular recording studio where he worked with Kenny Loggins, Lionel Richie and Kansas - some of the top artists of the era. At the same time, he also ran five music publishing companies. Greene's experience also includes a stint as CEO of Cable Marketing Group, one of the nation's first cable television advertising firms. As president of Video Music Channel, Greene ran one of the first cable video music channels, which was a joint venture with General Instruments and Prudential, and provided a daily satellite feed of music programming. Prior to NARAS, Greene was head of one of the world's largest post production companies, Crawford Post Production, now known as Crawford Communications. Since taking the reins of NARAS in 1989, Greene has led the tripling of the Academy's membership from 5,000 to 16,000 music industry professionals. In addition to the National Office in Santa Monica, under Greene the Academy has expanded into 12 chapters and branches, with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York, and Washington D.C., as well as the Latin Recording Academy office in Miami, among others. Perhaps the best known aspect of the Recording Academy, the annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony, has grown in stature under Greene's leadership to become the world's premier music event. In addition to becoming an international television and media extravaganza, the show's international distribution has grown from 12 countries to over 165 with an estimated international viewing audience of nearly 2 billion people. The GRAMMY Awards under Greene have kept pace with the shifts in music. By adding awards categories and highlighting the next wave of artists through appearances on the widely-watched telecast, the GRAMMY Awards have become the bellwether for other awards shows. The Latin GRAMMY Awards, which held its first show September 13, 2000, recognizes creative and technical excellence in the international Latin music community. Under Greene's guidance, the telecast marked the first time a largely Spanish-language program aired in prime time. The two-hour telecast was part of a larger ceremony which boasted awards in 40 key categories covering many genres and sub-genres of Latin music, and was seen internationally in over 120 countries. Greene is also president of the Academy's two non-profit arms, the GRAMMY Foundation and the MusiCares Foundation. The GRAMMY Foundation (formerly the NARAS Foundation) has an ambitious agenda advancing music and arts education across the nation. The Foundation, which annually spends over $4 million on education programs and grants reaching more than 2 million people, also builds partnerships to ensure that America's musical legacy is preserved. It recently helped introduce legislation (dubbed the 'GRAMMY Bill' by legislators) to create a National Recording Registry designed to maintain and preserve recordings that are culturally, aesthetically or historically significant. The Registry, modeled after how seminal films are currently preserved and archived, will be housed in the Library of Congress. MusiCares, which holds its annual fund-raising dinner gala two days before the telecast, distributed in 1999 nearly $1 million to those in need and approves 96% of all requests for assistance. It is committed to the health and welfare of all music people, providing a lifeline to those in need with its numerous outreach services which include financial assistance and drug abuse intervention and treatment. During Greene's term at NARAS, the Academy has developed many new programs, including: establishment of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS), establishment of the Latin GRAMMY Awards, GRAMMY in the Schools programs, GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensembles, National GRAMMY Concert Series for Children, GRAMMY Festival and Community Outreach, GRAMMY Sessions, GRAMMY Signature Schools, GRAMMY University Education Network, and the MusiCares Foundation which makes the Substance Abuse Initiative, Financial Assistance Program, Directory of Human Resources, and Assisted Living Facilities available to music industry professionals. Additionally, the Recording Academy has emerged as the voice of the creative and technical music community for issues such as: Intellectual Property Protection/Copyright Infringement, First Amendment/Freedom of expression protection, Music and Arts Education, Digital Music Distribution, and Public Support of the Arts Endowments and Public Broadcasting. Greene also serves as the National Corporate Spokesman for the American Music Therapy Association. Greene is a recipient of the coveted Georgy award and an inductee into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The award is a crowning achievement for select individuals and groups of performers active in Georgia's music industry. Greene holds honorary Doctorates from both USC and Berklee School of Music. Jim Griffin Jim Griffin is CEO of Cherry Lane Digital and a founder of Evolab. Cherry Lane is dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art. Evolab is a wireless media service company, primarily focused on wireless streaming music jukeboxes and other wireless media services. In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in the media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for the award-winning international magazine Business 2.0, and is on the boards of companies and associations. Before starting Cherry Lane Digital, he started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C. While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States. He was named to the list of the 100 most important people in the music business in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, when the list was discontinued. Jim is one of the founders of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets weekly in numerous cities around the world and is electronically linked by a mailing list. Pho's thousand-strong membership enjoys dialogue on the digital economy in music, movies, books and all media, new and old. Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in court cases in the area of digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses. In addition to work with music, his networking expertise now includes wireless work in Europe, including a speech at Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and work with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He's moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, including the MP3.com conference in San Diego and parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings. Robin Gross Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation a leading cyber-liberties organization. She specializes in intellectual property policy and digital music legal issues. In June 1999 Robin helped launch EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFÉ) to explore the intersection of intellectual property law and freedom of expression. She frequently speaks and publishes on cyberspace legal issues including copyright and digital music and is the Associate Editor of MELON, the Multimedia and Entertainment Law Online News Website. Currently she is focusing on EFF's impact litigation to challenge the Constitutional limitations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions and Hollywood's attempt to lock up creative expression using technical and legal restrictions. Before joining EFF, Robin gained experience in intellectual property litigation including Internet domain name disputes, trademark, copyright issues and music licensing. A 1998 graduate of Santa Clara University's High Technology Law Program, Robin is licensed to practice law in California. During law school she co-founded Virtual Recordings (www.virtualrecordings.com) with her musician husband. A Michigan native, she graduated from Michigan State University's James Madison College in 1995 with degrees in political philosophy and international relations. Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is a San Francisco based nonprofit organization concerned with the civil liberties, technical and social issues raised by the application of new computing and telecommunications technologies. EFF was founded in 1990 by John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Mitch Kapor to work in that area where technology and policy converge. Over the past decade, EFF has participated in precedent-setting legal cases, worked to ensure that any legislation passed or rules promulgated protect individuals' rights, and led the forefront of public debate over the equitable use and responsible growth of technology relating to privacy, First and Fourth Amendments, and intellectual property issues. In addition to being a legal services and advocacy organization, EFF maintains the fourth-most linked to Web site in the world and one of the largest archives of legal information on the Net. Maureen Harrington Maureen Cohen Harrington is Director of Education for Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. She is the acting Continuing Legal Education Coordinator for the D.C. Bar Association's Arts, Entertainment & Sports Law and Intellectual Property Law sections. She also serves on the Washington Area Music Association's Education Committee. Ms. Harrington is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. While completing her legal studies, she served as the research assistant for Professor Richard H. Chused's A Copyright Anthology: The Technology Frontier. Ms. Harrington also served as a research assistant for Professor Michael Gottesman, for whom worked on contracts and torts issues. She participated in the school's Federal Legislation Clinic, and on the Executive Committee of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Ms. Harrington received her Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Philosophy and in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Maryland at College Park, magna cum laude, with a General Honors Citation. Before joining WALA, Ms. Harrington worked at Goldfarb & Silverberg, researching issues in a copyright infringement action. Ms. Harrington earlier clerked at Bredhoff & Kaiser, where her work included analyzing the potential consequences of proposed legislation on professional sports unions, and at James & Hoffman, where she assisted with the representation of labor union and individual employee clients. Rose Meade Hart Hart Rayner is a New York City based law firm dedicated to representing talent in music and new media. The Firm's founders bring a unique synthesis of experience in both entertainment and corporate transactions enabling them to lead the firm in serving the needs of new media clients. Our services range from intellectual property protection and artist representation to corporate and business counseling including financing issues. Hart Rayner's commitment to its clients is a comprehensive approach to deal making with a focus on maximizing corporate opportunity while protecting creative assets. Hart Rayner's music practice is focused on urban music representing emerging artists as well as industry leaders such as producer Teddy Riley. The Firm's new media and technology clients include Loquesea.com, the largest Hispanic teen network; Automatic Media, Inc., named new media merger of the year by Business 2.0; EAR, a leading online marketing research company specializing in GenY; Internet marketing companies, Iced Media and Virtual Entertainment Marketing; several online record labels; as well as software and technology developers. Hart Rayner was founded by Daniel Rayner and Rose Meade Hart, a transactional entertainment attorney with over ten years experience in the music and entertainment industries. Rose has represented a variety of music industry executives and multi-platinum recording artists such as Mary J. Blige, MC Lyte, New Kids On the Block, Frank Sinatra, Blackstreet, Guy, Shaggy and Redman, as well as independent record labels including Cash Money Records, Lil' Man Records and Hypnotize Minds. In addition to her knowledge of music industry business practices, Rose is fluent with intellectual property laws including copyright and trademark. As a former computer consultant and Internet user since 1985, Rose naturally made the transition into handling new media clients in the early 1990s. She was involved in the initial legal work for online retailer Music Boulevard. Rose has also consulted with major record labels concerning new media projects, advised brick and mortar vendors on e-commerce deals, and lectured extensively on the subject of digital delivery of music. Admitted to practice law in New York and California, Rose holds a Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arizona State University. Rose has appeared on numerous entertainment industry panels including events hosted by Columbia University Law School, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, CMJ Music Conference, NY Music and Internet Expo, How Can I Be Down, NeMO Music Conference and Indie Music Forum. Rose is a contributing author for several music-based websites.
Senator Orrin Hatch Three strong traits serve as the hallmark of Orrin Grant Hatch's life: service, hard work, and perseverance. These qualities have guided him through four terms in the United States Senate, where Senator Hatch has fought and won many important legislative battles on behalf of the American people. Always striving to protect the principles of limited government, tax restraint, and integrity in public service, Hatch has been a leader in developing bi-partisan legislation in such key areas as: balancing the budget; protecting Medicare and Social Security; lowering taxes; and improving health care services for children, seniors , the disabled, and the homebound. While Orrin Hatch is proud of his Senate accomplishments and his work to protect family values, his greatest "family value" is his wonderful wife, his six children, and his 19 grandchildren. He has been married to Elaine Hansen from Newton, Utah, for 43 years. Calling his family his greatest blessing, Senator Hatch hopes his work in the Senate will benefit all American families by creating opportunities and guarding freedoms. Senator Hatch's core values were learned at the knee of his father, a hard-working metal lather, and his mother, a devout woman who encouraged her son's love of literature and the arts. He was born in 1934 to Jesse and Helen Hatch, a family of modest means. The value of working hard was not lost on young Orrin, who toiled in many positions from a young age to help support his family and his education. At different times, he worked as a janitor, an all-night desk clerk in a girls' dormitory, and a metal lather like his father. As a lather, he joined the AFL-CIO. Orrin's childhood was happy, but full of challenges. After losing their home during the Great Depression, his father used a $50 loan and second-hand building materials - including lumber that had been partially burned by fire - to build a home for his family in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hatch has since recalled fondly the Meadow Gold Dairy sign from an old barn that was an outer wall of their home. Despite hard times, the Senator's parents did everything possible to provide opportunities for their children, encouraging Orrin to develop athletic skills such as basketball and amateur boxing, a love of music and the arts, and a passion for the law and our Constitution. The Senator continues to pursue these activities today. He is an enthusiastic booster of the Utah Jazz and the WNBA Starzz as well as Utah's college teams. Hatch's early interest in the arts fostered a life-long love of poetry and music, which he uses to convey his love of God and country through poetry and songs. Over the years, Senator Hatch has written the lyrics for hundreds of songs and has produced or co-produced seven CDs. His music focuses on family, faith and love of country. While Senator Hatch worked hard at creative and athletic pursuits, he was also a very devoted student. He received a bachelors degree from Brigham Young University and a full honors scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh Law School where he was awarded a Juris Doctorate with honors. Since then, the Senator has also received five honorary doctorate degrees from law schools and universities. After receiving his law degree, Senator Hatch became a practicing attorney, first in Pennsylvania, then in Utah, until his election to the United States Senate in 1976. Displaying a characteristic willingness to fight the odds for what he believes in, Orrin Hatch filed to run for the United States Senate on the last day against an entrenched three-term incumbent office holder, Senator Frank Moss. Although Hatch was virtually unknown, he hit the campaign trail with the same enthusiasm he has displayed throughout his life and eventually overcame considerable odds to take a seat in the United States Senate. While serving as a Senator, Hatch has displayed true courage time and time again as he diligently strives to promote conservative principles, fighting hard for a balanced federal budget, relief from excessive federal regulations, tax relief for families and small business, effective measures to get tough on criminals, and a strong national defense. But, at times, Senator Hatch has been a lone voice imploring Congress to "do what is right" for America's families, such as undertaking initiatives on child care and health insurance assistance for low-income children. He has also championed legislation to help people with disabilities participate in society and to battle violence against women. As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Hatch has become a leader in fighting for tougher crime laws, civil justice reform to unclog the courts, and legislation to protect individual property rights. He also takes an active role in the confirmation of all judicial nominations , including justices of the United States Supreme Court, believing that only judicial nominees who demonstrate proper judicial restraint are qualified for our courts. Senator Hatch is privileged to serve on the Senate Finance Committee, where he has been a leading advocate for policies to encourage savings and investment, such as the Capital Formation Act of 1997, as well as other pro-growth tax bills. As Chair of the Subcommittee on Taxation, Senator Hatch has sponsored legislation to repeal the "death tax," reduce capital gains taxes, protect the tax credit for research and development, and reform the IRS. He has also played a key role in enacting the historic welfare reform bill of 1996. Since coming to the Senate, Orrin Hatch has always articulated the need for a strong defense for the United States. In foreign policy, he has always been a conservative internationalist, believing that America's national security was best maintained by a strong and focused involvement in world affairs. During the 1980s, he was one of the most ardent advocates of President Reagan's foreign policy and strongly supported his initiatives, including the strategic defense initiative which led to the end of the cold war in 1989. Since the conclusion of the cold war, Senator Hatch has worked diligently to address the threat of terrorism to American interests. Other legislation the Senator has championed include the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, home health care, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, improved access to generic drugs, reform of food and drug laws, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, and efforts to enhance job training.
Kristin Hersh Kristin Hersh, founder and lead singer/songwriter of Throwing Muses, released her first solo album, the acoustic Hips and Makers, in early 1994. In a bid to gain control over their business affairs, Throwing Muses and Hersh as a solo artist moved from Sire/WB and created a joint venture between their own label, Throwing Music, and Rykodisc in 1996, releasing Limbo, their first album for the label, that summer. Sadly, at the completion of the Limbo tour, Hersh disbanded Throwing Muses, claming that it was no longer economically feasible to continue with the band. Kristin has been laying the groundwork for a totally independent music business life ever since, striving to "wean herself off" a reliance on record label dollars promotion. Ken Hertz There's no denying that the world of entertainment is in the midst of high tech change, as consumers demand instant digital delivery of music, bands want easier access to their fans, and record companies ponder what their new roles will be. While no one's sure exactly how the future will take shape, a California legal team has kept abreast of the action for years. Their willingness to get involved with, and sometimes even guide, the evolutionary process is making waves in the industry. "You have to push the edges of the envelope, and record companies don't want you to push at all," says music lawyer Ken Hertz. With Fred Goldring, Hertz is one half of a law team that through tough negotiation and perceptive understanding of technology's new opportunities, is seeking to change the options, as well as the monetary rewards, for artists. What strikes many observers is that when high tech firms and giant Hollywood companies gather to discuss how the future of media is taking shape, at many times Hertz and Goldring appear to be amongst the only voices truly speaking on behalf of artists. The two started their practice in 1989 as partners in the law firm now called Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman & Warren. LLC. Pushing them forward was the belief that a singular focus on supporting artists would build a solid business and avoid the conflict of interests rampant in the music industry which further lead them to establish Goldring, Hertz, Lichtenstein & Haft, LLP this year. "Generally speaking, we don't represent record companies; we don't represent publishing companies; we don't represent management firms -- we represent artists," says Hertz. (The artists they represent these days would be anyone's envy: Alanis Morissette, Will Smith, Destiny's Child, No Doubt, Boyz II Men, Live and Herbie Hancock, to name just a few.) The notion the team had when they started their practice was to help artists with their career strategies, as opposed to just cutting deals for them; to take time and figure out what the long-term impact would be on an artist's career, as opposed to making deals in a vacuum." "We're in the career business, not just in the deal business," says Goldring. "What we've been trying to do is create opportunities for our clients and help them build and strengthen the brands that they've created." A passion for defending those artists' rights and careers led Hertz and Goldring to look seriously and fearlessly at new developments in high tech, a field filled with promise, but fraught with fear and sometimes bullying from big companies that feel threatened by the new landscape. It's just the kind of challenge that the iconoclastic team seem primed for. Hertz insists that in an industry rigged so heavily in favor of companies, and not artists, the only way to enhance their clients ' careers "is to think outside the box." Their intense focus, and a knack for leaping out of such boxes, led Hertz and Goldring to become as involved as possible in guiding how the industry develops to the benefit of artists. The pair noticed years ago that big changes were afoot, and opportunities were beckoning, and are now prominent pundits, articulating their positions in meetings and industry conferences around the country. "We've been very proactive in this space for years," says Hertz, "from enhanced CDs through multimedia to Internet convergence to online digital delivery." "Embracing the Internet and all the opportunities that the Internet affords is really a natural extension of the philosophy that we've had with our practice since the beginning," adds Goldring. "Our job is to educate our clients so that they understand that these tools and opportunities are now available to them. We also try to educate the executives at companies that our clients are in business with, or want to be in business with, so they understand how this can benefit everybody." "We bring a unique perspective of how the record business works because we represent artists almost exclusively and we've been active participants in discussions affecting where technology will take our business," says Hertz. "I'm probably the only music lawyer not working for a company that participates in the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) meetings. I've been actively participating in this process." When Hertz and Goldring met recently with U.S. Representative Howard Berman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intellectual Property Committee, to discuss the legislative landscape surrounding these new technologies, the congressman remarked that he'd never heard anyone with Hertz's and Goldring's perspective. They are used to that. "There are no lobbying groups for artists," says Hertz "Record companies are having their business models threatened because technology represents a shift in power away from oligopoly ; it disintermediates those who separate artists from consumers. What the lawmakers hear is mostly well-funded lobbyists arguing on behalf of the intermediaries, and calling on the legislature to help defend the current business model." The artist-oriented viewpoint that Hertz brings has been noted in the industry seminars he attends and panels he's moderated. In a field of recording industry representatives who love to announce how much they're doing for artists, Hertz is known to reign in the rhetoric with solid figures -- as well as reasoned suggestions about how the industry could do a lot better. Part of doing better means acknowledging the changing dynamics in the relationship between fans, artists, and the companies that artists work with. Goldring points out that for the first time in the history of the music business, major artists are having to play catch-up. He believes that the erstwhile pied pipers are being forced to educate themselves to connect with high tech trends that their audience are already embracing. "To the extent that record companies can be helpful in helping artists embrace these trends then, great," Goldring says. "But if their business models are standing in the way of allowing their artists to connect with the trends that their audiences are already embracing, then it becomes problematic." Hertz agrees: "We are working very hard to get record companies to see what they're up against, to see it from the artists' point of view and to create a more attractive incentive for artists to be in business with them. Otherwise we have no choice but to pursue strategies that involve artists being in business with themselves and with their fans." Giovanna Imbesi As producer, songwriter and music supervisor Ms. Imbesi has many credits in the film, television and multimedia world. Recent credits include the online hit film "The Agent Who Stole Christmas" (http://www.tuttomedia.com) and music for Creative Planet. December 2000 saw the release of the critically acclaimed solo CD by Vida Vierra "Woman of the Waters" produced by Ms. Imbesi. Her music can also be heard daily on the NBC television network. As a producer of the weekly radio/online show "SP Radio One" (http://www.skaparade.com) she is on the cutting edge of new pop music, new talent and the "next new big thing" (Album Network). She has lent her keyboard skills to records for Patti LaBelle, platinum pop rockers Starship and Night Ranger, Yoko Oginame, and many others, including the man who helped launch her career, Grammy Award winning Narada Michael Walden. You'll hear her classical contributions on The Cutting Edge motion picture soundtrack, as well as her work on blockbuster cues for True Lies, Johnny Mnemonic, and Striking Distance. A classically-trained pianist who graduated summa cum laude, Ms. Imbesi went on to perform with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the Minneapolis Symphony. On the electronic front, she circled the globe as a musical director/keyboardist with Toni Childs, Jeffrey Osborne, Angela Bofill, Dave Koz, Sheila E., Yanni, and ex-Police guitar great Andy Summers. Ms. Imbesi also has traveled to India and Cuba for a series of feature performances that spotlighted her original jazz compositions. In 1985 she founded TuttoMedia (http://www.tuttomedia.com), a company that specializes in music and sound production for film, television, and new media. Ten-plus years and going strong, TuttoMedia's state-of-the-art digital facility has made satisfied customers of Apple Computer, Disney, all three major television networks, and new media companies such as MacroMedia, Time Warner, and Storyopolis. They've also applied their music composition and production magic to several major CD-ROM titles for Aris Entertainment, Voyager, and others. Ms. Imbesi's understanding and experience in the cyberworld has landed her some of the hottest multimedia gigs, ever. In 1994, Ms. Imbesi and TuttoMedia provided on-site music production and supervision for Woodstock '94. Her work with the Woodstock '94 News team was chronicled in the premier issue of Interactivity magazine. Since then, she served as the Musical Director for Macromedia_s interactive extravaganza in San Francisco, as well as Apple's New Media Forum held at L.A.'s famous House of Blues. The latter was capped by an all-star performance that featured Ms. Imbesi, Herbie Hancock, Sheila E., and Randy Jackson among others. Today TuttoMedia continues to develop, produce, and enhance original productions. Past projects include musical work for Paul Allen's Storyopolis (a multimedia storytelling environment created for the children's book Red Ranger), the Interactive Television Conference (sponsored by AT&T, Time Warner, and Silicon Graphics), StoryTime (the interactive children's CD-ROM from Digital Pictures), Gwathmey Siegel (an architectural documentary for New York-based Checkerboard Films), and music composition and production work for the highly-acclaimed MCA children's series The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth featuring over 30 songs penned by Ms. Imbesi. The company is also well known in the advertising community, working with clients such as Mattel, Metropolitan Life Insurance (Peanuts characters), Pacific Bell, Coca-Cola, Nissan and Nestle. They have an ongoing contract with NBC's On-Air Promotion department. Other credits for TuttoMedia include the original music for Apple's Macintosh II computer roll-out, music for Apple's "ScreenSaver" presentation, a performance/ demonstration at the Los Angeles Multimedia Special Interest Group meeting on MIDI, and a high-tech performance at the CyberArts festival in Los Angeles. Ms. Imbesi has found time in the past to tour for Apple as a music technology/MIDI consultant, giving performance/lectures across the U.S., and she's provided similar services for Roland and Fostex, world leaders in music equipment manufacturing. Ms. Imbesi is a Phoundation board member of pho, the music and technology group founded by Jim Griffin. She is an active member of the Los Angeles music community concerning the convergence of music and technology. Martin Irvine Martin Irvine is the Executive Director of the Communication, Culture & Technology Program (http://cct.georgetown.edu) and Associate Vice President for Technology Strategy in the Office of the Vice President of Informations Services for Georgetown University. Martin has an interdisciplinary background: paleography and manuscript research in Greek, Latin, Old English, and French; literary and cultural theory; computing, the Internet, and Web development; media and communications history; speculative science fiction and post-cyberpunk literature. He has been using the Web environment for teaching for almost a decade and now feels out of place in a classroom that isn't networked. Martin's recent research and writing interests include the challenges of technology in higher education and e-learning, internet entrepreneurship, and the social contexts of media and communication technologies. At Georgetown, Martin has chaired the university Information Systems and Computing Task Force, which prepared the way for a new, integrated computing and information technology environment at Georgetown. He also serves on serveral committees and advisory groups concerned with technology and education. He is a founding Board member of the D.C. Technology Council and most recently served as its Secretary. When not attending to administrative and intellectual work, Martin prefers to listen to jazz and alternative music, travel, fill his wine cellar, and go to movies (not necessarily in that order). Martin can be found on the web at http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/. Bill Ivey Bill Ivey was nominated by President William Clinton as the seventh Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in May 1998. A folklorist and musician, he is a staunch protector of America's living cultural heritage and a forceful voice on national arts policy. Since his confirmation, he has traveled extensively, giving over 100 speeches and meeting with leaders and representatives of cultural, business, education and civic groups including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, chambers of commerce and Rotary Clubs. He also has met with over 200 members of Congress to discuss the crucial role of federal arts support for our nation's artists, arts organizations and communities. Through these efforts, Ivey achieved a $7 million NEA funding increase for Fiscal Year 2001, its first budget hike since 1992. Shortly after becoming Chair, Ivey spearheaded the development of a five-year strategic plan for the agency. The plan became the basis for Challenge America, a program that targets support to arts education, services for young people, cultural heritage preservation, community partnerships and expanded access. Under Ivey's leadership, the agency initiated Creative Links: Positive Alternatives for Youth, which supports partnerships between arts organizations and community groups to engage young people through the arts. In addition, ArtsREACH, a three-year project, has extended NEA support to 20 states previously underrepresented in NEA grantmaking through funding cultural planning initiatives by cultural, civic, educational and religious organizations, as well as state and local governments. During Ivey's tenure, the Endowment also has expanded its partnerships with other federal agencies, particularly the Department of Education with which the NEA initiated a media literacy program for young people. Since 1998, the NEA has helped Americans celebrate the new century with a wide range of National Millennium Projects such as the Favorite Poem Project and Continental Harmony. In the spring 1999, Ivey undertook a comprehensive assessment of the planning and stabilization needs of arts organizations by convening leaders from the cultural, educational, technology and business fields in a series of nine colloquia. To further help strengthen arts organizations, he initiated the development of Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities, an extensive Web resource identifying other potential federal agency support for arts programs of nonprofits. In February 2000, Ivey convened America's Creative Legacy: An NEA Forum at Harvard, a 35th anniversary celebration that brought together the past chairs of the Endowment to discuss changes in America's cultural policy. From 1971 to 1998, Bill Ivey was Director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee, an accredited nonprofit education and research center. He is the first Endowment Chair who has developed and run a nonprofit cultural organization. In 1994, Ivey was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, where he was a major contributor to Creative America, an analysis of American cultural life. Ivey also served two terms as Chair of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. A teacher and writer, Ivey was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Studies in American Music of Brooklyn College and taught at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Ivey was born in Detroit in 1944 and grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan and at Indiana University and holds degrees in history, folklore and ethnomusicology. Mark Kates President of Grand Royal Records since early 1998, Mark Kates is a 17-year industry veteran. Prior to Grand Royal Records, he was an A&R executive at Geffen Records, where he signed the multi-platinum Beck, as well as gold-selling Elastica, seminal San Francisco band Jawbreaker, and A3, best known for the theme to "The Sopranos." He also provided A&R guidance to a number of other artists, including: Hole, Nirvana, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sonic Youth, The Sundays, Teenage Fanclub, and White Zombie. Kates Co-Executive Produced the soundtracks for the Grammy-nominated "Beavis and Butt-Head do America" and "Suburbia". Before assuming his A&R duties in '93, Kates founded and oversaw the label's Alternative Promotion department, and helped establish the DGC Records imprint. Prior to Geffen, Kates held positions at independent labels Big Time and Ace of Hearts, and various radio stations. Kates oversees some A&R and domestic and international administration for Grand Royal Records. Artist-owned and artist-run, Grand Royal Records is a full service label distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance and EMI Music Distribution via Virgin Records America. Beastie Boys established the company in 1993. In addition to the multi-platinum Beastie Boys and gold-certified Luscious Jackson, the label markets and promoted a roster of diverse, influential and widely acclaimed artists, such as: At The Drive-In, Luscious Jackson, Russell Simins, and Sean Lennon. Upcoming Grand Royal releases include, Scapegoat Wax, Sukpatch, Bran Van 3000, and the continuation of a series of underground hip hop 12 inches entitled "The Blow Up Factor." Kates has played a leading role in Grand Royal's many online initiatives, starting with the launch of the online store in July 1998, supplemented by MP3 downloads from the Beastie Boys tour that summer. In 1999 GR was the first label to have its own Shoutcast radio station. More recently, Grand Royal released the first album ever simultaneously at the digital format with At The Drive-In, and recently coordinated unprecedented synergy between CBS, MTV, Infinity Radio and Windows Media with an ATD-I download from "The Late Show With David Letterman." Kenneth Kaufman Kenneth M. Kaufman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property, Internet, and e-commerce law, entertainment law, communications law and the evolving new technologies in the computer and entertainment fields. Mr. Kaufman represents a wide range of clients in the online, entertainment and communications industries, including e-commerce companies, new media entrepreneurs, Internet technology companies, Web site operators, software developers, broadcast and cable television networks, television producers, recording artists, authors, and a computer online network. From 1994-1999 he served as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, teaching a course on "Music and the Law." Prior to joining Skadden, Arps, Mr. Kaufman was general counsel of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His extensive experience in the entertainment and communications industries includes service as senior vice president, corporate affairs and general counsel of Polygram Records, Inc. and senior vice president, general counsel of Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc. in New York. He has also served as assistant counsel of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. A frequent speaker and author on issues involving the convergence of the computer, entertainment and communications industries, he is the author of the chapter entitled "Legal and Business Issues for Online Publishers and Content Providers" in the book The Internet and Business: A Lawyer's Guide to the Emerging Legal Issues, published by the Computer Law Association. Mr. Kaufman received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1969 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1972. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, New York, and California. Gerry Kearby Gerry Kearby, age 52, co-founded Liquid Audio, Inc., a leading provider of Internet software and services for delivering music online, in January 1996. Since that time he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and on the board of directors. Prior to Liquid Audio, Mr. Kearby was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Media Systems, a manufacturer of computer-based professional audio equipment from June 1995 to December 1995. From January 1989 until June 1995, Mr. Kearby served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Studer Editech Corporation, a professional audio recording equipment company. As a veteran of the music, pro audio, and computer industries, Mr. Kearby's unique combination of knowledge and experience has proven him an expert in the emerging digital music industry. He first began working in the music industry as a professional sound engineer, managing live performance sound production for popular musicians including the Grateful Dead, Diana Ross, and The Jefferson Starship. In addition, he also has engineered digital editing sessions for artists such as Carlos Santana, Tuck & Patti, and many others. A musician himself, Mr. Kearby has been a percussion arranger and instructor at many of the top music organizations in the United States. Mr. Kearby holds a B.A. in broadcast management and audio engineering from San Francisco State University. Liquid Audio, Inc. is a leading provider of software and services for the digital delivery of music over the Internet. The Liquid Audio solution gives musicians, record labels, Web sites and music retailers the ability to publish, syndicate and securely sell recorded music online with copy protection and copyright management. Using the Liquid Player software, available for free download at www.liquidaudio.com, music fans can preview and purchase downloadable music from the more than 500 affiliate Web sites in the Liquid Music Network. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol LQID, Liquid Audio is located in Redwood City, California.
William Kennard Bill Kennard is committed to making sure that all Americans - no matter where they live, what their age, or what special needs they may have - have access to the technologies that are driving our economy and shaping our society. Kennard has been called, "a consumer advocate for the digital age," fighting to protect consumers in the telecom marketplace and ensuring that they have the information needed to make the best choices for them in a competitive marketplace. The Commission passed strict new rules to protect consumers against slammers, those who illegally switch your phone service without your permission, and levied the largest fine in FCC history against a slammer. Bill Kennard is a champion for competition, believing that a robust marketplace will produce better services at lower prices for our nation's consumers. As chair of the FCC, Bill Kennard has made the Commission an example and advocate for telecommunications competition worldwide. He knows that as the world becomes more closely connected, it is imperative that international standards are set, markets are opened, and that all countries can share in the promise of the Information Age. William E. Kennard was sworn in as Chair of the FCC on November 7, 1997. His term expires on June 30, 2001. A native of Los Angeles, Kennard graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1981. Before becoming chair, Kennard was the FCC's General Counsel, the Commission's principal legal advisor and representative in court. Before joining the FCC, Kennard was a partner and member of the board of directors of the Washington, DC law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand. Chair Kennard is married to Deborah Diane Kennedy. They live with their son, Robert, in Washington, D.C. Brad King Brad King covers digital music, movies, webcasting on the entertainment beat at Wired.com. Before coming to news site, he worked at Wired Magazine while finishing up his graduate work in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His work appears regularly in The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Hit Magazine and MP3 Magazine. Each month in Streaming Magazine, Brad writes a column which breaks down the hot issues of the moment in the streaming audio and video space. He co-hosts a weekly, streaming radio show called Speculations at www.kenradio.com where discussion ranges from new entertainment hardware products to the insider business dealings in the digital entertainment space. Bruce Lehman Bruce Lehman is president of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) headquartered in Washington, D.C. IIPI is a non profit organization dedicated to assisting and educating the global creative community in the use of intellectual property rights as a means of generating wealth. IIPI's primary misssion is assistance to developing countries in harnessing the economic power of intellectual property rights. However, IIPI also has supported United States-based creators. Examples are IIPI's support of the Illustrators' Partnership, a group of the leading professional illustrators in the U.S. and the Performing Artists Society of America, which was formed to assist U.S. performers collect royalties due but not paid to them in foreign countries, particularly in France. Prior to founding IIPI in December 1998 Bruce Lehman served for nearly six years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks of the United States. In that capacity he was the Administration's lead policy maker in the field of intellectual property rights. Prior his appointment by President Clinton, Mr. Lehman practiced intellectual property law for ten years. The first nine years of his career were spent as legal counsel on intellectual property rights to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives. Don Marti Don Marti is technical editor of Linux Journal, webmaster of a new site for an independent band called the Moss Piglets, and main instigator of Burn All MP3s Day. He also plays the bass some, but says "I'm not very good. Any bad guitarists and drummers want to get together in Mountain View, California and jam?" Walter McDonough Walter F. McDonough practices entertainment, technology, and Internet law and specializes in the licensing of intellectual property. He is the current co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Arts and Entertainment Committee. Mr. McDonough was an associate at Codikow, Carroll Guido & Groffman in New York City, one of America's leading music law firms; a former assistant Massachusetts Attorney General; and a law clerk for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts. Michael McMartin Originally from Canada, Michael migrated to Australia in 1971 He started Trafalgar Records and Trafalgar Music Publishing in 1975 along with his partner Charles Fisher, releasing multiple gold and platinum albums by Radio Birdman,1927, Gyan and others. He is still a director of those companies. For three years he was chair of CIRPA (Coalition of Independent Record Producers of Australia). In 1984 he formed Melody Management Pty. Ltd. and has been manager of the Hoodoo Gurus since that time. His other clients include Karma County, Antenna and producers Charles Fisher (Savage Garden, Hoodoo Gurus etc.) and Tim Whitten (Powderfinger etc.) Michael was a foundation member of the Music Managers' Forum in Australia and is presently Director in charge of Professional Development and International Liaison. In that capacity he has represented Australian managers and artists at a number of foreign seminars, conventions and festivals. In January of 2000 he was elected Chair of the International Music Managers' Forum, the umbrella organization comprised of the manager's associations of the ten member countries (Germany, Canada, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, China, Finland, Norway and France.)(www.immf.net) He is also presently on the Board of the PPCA (Australia's Performance Rights Collection Association), MusicNSW, Support Act Limited (the music industry's benevolent oganization), and is a member of the National Project Reference Group for the Australian National Training Package for the Music Industry. Jack Moffitt Jack has been programming since he was six years old, writing everything from games to sound drivers, communications software and cryptography. Jack currently works as an entertainment technology consultant and manages the open-source technology R&D team that is currently working on Icecast, Ogg Vorbis and a video codec codenamed ``Tarkin''. Their goal, which was the same as the original goal of Icecast, is to develop an open framework for multimedia on the Internet that ensures good quality, reliability and interoperability. Eben Moglen Eben Moglen's J.D. and Ph.D. in history were earned during what he sometimes refers to as his long dark period in New Haven. He clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the SDNY and Justice Thurgood Marshall. Before and during law school he was a designer and implementer of advanced computer programming languages at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory and Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Since 1993 he has served pro bono as general counsel of the Free Software Foundation. His writing can be read at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu. C. "Monty" Montgomery Monty is a lead software architect at the Xiphophorus (http://www.xiph.org) company, best known as the author of Cdparanoia and the Ogg Vorbis audio codec. He received his bachelorate in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T in 1994, where he also concentrated in music theory and first began research in digital audio. In 1996, Monty earned a Master of Engineering in computer Engineering from the Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku in Japan where he officially worked in formal verification of software architecture but continued personal research in computer audio, especially compression techniques. His future plans within Xiphophorus include continued audio and video codec work, audio streaming tools and general Open Source and intellectual property advocacy. Francois-Xavier Nuttall Francois-Xavier (FX) Nuttall, Chief Visionary Officer and Founder of AudioSoft, has spent his professional career as a digital audio entrepreneur. Mr. Nuttall started as a free-lance sound engineer and a professor of Electro-Acoustics at the Engineer School of Geneva (Switzerland). Following his studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Geneva, Mr. Nuttall issued a patent related to Digital Audio Compression. He then operated a consultancy service firm in France, focusing on copyright issues in the digital audio domain, prior to establishing AudioSoft in 1996. Consultancy clients consisted of several leading European music industry organizations. Mr. Nuttall is a frequent speaker at international conferences in Europe and North America, and has authored articles such as "Electro-acoustics", "Digital audio subcode channels" and "Existing and future standards and compliance with copyright management" for a variety of music institutions and broadcasting publications. Diane O'Dell Diane O'Dell graduated from the University of Illinois and Regent University School of Law. She recently joined SESAC as Sr. Director of Internet & New Media Licensing, having come from Cole, Raywid & Braverman, a Washington, D.C. broadcast, cable & telecommunications firm. Prior to that she was with Davis & Brynteson in Tidewater, Virginia for several years, where her practice ranged from corporate and entertainment matters to criminal defense and bankruptcy. She is licensed to practice law in Virginia and Tennessee. John Parres John Parres has held a variety of traditional and new media positions. In a career that began in the Warner Bros. Records mailroom, John grew to oversee Bertelsman Music Publishing's Film & TV licensing division, worked A&R at Warner Special Products and managed major and independent label artists on Geffen, BMG and Cargo Records. John was also an early advisor to Michael Robertson at MP3.com, a beta developer for Macromedia, a multimedia producer for Disney Online and an Internet advisor to Michael Ovitz. Most recently John oversaw the development effort for the "Mall-in-every-song" Internet links infrastructure project at AudioTrack Watermark Solutions Corp. John has also dabbled in politics serving at the top of Michigan State's student government and serving as Grassroots Coordinator for Jerry Brown's 1992 Presidential bid. John is a co-founder of Pho, an on- and off-line community of people interested in sharing ideas relating to the convergence of entertainment and technology. Marybeth Peters Marybeth Peters has served as the United States Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994. From 1983-1994 she held the position of Policy Planning Advisor to the Register. She has also served as Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining and the Information and Reference divisions. A frequent speaker on copyright issues, Ms. Peters is the author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976. Ms. Peters received her undergraduate degree from Rhode Island College and her law degree, with honors, from The George Washington University Law Center. She is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia. Ms. Peters is an active member of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, including the Computer Law Section, the DC Computer Law Forum, and the Computer Law Association, where she is a member of the board of directors. Ms. Peters has served as a lecturer in the Communications Law Institute of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and as adjunct professor of copyright law at The University of Miami School of Law and at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1989-1990. David Post David Post is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace, and a Senior Fellow at the Tech Center at George Mason University Law School. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Editor of ICANN Watch (http://www.icannwatch.org), the Cyberspace Law Institute http://www.cli.org), and Disputes.org (http://www.disputes.org). After attending Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986, he clerked with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, spent 6 years practicing intellectual property and high technology commercial transactions law at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and clerked a second time for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the United States. He also has a Ph.D. in physical anthropology and taught in the Anthropology Department of Columbia University (1976-1981). He has published articles on the law of cyberspace in the Stanford Law Review, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, the Journal of Online Law, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Computer Law Reporter, and the Wayne Law Review, as well as several articles on legal theory in the Journal of Legal Studies, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. From 1994 - 1998 Prof. Post wrote a monthly column ("Plugging In") on law and technology for the American Lawyer, and he has appeared as a commentator on the law of the Internet on such programs as the Lehrer News Hour, Morning Edition, PBS' "Life on the Internet" series, All Things Considered, MarketPlace, and Court TV's Supreme Court Preview. During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues (Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide e-mail course on "Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers," which attracted over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica in the band "Bad Dog" (see http://www.mp3.com/Baddog1999/). Prof. Post's writings can be accessed at the Temple Law School web site (http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost.html) or at http://www.davidpost.com. Jon Potter Jonathan Potter has served as Executive Director of the Digital Media Association (DiMA) since its creation in June 1998. Under his tenure, DiMA has grown from its original seven members to more than 75 companies covering all areas of the digital media industry. He has led the strategic development of the association since its inception and is responsible for DiMA's government relations, member services, membership development, and public relations activities. Mr. Potter has testified before Congress on behalf of the association and also serves as its principle spokesperson. Additionally, Mr. Potter was actively involved in the May 2000 creation of EDiMA, the European Digital Media Association. Prior to DiMA Mr. Potter was a consultant and attorney, focusing on technology matters, primarily public policy work associated with the convergence of technology and |
