The Future of Music Policy Summit: Panelist Biographies

January 7- 8, 2002 • Georgetown University • Washington, DC
Last update: 06/23/2002 11:37

Chris Amenita
Senior Vice President, Enterprises Group, ASCAP

Chris Amenita is the Senior Vice President of ASCAP’s Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP. The Enterprises Group focuses on the Society’s Internet activities, as well as its investing and partnering in developing technologies and ventures. In addition, Chris 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. 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.

Colleen Andersen
Business Development, Microsoft/MSN Music

Colleen Andersen, Business Development Manager for MSN® Music is responsible for Business Development and licensing with major music content and promotional partners such as labels, rights societies and media companies such as MTV. Andersen was formerly Vice President of Strategic Marketing for MongoMusic.com which was acquired by Microsoft in September 2000. Prior to Mongo, Colleen was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Sony Music and held Marketing and Business Development positions at EMI and Rhino Records. Andersen has a comprehensive understanding of the issues and opportunities for record companies, musicians, consumers and technology companies with the convergence of music into the digital space. Colleen is a graduate of the school of rock in roll, and was a professional musician and vocalist prior to joining the label side of the music industry.

Dagfinn Bach
CEO, Artspages.org

Dagfinn Bach (CEO of Artspages International AS), MA in music, Hamar College of Education and Bergen University (1975-1992). As a pioneer in the online music business, he was the leader of a cluster of very early pilot projects on MP3 in music production and distribution (1991-1993), digitisation of music archives (1992-1994), one of the first mixed-mode audio/multimedia CD-ROMs in 1992. Initiator and co-ordinator of several important European Commission funded projects MUSICFINDER (1993-1996), MUSIC AND MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING (IE 23, 1994-1995) MODE Music On Demand (BIS 2050, 1995 – 199)7. Involved in the development and start-up of JUKEBOX (1992-1996), ARGOS (ESPRIT- 26.984, 1998-1999), and CARO (1998-2000) and is currently the validation and dissemination manager of the MPEG-7 project CUIDADO (IST-1999- 20194) project. Dagfinn was the founder of Artspages International AS in 1999 and has been co-ordinating the set-up of a global network of rights holders and development of a tailored B2B services for securing a sustainable development of the local music and cultural industries. Dagfinn is currently the CEO of Artspages International AS and board member of Artspages China.

John T. Baker, IV
President and Chief Executive Officer, Loudeye Technologies

Mr. Baker brings to Loudeye Technologies, Inc. 17 years of operational, financial and strategic relationship building experience. Most recently, he served as chief operating officer of Digital Media Campus, a venture-backed investment holding company focused on developing and supporting digital media companies.

Prior to Digital Media Campus, Baker was president and chief operating officer of GT Interactive Software, a publicly traded interactive entertainment software developer and publisher where he directed the company's financial, distribution and planning operations, as well as information technology and new business development. In addition, he successfully led GT Interactive's sale to Infogrames Entertainment.
Previously, Baker was a senior executive at Activision, a publicly traded publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software. As the senior vice president of corporate development, he drove merger and acquisition activities, strategic and financial planning, intellectual property licensing efforts and institutional investor relations. Earlier, Baker held senior executive positions in finance, administration and planning at Robertson Ceco Corporation as well as eight years of private equity investment and commercial banking experience.

Mr. Baker received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelors Degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.

John Perry Barlow
Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Born, Jackson Hole, Wyoming October 3, 1947

John Perry Barlow 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.

Jon Baumgarten
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP

Jon Baumgarten is a Proskauer Rose LLP partner, resident in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. (He is also regularly available in the firm's offices in New York City, California, Boca Raton and Europe.) He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor of the New York University Law Review. Jon is widely recognized as one of the country's leading domestic and international intellectual property lawyers, with particular emphasis in copyright matters. He has been named in such peer selections as the publications Best Lawyers in America and International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers and a periodical article "Best Lawyers in Washington," and has anchored the firm's trial and appellate teams in a number of precedent-setting intellectual property cases.

From his admission to the Bar in 1968 until January 1976, and since June 1979, Jon has engaged in private practice, with emphasis on domestic and international copyright, licensing, contract, litigation and related matters pertaining to the publishing, computer, motion picture, music and recording, communications, arts and Internet communities. His client responsibilities in these areas include trade associations and domestic and international consortia, leading American and foreign companies, start-up and emerging ventures, and individuals.

From January 1976 through May 1979, Jon served as General Counsel of the United States Copyright Office. During this period, he was a leading participant in the formulation of the new Copyright Act, was responsible for the preparation of Copyright Office regulations and practices under the new law, represented the Copyright Office before courts and Congressional committees and represented the United States Government in international copyright conferences.

Yochai Benkler
Professor, NYU Law School

Yochai Benkler is a Professor at the New York University School of Law. He is the Director of the Engleberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy, and of the Information Law Institute at NYU. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and cultural production in the digital environment. He has written about rules governing infrastructure, such as telecommunications and broadcast law, rules governing private control over information, such as intellectual property, privacy, and e-commerce, and constitutional law. Professor Benkler teaches information law and policy in the digital environment, communications law, theories of intellectual property, and property law. Before coming to NYU, Benkler clerked for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court, and had earlier been an associate in the corporate practice group of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received his J.D from Harvard Law School and his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University. At both schools he was an editor of the law review.

Tim Bierman
Manager, Pearl Jam's "Ten Club"

Tim brings 20 years of music retail experience to Pearl Jam's management team.

Overseeing the band's fan club ("Ten Club"), which currently boasts a dues-paying membership of 40,000 devoted fans, Tim manages membership, merchandise, fan club singles, official bootlegs and an array of other retail items specifically targeted to the Pearl Jam fan community. Tim also oversees strategy, content, design, marketing and promotional partners for all band related new media, including Pearl Jam's official website, www.pearljam.com.

Before joining Pearl Jam's management team, Tim helped to open Amoeba Records' in San Francisco and served as the senior buyer for the store. Prior to Amoeba, Tim co-founded and managed Rockin' Rudy's Records in Missoula, Montana where he spent 17 years making Rudy's one of the premier independent record stores in the country.

Tim is also a professional musician who has played guitar in numerous bands over the past two decades. Most recently, Tim was a member of the band Clodhopper, which includes Danny Pearson and Tim Mooney from The American Music Club.

Tim is a graduate of the University of Montana (1984).

Eric Boehlert
Senior Staff Writer, Salon.com

Eric Boehlert is a senior writer for Salon.com, where he has written extensively about the music industry. Before Salon, he was a contributing editor and associate editor at Rolling Stone. He's also worked as a reporter for Billboard.

David Bollier
Co-founder, Public Knowledge

David Bollier, an author and civic strategist, is cofounder of Public Knowledge, a new advocacy group that defends the public's interests in intellectual property law and the Internet. Bollier is also a Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication in Los Angeles, and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Bollier's new book, "Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth" (Routledge), will be published in March. The book surveys the wide variety of "commons" in American life -- the airwaves, public lands, the Internet, public information and culture, government research, public spaces, etc. -- that are being privatized and commercialized. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Rick Boucher
Co-Chair, House Internet Caucus

Congressman Rick Boucher is serving his tenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia's Ninth Congressional District.Congressman Boucher is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, serving on two subcommittees - Telecommunications and the Internet; and Energy and Air Quality, of which he is the ranking member. He also sits on the House Judiciary Committee, serving on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee. Since 1985, he has served as an Assistant Whip. He originated the House Internet Caucus in 1996 and currently serves as one of two House co-chairman of the more than 170 member group. In that position he is a leading architect of federal policy for the Internet. His first Internet related legislation, which became law in 1993, authorized electronic commerce by permitting for the first time messages with commercial content to traverse the Internet backbone.His proposals to promote competition in the cable and local telephone industries are at the core of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and he is currently authoring legislation which will establish fundamental federal policies for the Internet. Congressman Boucher, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently resides, earned his bachelor's degree from Roanoke College and his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He has practiced law on Wall Street in New York and in Virginia. Prior to his election to Congress, he served for seven years as a member of the Virginia State Senate.

Jose Bowen
Caestecker Chair of Music and Director of the Music Program, Georgetown University

Professor José Bowen is the first holder of the Caestecker Chair of Music and the Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University. He also taught at Stanford Univeristy, where he received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and at the University of Southampton in England, where he founded the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He has written over 100 scholarly articles and is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting. In over 25 years as a jazz performer, he has appeared in Europe, Israel and the United States with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions and playing are featured on numerous recordings. He has written a symphony (which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), a film score, and music for Hubert Laws, Jerry Garcia and many others. His Jewish music (published by Transcontinental Music) is also widely performed and includes a Jazz Shabbat Service (which has received over 60 performances). He received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England.

Michael Bracy
Director of Government Relations, Future of Music Coalition

Michael Bracy is an associate with Bracy Williams & Company in Washington, DC. 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. In the past year, Michael has spoken at a number of conferences including CMJ, AFIM and Media Institute, and has been a guest at such media outlets as the Diane Rehm show, NPR's Morning Edition, NPR's All Things Considered, KUOW's Weekday and Counterspin.

Paul Brindley
Freelance Journalist/Head of Communications, MPA/MusicAlly

Paul Brindley is a freelance journalist and researcher and Head of Communications at the Music Publishers Association. A musician, having played bass guitar with The Sundays since 1988, Paul combined his musical career with other work for Amnesty International, in the private office of Tony Blair at Westminster before the 1997 election and as a research fellow at the Labourite think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

At the IPPR Paul wrote "New Musical Entrepreneurs", a report into the impact of new technology on the UK music industry, which was published in March 2000. Since then Paul has written widely on the music industry and technology issues for publications including MBI, Music Week and Webnoize.

Paul has recently completed a report on the demand for a music office in the US to aid the export potential of UK music and music companies.

For further information, see www.paulbrindley.com


Jonatha Brooke
Singer/Songwriter

For the scores of fans that have followed singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke's
career over the last 12 years, Steady Pull, her latest release, is a highly
anticipated addition to her much loved discography. For listeners who aren't
yet familiar with Jonatha's sophisticated songwriting and dazzling
musicianship, Steady Pull will introduce them to one of the most exciting
talents of the era. With its funk and rock inspired rhythms and catchy
melodies, Steady Pull is a powerful addition to Jonath'1s already acclaimed
body of work. It's also a testament to her newfound independence. Like Live,
her previous CD, Steady Pull is to be released through Bad Dog Records,
Jonatha's own label. And like Live, Steady Pull promises to reach listeners
through a combination of traditional retail avenues, her web site, and other
on-line ventures.

Musically, Steady Pull combines the raw sensitivity of Jonatha's earlier
work with the wiser, edgier vibe of an artist who is constantly maturing and
evolving. The lyrics evoke sentiments of new beginnings, personal
transformation, and the terrifying, exhilarating rush of venturing into
unknown territory. From the infectious melody of "Linger" to the haunting
waltz of "Your House" to the deep groove of the title track, Steady Pull
constantly pushes the envelope and delivers the kind of high quality, truly
innovative musical experience that is all too rare these days. Steady Pull
is a turning point for Jonatha. She co-produced all twelve songs with
legendary mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain. She is also joined by some
powerhouse guest artists. Michael Franti of Spearhead lends a funky, sexy
vocal part to the title song, and Neil Finn of Crowded House fame,
accompanies her on the exuberant ballad "New Dress."

For more than a decade, Jonatha has proven herself to be the uncommon artist
who is both an authentic talent and a captivating performer. With her former
band, the Story, she made two stellar albums, Grace in Gravity and The Angel
in the House. 1995 brought Plumb, her first solo record, a masterpiece of
songwriting and vocal performance that incorporated a pop sensibility with
her trademark harmonies. In 1997, Jonatha released her second solo album, Ten Cent Wings upping the ante and venturing even further into the pop/rock
arena. Ten Cent Wings was instantly noted; critics singing Jonatha's
praises, and fans singing the lyrics, as soon as the track "Secrets and
Lies" hit the charts. Billboard magazine called Jonatha "one of the most
gifted and unique artists of the decade."

There's something very special about seeing Jonatha perform live. She
develops an intimate rapport with her audience that can make a dance hall
feel like a small coffeehouse. By the same token, her fans cheer so
enthusiastically that a smoky club can begin to sound like Madison Square
Garden. Out of this phenomenon rose Jonatha Brooke Live, a collection of
live performances of songs culled from her earlier albums. Jonatha breathed
new life into these songs, creating grittier, sparser textures so that they
completely transcended their original incarnations. The high profile rave
reviews continued: RollingStone declared, "The world hasn't heard the end
of her."

It certainly hasn't - and not just where music is concerned. Jonatha's web
site has proven to be a remarkable tool in her independent marketing quest,
enabling her to keep in touch with fans, and let them in on her process. On
jonathabrooke.com, the site offers music samples, behind the scenes video
clips, and it will also be running download promotions that will feature
songs from the new album. The site also provides photos, tour dates, and a
posting board for listeners to ask questions and share their own thoughts.
Jonatha regularly responds. And the fans feel involved. As with Jonatha's
songs, they feel like she is speaking directly to them.

Jonatha will be touring extensively behind this release, and there's little
question that her reputation for mesmerizing performances combined with the
broad appeal of Steady Pull will attract her largest audiences ever. With
its peerless songwriting and stellar musicianship, Steady Pull is a stirring
and important work from an artist who makes music that will endure.

Whitney Broussard
Partner, Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz

Whitney Broussard is a partner in the New York office of the entertainment and new media law firm of Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, LLP. The firm represents a variety of music-related entities, including the Wu-Tang Clan, Third Eye Blind, Van Halen, Ludacris, The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, Lit, Linkin Park, Kinetic Records, Suave Records, Caroline Distribution and many others. Mr. Broussard has previously spoken at venues that include NXNW, The Webnoize Venture Forum, NEMO, The MP3 Summit, CMJ in San Francisco and New York, the California Copyright Conference, Cardozo Law School, Fordham University and the first Future of Music Coalition conference in 2001. He has also been quoted widely in the press regarding digital music issues, in publications and programs such as Wired, The Industry Standard, HITS, Webnoize, Billboard, Digital Music Weekly, GQ, The Atlantic Monthly, SonicNet, ACM TechNews, Vitaminic, InfoWar, NewsBytes, Mogulwars, LiveDaily, Spin, USA Today, MBI, CNET, NPR and Tech TV.

Jim Burger
Partner, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson

Jim Burger, a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes & Albertson represents technology companies on intellectual property, communications, and government policy matters. Jim joined the firm's Media, Information and Technology group in January 1997. Before that, Jim was a Senior Director in Apple Computer's Law Department. During nine years at Apple, Jim had numerous responsibilities, including representing the Advanced Technology Group, USA Field Sales organizations, and WorldWide Operations and Manufacturing. He was also General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for world wide government affairs.

From 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights Committee. Jim works and writes extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation. Jim has worked on complex issues such as DVD copy protection and digital download of music - representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD copy protection
rules and the Secure Digital Music Initiative. He has also worked on such efforts to amend copyright law from leading the negotiations to exclude computer products 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. Jim represents a number of online companies on a variety of matters such as compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, music licensing rights, and technology agreements.

A New York City native, 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 Review. Jim was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School. Jim's recent articles are: Wall Street Journal Online, Music Labels' Problems With Copyrights to Continue, (April 2, 2001); Wall Street Journal Online, Can the FCC Fix the Transition To Digital TV? Please Stay Tuned, (January 10, 2001); and Communications Lawyer, Rock 'n Roll Is Here to Stay": Napster and Online Music Distribution, (Spring 2001).

David Carson
General Counsel, United States Copyright Office

David O. Carson is General Counsel of the United States Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. As General Counsel, Mr. Carson is a principal legal officer of the Office, with responsibility for the Office’s regulatory activities, litigation, administration of the copyright law, and providing liaison on legal matters between the Office and Congress, the Department of Justice and other agencies of Government, the courts, the legal community, and other interests affected by the copyright law.

Mr. Carson is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the bars of California and New York. He received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in history at Stanford University.

Mr. Carson has practiced law since 1981 and was a partner with the firm of Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay in New York City prior to his appointment as General Counsel. From 1981 through 1990 he was with the Beverly Hills entertainment law firm of Cooper, Epstein & Hurewitz, first as an associate and then as a partner. In private practice he represented a wide variety of clients, including publishers, authors, composers, recording artists, actors, directors, screenwriters, motion picture and television production companies, and software publishers. In both firms his work centered on copyright and media law, with an emphasis on the publishing, entertainment, and computer software industries.

Ann Chaitovitz
Director of Sound Recordings, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ("AFTRA")

Ann Chaitovitz is the Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ("AFTRA"), the labor union representing recording singers. She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law (JD). Her experience in labor and entertainment includes work as a labor associate at Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, P.C., a New York law firm with large intellectual property and entertainment practices, and as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP"), where she practiced copyright law. She joined AFTRA in 1995 as a National Representative/Staff Counsel, where she focused on copyright and performers' rights issues. Since joining AFTRA, she has overseen the first contingent scale audits conducted under the AFTRA Sound Recordings Code and has participated in intellectual property litigation and Copyright Office proceedings.

She worked, in an alliance with the RIAA and AFM, to ensure passage of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998.

When the record companies had the U.S. House of Representatives put language in a bankruptcy bill that singled out sound recording performers for harsh treatment and denied them rights available to other people who file for bankruptcy, she lobbied against this provision, which was subsequently dropped from the bankruptcy bill in the conference committee. She also lobbied against the record companies to ensure repeal of the recent amendment to the "work made for hire' definition. She lobbied for direct payment of digital performance fees to artists and worked, with other artist groups and the record labels, to change the structure of SoundExchange, so that artists would share control, and to ensure that it pays all artists directly. Internationally, she works to assure that other countries respect the rights of U.S. performers and negotiates with foreign countries' collecting societies to ensure that U.S. performers receive their share of royalties from that country.

Ted Cohen
Vice President of New Media, EMI Recorded Music

Ted Cohen, Vice President of New Media for EMI Recorded Music, is responsible for actively seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for EMI Recorded Music in the New Media field. A well-connected leader in both the music and new media industries, Cohen serves as both a representative and key decision maker for EMI's global new media efforts. Cohen was most recently the Executive VP of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Webnoize 1998 & 1999 conferences. Additionally, Cohen ran two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and several other entertainment, computer and new media organizations. Cohen is a 25-year industry veteran and has served in senior management positions for both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

Richard Conlon
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, BMI

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.



John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Democratic Member, House Judiciary Committee

United States Representative John Conyers, Jr., a Detroit Democrat, was re-elected in November 2000 to his nineteenth term in the U. S. House of Representatives, winning 93 percent of the vote in Michigan's Fourteenth Congressional District.

Mr. Conyers, a senior statesman in American political life, is respected and admired by colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Reserved and studious, he has quietly built a solid record of legislative achievement in his 35 years on the Capitol Hill. Mr. Conyers is the second most senior member of the House and is the Democratic leader on the House Judiciary Committee, where he continues to oversee constitutional, consumer protection, and civil rights issues.

Mr. Conyers is one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus, and is considered the Dean of that group.
The list of legislative accomplishments during Mr. Conyers time in Congress is long and impressive. He introduced the Hate Crimes Act, which would make it easier for federal authorities to prosecute racial, religious and gender-based violence. The Act passed both houses but was not sent to the president: it will be re-introduced in the 107th Congress.

Manus Cooney
Vice President for Corporate and Public Policy, Napster

Manus Cooney is the 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, Manus 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 Chairman, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah. In addition to overseeing the Committee's day-to-day operations, Manus was primarily responsible for the development and stewardship of the Committee's legislative, executive, and oversight agendas. The issues overseen by Manus included: 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
Partner, Entertainment Media & Intellectual Property
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

Mr. Cooper's practice focuses on music industry, motion picture, television, multimedia and intellectual property issues.

Mr. Cooper represents individuals and companies concerning a wide array of matters relative to intellectual property including recording and publishing agreements for individual artists and composers; actor, director and writer agreements; complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs; production agreements on behalf of music, television and motion picture companies and all entertainment issues relative to the internet.

He has guest lectured at Harvard Law School, UCLA 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, the 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.

Miles Copeland
Ark 21 Records

For the past thirty years, Miles Copeland has acted in various roles – as agent, manager and record company. In the 1970s he founded Illegal Records, Deptford Fun City Records and Step Forward, and worked with almost every act in the punk/new wave scene: The Sex Pistols (as agent for the first and only European tour), The Clash (for about three weeks), Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Cherry Vanilla, Generation X (with Billy Idol), Blondie being the first to bring the group to the U.K.), Television, John Cale, Lou Reed, Patty Smith and many more.

He was manager for Squeeze and for his brother Stewart’s new band, The Police. Miles recorded John Cale, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Chelsea, The Cortina’s, Sham 69, The Cramps, The Fall, Alternative TV and both The Police’s and Squeeze’s first singles. In 1978, he recorded The Police’s first album.

Miles then independently financed the group’s first U.S. tour which sent “word of mouth wheels” in motion and which subsequently saw the group become the hottest band in the world. Their success and the novel methods used to break them enabled Miles to talk Jerry Moss (head of A&M) into distributing an U.S. version of his U.K. labels with A&M in the United States, and I.R.S. Records was born. In the next few years the company had hits with The Buzzcocks, The Beat, The Cramps, Wall of Voodoo, Timbuk 3, R.E.M. and a number one album with the all-girl group The Go-Go’s. This formula established the label as one of the most innovative in the business, and, at the same time, The Police rose to greater and greater heights, giving Miles and I.R.S. an immense profile.

In 1984, The Police went into permanent hibernation and Miles carried on managing Sting (as he does to date) through seven solo albums, and continues to work with brother Stewart, who was a member of the popular band Animal Logic (with Stanley Clarke) and now is one of the major soundtrack composers in the movies today.
I.R.S. Records moved to MCA with hits that included the 1989 #1 hit album from the Fine Young Cannibals and highly successful albums from R.E.M. (1982 through 1988). In the 1990, I.R.S. joined the EMI family and had hits with Concrete Blonde, Stan Ridgway, dada, and number one hits in the U.K. with Pato Banton and Doctor and the Medics.

Miles broadened the base of the company in 1987 to take in films with I.R.S. Media, Inc. and has acted as Executive Producer for over twenty-five films to date beginning with the company’s first film, The Decline of the Western Civilization Part II, the Metal Years, One False Move (directed by Carl Franklin and chosen as the Best Movie of 1992) and Tom and Viv which was nominated for two Academy Awards (1995). The film division was closed in 1996 to re-focus the company back to its core business of music.

In 1997 Miles established the independent label ARK21 distributed by EMI worldwide and whose roster included Waylon Jennings, Leon Russell, Liquid Soul, Beautiful South, Belinda Carlisle, Paul Carrack, Howard Jones and Alannah Myles. Subsidiaries of the label include Mondo Melodia (world music), Pagan Records (techno/dance) and Pangaea Records (co-owned by Sting and devoted to soundtracks including Leaving Las Vegas, The Object of My Affection, The Mighty, The Thomas Crown Affair and Red Planet).

Mark Cuban
Founder, Broadcast.com / Owner, Dallas Mavericks

When Mark Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks on January 14, 2000, the face of the organization began to change immediately. Once again Mavericks games had a party atmosphere as Reunion Arena rocked with the return of the "Reunion Rowdies." Mavericks games became more than just ordinary NBA games - they were a total entertainment experience.

Cuban was not only successful at instilling a sense of pride and passion into Mavericks fans by presenting himself as the ultimate role model by cheering from the same seats he has had for the past several years, but he also became the first owner in team sports to encourage fan interaction through email on his personal computer. It was through this personal touch that fans throughout the Metroplex, and around the world, began to notice Cuban's energetic personality and take notice of the Mavericks. He has personally responded to thousands of emails, and several suggestions from fans have led to innovative changes such as a new three-sided shot clock, which allows line of site to the 24-second clock from anywhere in the arena.

Cuban's whatever-it-takes attitude and commitment to winning also has everyone's attention. From his first introduction to the team to the end of his first season as owner, the players responded with a 31-19 record, including a 9-1 mark in April. During his second season, the team made the playoffs for the first time in 11 years and became just the sixth team in NBA history to be down 0-2 and come back to win a five-game series, defeating Utah in the First Round. In addition to hiring special coaches for offense, defense and shooting, Cuban has also promised to do everything in his power to improve the team. This goal was achieved as the Mavericks finished the 2000-01 season with a 53-29 record en route to their first playoff appearance in 11 years.

Prior to his purchase of the Mavericks, Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet, in 1995, selling it to Yahoo! in July of 1999. Before Broadcast.com, Cuban founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe.

Today, in addition to his ownership of the Mavericks, Cuban is an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies and continues to be a sought-after speaker.

Alan Davidson
Associate Director and Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology

Alan Davidson is Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington D.C. public interest group that promotes civil liberties on the Internet. Mr. Davidson currently leads CDT’s projects on Internet governance, free expression, and wireless privacy, and has testified before Congress and spoken widely on computer security and privacy. Trained as a computer scientist before joining the legal community, Mr. Davidson was a Senior Consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and served at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yale Law School. Mr. Davidson is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's graduate program in Communications, Culture, and Technology, where he currently teaches on the policy implications of Internet technical architecture..

Ric Dube
Fenway Recordings

Former media industry analyst Ric Dube is half of Boston independent record company, Fenway Recordings. Prior to joining Fenway, Dube was senior analyst at Webnoize, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based news and research firm. Dube specialized in consumer research; results from his studies have been published worldwide.

An expert on new media, research design, and data analysis, Dube regularly speaks at entertainment and technology industry gatherings worldwide, and is a regular presence in print and broadcast media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Reuters, CNN, MTV, CNET Radio, Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. 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 communication at the University of Connecticut and University of Washington, and managed major research projects for the City of Seattle and RXL Pulitzer.

A published author on the mechanics of persuasion, attitude change, and media credibility, Dube holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His comparatively more palatable writing about rock and roll has appeared in national and regional publications since 1985.

Adam Eisgrau
Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University

Adam Eisgrau joins CCT as an adjunct professor while working for Washington-based, full-service government relations firm, The Wexler Group. Eisgrau brings to The Wexler Group more than 15 years of wide-ranging experience in the private, public and government sectors. As Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) from 1993 to 1995, Eisgrau was intimately involved in many of the most controversial and cutting edge policy issues of the time,including: intellectual property protection, high-tech and general immigration matters, product liability and bankruptcy law reform, as well as the Senate's historic vote to prospectively ban assault weapons. Upon leaving the Hill, Eisgrau joined the American Library Association's Washington Office as the organization's first Legislative Counsel. Through early 1999, he served as the group's principal domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues as Congress and the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")wrestled with the reform of "IP" law for the internet age. Eisgrau also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for the more than 40 public and private sector members of the Digital Future Coalition, representing the Coalition in Geneva at the WIPO's historic 1996 treaty conference and before Congress in subsequent debate over the treaty's implementation. Adam began his Washington career in 1984 practicing communications law with a focus on then-emerging technologies now at the fore of the communications revolution, such as high definition television, satellite radio and TV, and electronic device testing regulation. An expert in Congressional trench "warfare," Eisgrau comes to The Wexler Group directly from Handgun Control (chaired by Sarah Brady), where he oversaw Federal Relations and Public Policy. A native New Yorker, Eisgrau received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984 and graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1980. He and his wife, Shelley, live in the heart of Washington.

Marshall Eubanks
CTO, Multicast Technologies

Marshall Eubanks is a physicist whose background is in the design and use of large networked scientific instrumentation systems for the US government. From 1980 to 1987 he worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as head of a program to provide Earth orientation information for deep spacecraft navigation. From 1987 to 1999 he worked for the U.S. Naval Observatory as head of their Very Long Baseline Interferometry program in support of terrestrial navigation. Besides various awards, his contributions to geophysics were recognized by having an asteroid, (6696 Eubanks), named in his honor. In his government work, he made extensive use of the Internet, which lead him to an appreciation of its potential use in society as a whole, and in 1999 he left the government to co-found Multicast Technologies.

Marshall Eubanks is CEO at Multicast Technologies, where he is responsible for developing multicast applications for broadcasting on the Internet. Multicast Technologies delivers audio and video distribution channels at rates far below the current costs of Internet broadcasting, resulting in significant cost reductions. Multicast Technologies is the first Multicast Service Provider, providing consulting and other assistance for multicast solutions in corporations, campus networks, and on the commodity Internet. Multicast Technologies is also the parent company of On-The-I.com, its ?technology test-bed" broadcasting service using state-of-the-art reliable multicasting. Eubanks is also involved with furthering multicast standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force, and also in protecting multicast against denial of service attacks.

Dave Fagin
The Rosenbergs

David is the singer/guitarist for The Rosenbergs; The New York City "Power Popsters" who played more than a small part in the demise of Universal Music's "FARMCLUB" record label and television show. The band recently signed a deal with King Crimson founder and music maverick, Robert Fripp's label, DGM. The deal is unique as it attempts to provide an alternative to the major label stranglehold by allowing the band to retain ownership of their masters while still receiving tour support, marketing and distribution. The Rosenbergs released 10,000 copies of their record, MISSION:YOU, with a free, full length, "Napster Copy". Coincidentally, major labels have recently started packaging new releases with free multiple song cd's. Being a poster child for artists' rights, David has spoken on the subject at Harvard Law School, Georgetown, the Washington Area Lawyer's Association and countless conferences throughout the country. He recently appeared on the Howard Stern Show with Gene Simmons from Kiss and testified on behalf of the Webcasters at the "CARP" hearings which resulted in an appearance on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter. The band's music can be heard on countless teeny bopper shows about puppy love as well as testosterone filled sport's shows and MTV's "Real World" and "Undergrads". The band's most recent video was directed by Anna Gabriel and Adria Petty. David is not fearful for the band to be more well known for what they say than what they play because President Bush just signed a bill proclaiming their music more important.

David J. Farber
Professor and co-director, Penn Initiative on Markets, Technology and Policy

Prof. Farber is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems holding appointments in the Computer and Information Science Department and in the Electrical Engineering Department.at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition he holds appointments as a Professor of Business and Public Policy of the Wharton School of Business and as a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications.

In January 17,2000, he was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission while on leave from UPenn for one year ending in early January 2001.

At UPenn, he co-directs The Penn Initiative on Markets, Technology and Policy. He also is Director of the Distributed Systems Laboratory -- DSL
where he manages leading edge research in Ultra High Speed Networking. Research papers of the DSL are available in its electronic library (www.dsl.cis.upenn.edu).

His early academic research work was focused at creating the worlds first operational Distributed Computer System -- DCS while at the ICS Department at the University of California at Irvine. After that, while with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware, he helped conceive and organize CSNet, NSFNet and the NREN.

He graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1956 and then started a eleven year career at Bell Laboratories where he helped design the first electronic switching system - the ESS as well as helping to design the programming language SNOBOL. He then went west to The Rand Corporation and to Scientific Data Systems prior to joining academia. At both Bell Labs and Rand, he had the privilege, at a young age, of working with and learning from giants in our field.

In 1999, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering
from the Stevens Institute of Technology where he also serves as a
Trustee of the Institute.

Prof. Farber is a Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- the EFF. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global Communications of Japan -- Glocom of the International University of Japan, a Senior Fellow at ASIA NETWORK RESEARCH, a Member of the International Scvience Review Board of KDRL Singapore and a Member of the Advisory Boards of both the Center for Democracy and Technology and EPIC.

In te past, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet
Society -- the ISOC He served for 10 years of service on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board -- CSTB. He served on the US Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology prior to his assignment at the FCC. He currently is a Member of the FCC's Technological Advisory Council.

He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE and was the recipient of
the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to the computer communications field. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity.

He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100, as one of the Visionaries of the field and was named in the 1999 Network World as one of the 25 most powerful people in Networking.

His industrial experiences are extensive, Just as he entered the academic world, he co-founded Caine, Farber & Gordon Inc. (CFG Inc.) which became one of the leading suppliers of software design methodology. He is also on a number of industrial advisory and management boards including the NTT DoCoMo, ATT Corporate, Fastnet, InterTrust, Com21 and E-tenna among others.

Edward Felten
Associate Professor, Princeton University

Edward W. Felten is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and is director of Princeton's Secure Internet Programming Lab. His main research interest is in computer security, including practical issues relating to media and consumer products. His ongoing research on the weaknesses of copy protection technologies has led to both academic publications and legal threats from the industry.

D. Linda Garcia
Director, Georgetown University's Communication Culture and Technology Program

D. Linda Garcia is the director of Georgetown University's Communication Culture and Technology Program, an interdisciplinary academic program that fosters rigorous critical inquiry into the social, cultural, and political impacts of new information technologies. Dr. Garcia joined CCT in 1996 and served as Research Professor and Associate Director before becoming Director in 2001. 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 - Comparative Government/International Politics and Social Forces from Columbia University, another M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from Syracuse University.

Phil Galdston
Songwriter Member, ASCAP

Phil Galdston is a songwriter/producer who is one of the few in the field to score hits on virtually every major record chart. His songs and productions have appeared on nearly 60 million records worldwide in recordings by artists ranging from Celine Dion to Starship, from Aaron Neville to Cher, from Brandy to Kathy Mattea.

"Save the Best For Last," recorded by Vanessa Williams (which he co-wrote with Jon Lind and Wendy Waldman), simultaneously topped Billboard's pop, r&b, and a/c charts for three weeks, was the number one pop record for eight weeks, and remained on the Hot 100 for more than six months. It was nominated for a Grammy as Song of the Year, was ASCAP's Song of the Year, and also received an ASCAP R&B Award. At well over three million airplay performances to date, it is already one of the classic songs of this, or any, era.

Phil's recent and forthcoming activity includes records by Jill Sobule, Beyoncé Knowles (of Destiny’s Child), Regina Belle, Jaci Velasquez, Brandy, Mikki Howard, and Anita Baker. Phil is the recipient of the Grand Prize of the American Song Festival, two Nashville Songwriters' Association citations, a Cable ACE nomination, five Grammy nominations, and the prestigious "Time For Peace Award" (voted by many of the world's Ambassadors to the United Nations) for Fly, a song he wrote for Celine Dion. He was Songwriter in Residence at the Berklee College of Music and is a member of ASCAP's Advisory Council, a Trustee of The Recording Academy, and the Vice President of its New York Chapter.

Ronald H. Gertz, Esq.
President and CEO, Music Reports

Ronald H. Gertz, Esq., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Music Reports, Inc. (MRI) and Royalty Logic, Inc. (RLI). Mr. Gertz represents many traditional and new media companies in the negotiation of licensing structures for the use of music.

Mr. Gertz is a copyright attorney whose legal practice began with the representation of clients in the television, publishing and recording fields. In 1980, he formed The Clearing House, Ltd., an intellectual property licensing organization that was the predecessor to MRI. He has served as an expert witness in broadcast industry copyright royalty proceedings in the U.S. and Canada and is an active participant in other judicial proceedings (i.e., ASCAP/BMI rate courts and copyright office arbitrations) to establish reasonable fees for the digital transmission of music (i.e., statutory licensing of sound recordings and musical compositions). He is currently Chairman of the Intellectual Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He 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 a past president of the California Copyright Conference. He earned the "Reptile Study" merit badge (among others) from the Boy Scouts of America and has "right wing" opinions regarding the first amendment doctrine of "expressive association".

Mr. Gertz was trained as a classical vocalist and guitarist, and performed professionally in many rock tours. He is also a member of ASCAP and The Society of Composers and Lyricists.

Danny Goldberg
Chairman and CEO, Artemis Records

Danny Goldberg, Chairman and CEO of the newly formed Artemis Records, and President and CEO of Sheridan Square Entertainment, has worked hands on with more popular musical talent than literally any other recorded music executive in the 1990's. He is also one of the very few who has worked with every major genre of popular music, rap, country, folk, classical, jazz, pop, rock, and R&B.

Artemis was formed in June 1999 and has on its roster Boston, Steve Earle, Rickie Lee Jones, Kittie, Warren Zevon, Spooks, and Kurupt, among others. Within seven months of its creation, Artemis placed four albums--rapper Kurupt, singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, hard rock group Kittie, and Steve Earle--on the Billboard charts in 2000, the first time in memory that a new record company had placed four albums on the charts in its first year. Billboard Magazine named Artemis Records the #1 Independently Distributed Record Label of the Year for 2000 based on actual Soundscan sales.

During 1998, prior to the acquisition of Polygram by Universal, Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of the Mercury Records Group, Polygram’s largest U.S. division. Prior to coming to Mercury, Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records in 1995, during which time Warner Bros. was the #1 U.S. record label. In 1993-94, he was President of Atlantic Records, also a division of Time-Warner, which likewise attained the number one ranking among U.S. companies during Goldberg’s tenure. He joined Atlantic as Senior Vice-President in Los Angeles in 1992. Among artists Goldberg worked with at Atlantic and Warner Bros. are Madonna, Neil Young, REM, and Phil Collins. Among those signed under his regimes were Jewel, Stone Temple Pilots, Brandy, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Paula Cole.

From 1983-1992, Goldberg was the principal owner and President of Gold Mountain Entertainment, a personal management firm whose clients included Bonnie Raitt, Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Rickie Lee Jones, and the Beastie Boys.

Goldberg is also one of the most socially active music business executives. In 1980, Goldberg co-produced and co-directed the rock documentary feature, “No Nukes”, starring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Brown. In 1984, Goldberg co- produced MTV’s first voter registration TV commercials. In 1986, Goldberg produced the Rock Against Drugs TV commercials for MTV.

He is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the New York Civil Liberties Union and is the President of the Southern California ACLU. In that capacity and as a spokesman for the music business, he has appeared on the “Today Show”, “CBS Morning News”, “CNN Crossfire” and the “Charlie Rose Show”. Goldberg began his career as a music journalist having written for, among others, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Billboard (for whom he reviewed the 1969 Woodstock Festival). In recent years, Goldberg has written about civil liberties, politics and the music business for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Nation, The American Prospect, Inside.com, and Tikkun.

Goldberg also serves on the Board of Directors of The Nation Institute, Rock the Vote, The Creative Coalition, The Abraham Fund, and Jewish Television Network.

Born in New York, Goldberg lived in Los Angeles from the early 1980’s until the early 1990’s during which time he was on the Board of the Show Coalition and the Hollywood Policy Center. Since 1994, Goldberg and his wife, entertainment attorney Rosemary Carroll, have lived in New York along with their children Katie and Max.

Jim Griffin
CEO, Cherry Lane Digital

Jim Griffin is CEO of Cherry Lane Digital. Cherry Lane Digital is dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and is part of the Cherry Lane Music Group, a creative music publishing company founded by Milt Okun.

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in the media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, 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.

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 and August 2001 before the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Proceeding on Webcasting. 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, 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, ranging from every annual MP3.com conference in San Diego to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.

Robin Gross
Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Robin D. Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading cyber-liberties organization (www.eff.org). She specializes in intellectual property policy and digital music legal issues and serves as Director of EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFÉ), which she launched in June of 1999 to explore the interaction of intellectual property and freedom of expression in a digital world. In addition to public interest litigation, Ms. Gross frequently speaks and publishes on cyberspace legal issues such as digital copyright, the MP3 and DeCSS legal wars, and has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office on the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The editors of the legal newspaper, Daily Journal, selected Ms. Gross as one of California's "Top Ten Most Influential Attorneys in 2001" for her work to advance digital free expression. In 2001 she developed the EFF's Open Audio License that allows musicians to release music and other recordings that expressly permit public sharing in exchange for artist credit.

Currently, Ms. Gross is defending the right of P2P software company Music City to distribute file-sharing software in a lawsuit filed by the music industry in the fall of 2001 that challenges the "Betamax" rule. In November 2001, EFF obtained a unanimous ruling from an appeals court in California over-turning a lower court's injunction and protecting the First Amendment rights of publishers who find information in the public domain from claims of trade secret misappropriation.

Through litigation, Ms. Gross is working on reforming the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, which chill freedom of expression and stifle scientific advancement. In 2001 EFF filed a lawsuit against the recording industry on behalf of Princeton University scientist Edward Felten who studied the industry's digital music control technologies and was threatened by litigation under the DMCA when he first tried to publish his research at a scientific conference. In 2000, Ms. Gross led the EFF into its First Amendment defense of 2600 Magazine, a case in which Hollywood movie studios used the DMCA to ban a journalist from publishing or linking to DeCSS computer code, software developed to create a DVD player for the Linux operating system. She has been publicly critical of the arrest of Russian software programmer Dimitry Sklyarov who faces 25 years in prison under the DMCA for writing software that allows people to exercise their fair use rights with Ebooks.

A 1998 graduate of Santa Clara University's High Technology Law Program, Ms. Gross is licensed to practice law in California. During law school she co-founded VIRTUAL RECORDINGS (www.virtualrecordings.com) an electronic music Web site 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. She can be reached at robin@eff.org.

Konrad Hilbers
Chief Executive Officer, Napster

Konrad Hilbers brings to Napster broad ranging leadership experience in both the technology and music industries. Prior to joining Napster, he served as company Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of BMG Entertainment. At BMG, a $2.2 billion company with 5000 employees in 53 countries, he was responsible for finance, business affairs and legal, strategic development and new technology, and IST (information systems and technology).

Prior to joining BMG, Hilbers spent 5 years working in various management capacities at AOL Europe. As Executive Vice President and COO, he steered the company's growth, overseeing finance, networks, customer service, and technology, with over 1200 employees reporting to him. From 1998-2000, he served as CEO of Compuserve Europe, where he was responsible for its acquisition and integration into AOL, turning around the company's band and migration of its technical architecture.

From 1994-1996, Hilbers served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing in New York. From 1993 - 1994, he was the CEO of VOX GmbH, Koln, a national TV network. He first joined the Bertelsmann family of companies in 1992 as a specialist in corporate development.

Hilbers was educated in Germany and Switzerland and holds a doctorate in business administration.

Bill Holland
Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine

Bill Holland is the Washington Bureau Chief for Billboard. In addition to his news writing on the legislative and regulatory beat, also is known for his enterprising reports on industry practices, for which he has won several prizes, including ASCAP's prestigious Deems Taylor Award in 2001 and 1997. In 2000, he also won a Special Achievement Award from the Washington Area Music Assn. (WAMA) for his year-long coverage of the work-for-hire controversy on Capitol Hill between recording artists and record companies. He is also a veteran singer-songwriter and bandleader, with seven albums to his credit.

Pam Horovitz
President, National Association of Recording Merchandisers

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Pam Horovitz began her career in the music industry in the late '60's working part-time for a local retailer, The Record Shop, while she attended the University of Minnesota. She went on to hold various sales, marketing, and promotion positions in the music and video divisions of Warner Elektra Atlantic before joining the staff of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Video Software Dealers Association in 1985 as director of special projects. She was named Executive Vice President, the top staff position, in 1989. When NARM and VSDA separated in 1990, Horovitz stayed with NARM and was given the title of President in 1996. She oversees all Association programs and activities and is the liaison with the Association’s Board of Directors.

Horovitz resides in Haddonfield, N.J. with a husband, a daughter, and a substantial record collection.

Dick Huey
CEO, Toolshed Incorporated
Independent New Media Consultant to AIM
Consulting VP New Media, The Beggars Group
(4AD, Beggars Banquet, Mantra Recordings, Mo’Wax, Sulfur Recordings, Too Pure, Wiiija Recordings, XL Recordings)

Dick Huey started the new media department at the Beggars Group of independent record labels in September 1998. Since then he’s been responsible for all major New Media related initiatives, site design and architecture, infrastructure, licensing, and promotions for this large UK-based independent label group.

Recently he established a new media consultancy – Toolshed Inc. – which provides New Media consulting and strategy services to a variety of Media and Entertainment clients, including Playlouder.com.

Dick has also been an artist manager for nearly 13 years, and currently manages Daemon Records and Kill Rock Stars recording artist Danielle Howle.

Chris Isreal
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, Department of Commerce

Chris Israel joined the Commerce Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, on November 1, 2001, joining Assistant Secretary Bruce Mehlman at the Office of Technology Policy.

From January 2001 until moving to Commerce, Israel was Deputy Director of International Public Policy for AOL Time Warner, and previously worked as a Senior Public Policy Analyst for Time Warner Inc. beginning in 1997. His experience includes working on high profile policy issues such as the protection of personal data collected on-line, safety of children online and international e-commerce.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Israel served as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Jan Meyers (R-KS) and later with U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). Chris Israel received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and his M.B.A. from The George Washington University.

Peter Jaszi
Professor, Washington College of Law, American University

Peter Jaszi is a Professor at the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., he teaches Copyright Law and International Copyright Law. He also directs the new Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic at my law school.

With several collaborators, he writes a standard textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis), now in its 5th edition. Much of his scholarly writing (included several pieces co-authored with Martha Woodmansee) has been in the area of copyright history and theory.

Recently, however, Professor Jaszi; has been active in various policy debates around the future of copyright, and in 1995, he helped to organize the Digital Future Coalition. Professor Jaszi served as a member of the Librarian of Congress' Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit; he has been a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and currently is a member of the Board of Editors of the the Society's journal.

Peter Jenner
Chairman, AURA

After gaining a First Class Honours degree in Economics at Cambridge University, Peter Jenner became a Lecturer at the London School of Economics at the tender age of 21. His career in academia lasted for your years, after which he left to devote his attention to managing an up-and-coming modern music group which caught his attention.

The band's name was Pink Floyd.

Peter then put on a series of free concerts in London's Hyde Park which culminated with the Rolling Stones in 1969.

Now, after more than 35 years in the music business, the list of clients he has worked with reads like a who's who of musical successes. He has managed Tyrannosaurus Rex (fronted by Marc Bolan), Ian Dury, Roy Harper, The Clash, Hank Wangford, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Michael Franti's Spearhead, Tunisian singer Amina, Baaba Maal, Robyn Hitchcock and Billy Bragg. His most recent signing has been Eddi Reader (the voice of Fairground Attraction). Peter has been looking after Billy Bragg for nearly 20 years.

Peter is also involved with and helped to set up the Music Managers Forum in the UK and subsequently the International Music Managers Forum; an association of about 20 naitonal music managers forums from around the world.

As a result of his work, Peter has helped to found the Association of United Recording Artists (AURA) of which he is the Chairman. AURA is involved with representing featured performers with regards to neighbouring rights (public performance) for recordings.

As a result of this he has become very involved with the issues concerning performers rights, particularly in the context of electronic music distribution.

Rick Karr
Cultural Correspondent, NPR News

Rick Karr has been a cultural correspondent for NPR News since 1999. His reports focus primarily on media, technology, and copyright law. He also tries to come to grips with the craziness that is American culture in that craziest of cities, New York.

Rick was part of the team that launched and produced the NPR weekend cultural magazine show, Anthem, during 1998-9. Prior to that he was a general assignment reporter at NPR's Chicago bureau. He's also worked as an associate producer for All Things Considered and has served as a recording and production engineer for NPR.

Before arriving at NPR, Rick wrote about pop and rock music and pop culture for the UK's New Musical Express and Sounds and for Stereo Review as well as for the SonicNet and Addicted To Noise Web sites in the United States. His first "real job" was as a general assignment reporter and rock critic for The Times, a daily newspaper in Munster, Indiana.

Rick is also a music producer, songwriter, and performer. While living in Chicago, he engineered and produced recordings for independent rock and hip hop acts and played with indie-pop band Tart; his latest musical project is the musicians' cooperative Box Set Authentic. He collaborated with bandmate Joy Gregory on her critically acclaimed 1997 play, My Life in Pop, produced by the Lookingglass Theater Company. Rick and his wife, filmmaker Birgit Rathsmann, co-own the New York film and video production company Vibrations Pictures; its most recent projects include Sweat and Nail Polish, a one-hour documentary on the women of the Hong Kong film industry, and a number of music videos.

Dean Kay
Lichelle Music Company

Dean Kay views the music business from a most unique perspective in that he has been successful in almost every aspect of the business as both a creator and businessperson from the rock revolution to the digital revolution.

As a songwriter, hundreds of his compositions have been recorded including THAT'S LIFE by Frank Sinatra. He was a recording artist for
RCA Records, has performed live throughout the world, appeared daily as a featured entertainer on the nationally televised Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and has produced dozens of phonograph records and radio and television commercials.

From the business side, he has been at the helm of some of the industry's most highly respected and forward thinking music publishing companies, first as COO of the Welk Music Group, a major independent company, then as President of the US division of the PolyGram International Publishing Group and now as President/CEO of his own precedent setting venture, Demi Music Corp - his platform for reinventing the music publishing business and forging a new set of parameters destined to become the industry standards in the digital age.

Throughout his career, Mr. Kay has nurtured the careers of scores of songwriters, recording artists and music industry executives and has consummated innumerable acquisitions including the purchase of over 100 music publishing catalogs involving more than 100,000 copyrights.

For the past several years, he has immersed himself in the workings of Internet with the intent of using his rich experience in the traditional music industry to create a bridge between the industry's past and its future.

Mr. Kay is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and serves as Chairman of its New Technologies Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), as well as the Board of the ASCAP Foundation. Though the years he has been a member of many other music industry Boards including the Country Music Association (CMA), the Academy of County Music (ACM), the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), and the California Copyright Conference (CCC).

Jon Kertzer
Director, Smithsonian Global Sound

Jon Kertzer is the director for Smithsonian Global Sound, under the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. He was previously the director of multimedia for the Experience Music Project (EMP), the highly acclaimed interactive music museum and cultural center in Seattle, Washington. From 1990 to 1997, Kertzer worked at Microsoft, as the manager of the Music Group in Developer Relations at Microsoft, introducing the enhanced music CD to the music industry. Kertzer also served as lead editorial manager for such Microsoft CD-ROM's incuding Encarta, Bookshelf, Cinemania, Musical Instruments, and Music Central. Kertzer has been a university lecturer in music at the University of Washington, as well as a festival producer, promotion manager, label manager, and radio station manager and dj. Currently, he hosts the world music program, "The Best Ambiance" on KEXP-Seattle, which he started in 1984. He serves on the boards of various music-related institutions, including Artspages, One Reel/Bumbershoot, Rakumi Arts, and the Seattle International Children's Festival. Kertzer is a graduate of Brown University and has a M.Mus. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Thomas Lee
International President, AFM

Thomas Lee was a member of the United States Marine Band for 24 years. As the pianist for "The President's Own" Marine Band, he worked closely with six presidents, providing musical support several times weekly for state dinners, receptions and other official occasions.

At the same time, Mr. Lee was interested in the acceptance of military musicians into the union. He lobbied the AFM to change the union policy which kept military musicians from membership. His efforts were successful and in 1978 military musicians were accepted as members.

In 1980, while still on active duty, he was elected to the Executive Board of Washington, DC Local 161-710. Among his duties were assisting in contract negotiations for the National Symphony and the orchestras of the Kennedy Center and the National Theater. He was also elected to be a delegate to the AFM International Convention, where he served on the Finance Committee. He was elected Secretary-Treasurer of Local 161-710 in 1990.

Mr. Lee was elected to the International Executive Board in 1991 and International Vice President in 1995.

Bruce Lehman
President, International Intellectual Property Institute

Bruce Lehman is President of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), a non-partisan, not-for-profit institution, based in Washington, D.C. The purpose of institute is to foster the creation of modern intellectual property systems and the use of intellectual property rights as a mechanism for investment, technology transfer and the creation of wealth in all countries of the world.

In addition to his involvement with IIPI, Mr. Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory Commission to the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the specialized United Nations agency headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. He is President of the U.S. Committee for WIPO. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of VIGIC Services, Inc. a GTCR Golder Rauner Company. GTCR Golder Rauner is the sixth largest equity investment firm in the United States. serves on other corporate Boards, including the Patent & Licensing Exchange, Inc. Also he has served as a consultant for companies such as the Ford Motor Company, Oracle Corp. and the Walker Digital Corporation as well as foreign governments such as the Netherlands and Jamaica.

Prior to joining IIPI, until December 31 of 1998, Mr. Lehman served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks for nearly six years. He was nominated by President Clinton on April 23, 1993, and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 1993. As the Clinton Administration's primary representative for intellectual property rights protection, he was a key player on these issues, both domestically and internationally. At the request of the President, he served concurrently in the fall of 1997 as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which fosters and recognizes the work of America's artistic and creative community.

In 1994 the National Law Journal, the largest selling weekly publication for lawyers, named Mr. Lehman its "Lawyer of the Year". In 1997, another publication, the Washington-based national magazine of public policy, the National Journal, named Mr. Lehman one of the 100 most influential men and women in Washington. The National Journal observed, "In today's Information Age, the issue of intellectual property rights is no longer an arcane concern, but a vital part of U.S. trade policy. Since taking over his current posts in 1993, Lehman has been the Clinton Administration's outspoken voice on such matters here and abroad."

Serving as the head of the U.S. Delegation to WIPO's December 1996, Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and neighboring Rights Questions, he successfully concluded negotiations which resulted in the adoption of two treaties: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. These treaties, by updating international copyright law for the digital age, will greatly facilitate the growth of on-line digital commerce over the Internet. Likewise, Mr. Lehman';s guidance on the development of the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreement, now known as TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property), has enabled American creators and inventors to more easily protect their creations from piracy throughout the world.

Mr. Lehman engaged in streamlining the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to be more responsive and customer-focused. His efforts were recognized by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review as a success story for Government Reinvention. As commissioner, he held a series of public hearings throughout the country to solicit the views and concerns of PTO customers. Feedback led PTO to develop new guidelines for patents in the biotechnology field and establish partnership libraries in Sunnyvale, California, and Detroit, Michigan, to provide better public access to PTO information and services. Mr. Lehman also chaired the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. In September of 1995, the Working Group released Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, which examines the role of copyright law in cyberspace and makes recommendations to fortify copyright protection of intellectual property in the networked environment of the information superhighway.

Phil Leigh
Vice President, Raymond James & Associates

Phil started as our Internet analyst in 1996 and transitioned to Digital Media as the Internet itself became more media intensive. Phil holds an MBA from Northwestern Kellogg School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Industry Conference Participation: Panelist at Billboard Magazine Music & Money Conference (November 2001); Moderator at Streaming Media West Conference (June 2001); Panelist at Broadband Home Conference (April 2001); Panelist at Webnoize Online Music Conference (November 2000)

Serial Industry Reports: Future Developments in Electronic Conferencing (October 2001); Future Developments in Peer Networking (June 2001); Future Developments in Network Efficiency (April 2001); Future Developments in Digital Media (September 2000)

Media Coverage: Appearances on CNBC, CNN, and Fox News; Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Investors Business Daily. Phil has the widest media coverage of all Raymond James stock analysts.

Digital Media Marketing: Hosts a weekly program, Inside Digital Media, at On24.com; Markets MCSI research with Web & Video Conferencing; Help Create Demand For MCSI Products; Uses IP-based Audio & Video Distribution.

David W. Lightfoot
Dean, Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

David W. Lightfoot is the dean of Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. An established linguistics scholar, Lightfoot has published eight books, will publish two more next year, and has been asked by Cambridge University Press to edit the four-volume Cambridge Survey of Linguistics. He also is author of more than 60 articles or book chapters, including five now in press. His honors include invitations to deliver named lectures at home and abroad and a Fulbright Scholarship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, three National Science Foundation research grants, and several University of Maryland research awards. Prior to his appointment, Lightfoot served as professor of linguistic science at the University of Maryland, College Park and chair of the Department of Linguistics. He also has held appointments at the University of Michigan, McGill University, and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and he has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan and institutions in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Lightfoot received his bachelor’s degree from the University of London, King’s College, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan.

Jessica Litman
Professor of Law, Wayne State University

Jessica Litman is Professor of Law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches courses in copyright law, Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. She is the author of the recently published book Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001), and the coauthor with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin of a casebook on Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law (Foundation Press 2001). She has published many articles on intellectual property. Litman has testified before Congress and before the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property. She is a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and a past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. Litman was recently appointed to the National Research Council's Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services. She has served on the program committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. She is a member of the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU, the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts, and the National Writers Union.

Dave Marsh
Journalist and rock critic

Dave Marsh, rock critic, historian, anticensorship activist, and "Louie Louie" expert, has written more than a dozen books about rock and popular music, as well as editing several others. He cofounded Creem, the legendary Motor City rock and roll magazine that helped launch heavy metal, glam and punk, among other styles, and spent five years as an associate and contributing editor of Rolling Stone, where he was chief music critic, columnist and feature writer.

Marsh writes monthly record reviews for Playboy, and for the past decade has written and edited the monthly music and politics newsletter, Rock and Rap Confidential. He has lectured widely on music, politics, and censorship.  He compiled 50 Ways to Fight Censorship (Thunder's Mouth, 1990), and was coeditor with Don Henley of Heaven Is Under Our Feet: A Book for Walden Woods (Longmeadow Press, 1991), essays in honor of Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau, written by everyone from Jimmy Buffet and Jimmy Carter to Janet Jackson and Jesse Jackson.  Marsh also edited the first two editions of The Rolling Stone Record Guide, and Pastures of Plenty, the papers of folksinger Woody Guthrie.

John McCutcheon
President, American Federation of Musicians Local 1000

John McCutcheon is a native of Wisconsin who, as a twenty-year-old college student, ventured into the Appalachian South in search of a big dose of traditional music and never returned. Getting involved in union (Miners for Democracy) and regional issues (anti-strip mining movement, community empowerment and self-determination) introduced John to the hands-on practice of organizing and culture as a political tool. He became involved in the early efforts of to organize musicians co-founding the Southern Mountain Musicians Co-op and served on the charter board of Hey Rube!, the first effort to nationally organize folk musicians. He was a charter member of the New Deal organizing committee, the mother organization of Local 1000. 

He was elected President of Local 1000 in January of 1998. He has  written extensively for the International Musician and currently  serves as co-chair of the AFM's Diversity Council. And, not just  incidentally, he tours internationally playing a mixture of original and traditional music. He has recorded over 25 albums, produced 20 others and has received five consecutive Grammy nominations. John is married, has two musician sons and lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Walter McDonough
General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition

Walter F. McDonough is the General Counsel and one of the four founders of the Future of Music Coalition in Washington, D.C. Among his duties at the FMC, Mr. McDonough coordinates the legal and business research efforts examining inter alia, the collection and allocation of digital royalties in the United States, music royalty systems throughout the world, and changing business models for traditional record labels and music publishers as well as new media companies. He has been interviewed by several media outlets including National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Eye on the Media", the Washington Post, the Industry Standard, Webnoize, Music Business
International, CMJ, and the Boston Globe and he has spoken at MIT,
Northeastern University, CMJ, the Billboard/Media Matrix Plug In Conference, the Harvard Law School Journal of Law and Technology Conference, Canadian Music Week, South by Southwest the National Music Business Educators Conference, Webnoize and the New England Music Organization Conference.

In his other life, Mr. McDonough is an entertainment, Internet, intellectual property attorney in Boston. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Steering Committee, the Co-Chair of the BBA Arts, Entertainment and Sports and Entertainment Law Committee and an adjunct faculty member of Massachusetts Communications College where he teaches entertainment law.

Mr. McDonough was an associate at Codikow, Carroll Guido & Groffman in New York City, one of America's leading music law firms, where he worked on matters for, among others, Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella Records, Rocket from the Crypt, Jawbreaker, Tricky, Mike Watt, Blondie and Sinead O'Connor. He had primary responsibility in the copyright clearances surrounding the Grammy Award winning "Hard Knock Life" by Jay-Z which opened new frontiers in hip hop by "sampling" a composition from the Broadway play "Annie."

A former assistant Massachusetts Attorney General, Mr. McDonough worked on the deregulation of the telecommunication and energy industries in New England. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York. Contact Walter F. McDonough at walter@futureofmusic.org. Mr. McDonough's book on the legal, financial and cultural issues facing the music industry should be completed sometime in 2002.

Eben Moglen
Professor of Law, Columbia University

Eben Moglen is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he has taught since 1987. His JD and PhD 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 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 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 publico as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation.

Kevin Murray
Senator, California State Senate

In 1998, Kevin Murray, after serving two terms as State Assemblyman, was elected in a landslide victory to the California State Senate for District 26. Senator Murray, a Democrat, represents one of Los Angeles County's most culturally and economically diverse areas.

The 56-square-mile district, wholly contained within Los Angeles County, has a population of approximately 750,000. The district is not only larger than a congressional district; it's larger than many major American cities. Senate District 26 encompasses the city of Culver City, as well as the Los Angeles communities of Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Beverlywood, Carthay Circle, Century City, Cheviot Hills, the Crenshaw District, Hancock Park, Hyde Park, Jefferson Park, Ladera Heights, Lafayette Square, Leimert Park, Mar Vista, Miracle Circle, South Central Los Angeles, View Park, West Los Angeles, and Windsor Hills, among others.

Murray, born in 1960, was one of the youngest members to be elected to the State Assembly in 1994, where he served until being elected to the Senate in 1998. He had the distinction and honor of serving alongside his father, Assemblyman Willard H. Murray, Jr. (52nd District-ret.). The father-son pairing marked a first in California political history.

During his tenure in the Assembly, Kevin Murray served in a number of prominent roles, including the Chairman of the Transportation Committee, Assistant Democratic Floor Leader, Majority Whip, and membership on the powerful Rules Committee.

As a member of the Assembly, Senator Murray was well known for his legislative skill pursuing landmark legislation in the areas of civil rights, seniors' rights, women's rights, economic development, and transportation issues.

He continues to pursue an equally diverse agenda in the Senate. Murray is a pioneer in the fight to end racial profiling of minority drivers; to bridge the digital divide by increasing access to computers for the poor; and equal access to quality education for all. Other concerns include protecting individual privacy, identity theft, health care access, and education. Moreover, Senator Murray obtained $700 million for park and recreation facilities in urban communities as part of Proposition 12, the park bond recently passed by California voters. The proposition also included $100 million for Murray/Hayden Urban Parks Program, which specifically earmarks funds for parks and programs for at-risk youth.

Senator Kevin Murray currently serves as the chair of, both, the Senate Transportation Committee and the Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee, Business and Professions Committee, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, Finance, Investment and International Trade Committee, Elections and Reapportionment Committee, Select Committee on California’s Horse Racing Industry, Select Committee on the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Select Committee on the Regulation of Talent Agencies, Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education Kindergarten Through University, and the Joint Committee on Rules.

He is also a member of the California Film Commission, the Democratic National Committee and the California Legislative Black Caucus.

Prior to serving in the Legislature, Senator Murray practiced law in the areas of entertainment, real estate, insurance, and dependency, as well as providing consulting and management services to artists in the entertainment industry. In addition to being a member of the State Bar, Senator Murray is a licensed real estate broker. He also spent several years as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency.

Senator Murray holds a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School (1987), a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University (1983), and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Accounting from California State University, Northridge (1981).

Kevin Murray is a lifelong resident of Senate District 26. He counts as his greatest asset a strong and supportive family that includes his father Willard, his sister Melinda, a Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney and his wife Janice Jamison.

Senator Murray's affiliations include the State Bar, the American Bar Association, the board of Vista Del Mar (child protection and foster care agency), Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, and American Mensa.

Senator Murray's honors and recognitions include the Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Museum Award for Social Change; the California African American Business Communities Award for outstanding public service given by the Black Business Association and the California Black Chamber of commerce; the Culver City Democratic Club Award for dedicated public service; Legislator of the Year as awarded by the State Bar of California; Legislator of the Year as awarded by the California Park and Recreation Society; and the Public Service Award as given by the John M. Langston Bar Association.

Krist Novoselic
President, JAMPAC

Krist Novoselic (No-vo-sel-ich) is the President and Founder of JAMPAC (the Joint Artists and Music Promotions Political Action Committee) and a member of the legendary band, Nirvana. Krist is a dedicated leader on behalf of artists, music fans and music industry professionals alike. As an activists, artist and filmmaker, he continues to champion free speech and the First Amendment. When he is not making music or films, he can often be found rallying the music community around important issues or testifying in front of Congress on behalf of artists and music fans nationwide.

Nirvana was embraced by music fans of all ages and has sold over 40 million records worldwide.

Sandy Pearlman
Vice President for Media Development, Multicast Technology

Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the History of Ideas. New School Fellow in Sociology and Anthropology. Founding Vice President, for A&R and Media Development at EMusic.com. Former Vice President for Media Development at Moodlogic.com. By profession a visionary authority on the convergence of the Film, Video and Music cultures, with, the new culture of technology engendered by the Web. One of the few able to speak with equal authority, both, to, and, for these cultures. Visiting Lecturer on these issues at Stanford and the University of California. Consultant on these issues to overweight multinational entertainment conglomerates, stressing out on declining market share and growing irrelevancy. President and Owner of the seminal American alternative label, 415 Records. Producer, creator, songwriter, manager and theorist for many of the most important bands and musical trends of the last 20 years, Sandy Pearlman is one of the crucial prime movers in the ever tightening embrace of Music by Technology and Technology by Music.

One of the founders of Rock Criticism, he paid his way through school in the early 70s with his writing, actually inventing the term “Heavy Metal, ” along the way, during his sojourn at Crawdaddy magazine. He went on to produce (in some cases literally create) an impressive crew of diverse and uniquely innovative artists with attitude, a discography encompassing: Blue Oyster Cult, the Dictators (the first “punk” record), the Clash (spearhead of the English New Wave), Pavlov’s Dog (the first Goth record), Dream Syndicate (kings of the L.A. Paisley Underground scene), etc. He is currently completing work on the new 100 minute long magnum opus pending release for Space Team Electra. For this work he has received more than 15 gold and platinum records and has been described in the Billboard Producer’s Directory as “the Hunter Thompson of rock, a gonzo producer of searing intellect and vast vision.”

He headed the seminal alternative label, 415 Records: Romeo Void, Translator, Wire Train, Red Rockers, Love Club, Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, etc. In this capacity he acted as executive producer for much of the 415 output. As songwriter he is best known for his association with the Blue Oyster Cult, with whom he virtually defined the whole Heavy Metal genre in the mid to late 70s, writing about half of their catalog, culminating in their 1989 conceptual song-cycle, Imaginos: An album, which has, according to Google, launched 3 new relgions and nearly 1,700 obsessive “All About Imaginos” Web Sites. Recently, Metallica recorded "Astronomy," one of Pearlman's Imaginos songs, for their mega-platinum and/or ultra-Napsterized, Garage Inc.

His management clients have included a who's who of influential artists in their respective genres, including Romeo Void (one of the first New Wave bands), Black Sabbath, Aldo Nova, and again, The Dictators and Blue Oyster Cult. To ensure consistent profitability for these touring artists and their promoters, he pioneered the “mega-tour” stadium format of the 1980s, wherein a package of enormous acts (for example Heart, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Metallica....) travel together, sharing promotional, production and travel costs, a format persisting today with Lollapalooza, Lillith and their spawn. These tours included the enormously successful “Black & Blue” (Featuring Black Sabbath and the Blue Oyster Cult). The classic rock film Black and Blue, which Pearlman produced, was a by-product of these tours.

Sandy Pearlman has recently assumed the position of Vice President for Media Development at Multicast Technologies in Fairfax, VA, in the interest of furthering that company's mission of Web-borne deliverance of highly information intensive streams of media content, most prominently music content, on a reliable and cost effective basis, directly to audiences comprising hundreds of thousands, or, even millions of simultaneous users: The sucess of this "meta-project", it has become increasingly clear, is the sine-qua-non for the flourishing nurture and survival of emerging musicians and film makers in the brave new world now creating itself on the net.

Marybeth Peters
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, U.S. Copyright Office

Marybeth Peters became the United States Register of Copyrights on August 7, 1994. From 1983-1994 she held the p osition of Policy Planning Adviser to the Register. She has also served as Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining and Information and Reference divisions. Ms. Peters is a frequent speaker on copyright issues; she 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 a member of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.,the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, ALAI-USA, the District of Columbia Bar Association, including the Computer Law Section, the DC Computer Law Forum, and the Computer Law Association, currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors.

Ms. Peters, from 1986 thru 1994 was a lecturer in the Communications Law Institute of The Catholic University of America's law school and previously served as adjunct professor of copyright law at The University of Miami School of Law and at The Georgetown University Law Center.

During 1989-1990 Ms. Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jonathan Potter
Executive Director, Digital Media Association

Recently named one of Washington’s top technology lobbyists by Tech Counsel magazine, and one of 25 “Unsung Heroes of the Internet” by Interactive Week magazine, 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 70 companies covering all areas of the digital media industry.

Mr. Potter has led DiMA’s strategic development since its inception, and currently oversees 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 Washington, D.C.-based consultant and attorney, focused largely on intellectual property and technology-oriented public policy issues. During the 1990s he represented and advised clients on the development of several significant legislative accomplishments, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act, the Audio Home Recording Act and the Fairness in Musical Licensing Act.

While practicing law and consulting, Mr. Potter’s clients included computer and consumer electronics companies, investment banks and thrifts, major museums, health insurers, cable and satellite providers, and real estate developers. While in law school, Mr. Potter was a political consultant to several Members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as several tax-exempt organizations.

Mr. Potter is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the University of Rochester.

Ann Powers
Senior Curator, Experience Music Project

Ann Powers is a Senior Curator at the Experience Music Project. She served as a pop critic at the New York Times for four years during the 1990s, and was also a Senior Editor at the Village Voice. The author of "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" and co-editor, with Evelyn McDonnell, of "Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap," she has written for most major music publications and been published in several anthologies. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Eric Weisbard.

Amy Ray
Indigo Girls / Daemon Records

Amy Ray, one half of the duo Indigo Girls and Founder and President of the indie label Daemon Records, has built a career with one foot in and one foot out of the mainstream music industry. Straddling two worlds, Amy’s history as a major label recording artist as well as a leader in the indie music scene yields a breadth of experience in working in very different and often oppositional arenas. Indigo Girls will release their 8th studio album on Epic in February 2002 while Daemon will release two underground artists’ albums and continue to keep an ear to the ground for new and unique indie acts.

Amy’s independent career began in the early 1980's but in 1988, after being an indie band for eight years, the Indigo Girls were signed to Epic. Two years later, seeking balance, Amy started her own independent label, Daemon Records, to provide a non-corporate infrastructure for musicians to produce and release their own music. Grounded in a commitment to community and grassroots activism, Amy’s work as a musician has fueled the indie scene for the past two decades as her work as an activist has supported numerous progressive movements in the US and worldwide.

With Daemon, Amy has nurtured and promoted such artists as the Rock*A*Teens, Danielle Howle, ph Balance, 1945 (formerly Three Finger Cowboy), Rose Polenzani, Gerard McHugh and the Moto-Litas. She has been a featured speaker on the Spitfire Tour, at the Rockrgrl Conference and on panels addressing artists’ intellectual property rights, women musicians in the industry and the need for low power radio stations. Amy released Stag, her debut solo record, which she recorded around the South with various favorite punk bands, including the Butchies of Durham, North Carolina, who joined Amy on a coast-to-coast, do-it-yourself club tour. Others on Stag include Daemon artists Rock*A*Teens, 1945 and Danielle Howle as well as guests Josephine Wiggs (the Breeders), Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) and Joan Jett. The “organically rebellious” nature of Stag is felt in all its songs, which, according to Amy, “deal frankly with my confrontations with the oppressive elements of the music industry, my frustrations with imposed standards of gender all around us, and the shortcomings I see in myself.”

Equal activist and musician, Amy writes, agitates, speaks, performs and organizes on behalf of numerous social justice and environmental organizations, including Honor the Earth, the Low Power Radio Coalition, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and several pro-choice organizations. “I can’t think about what it means to be independent without thinking of activism,” says Amy, “I am made consistent by a commitment to activism.” For Amy, there is an inextricable relationship between her art and activism, making her work relevant to the diverse communities that know her.

Bernice Johnson Reagon
Sweet Honey in the Rock

Bernice Johnson Reagon, composer and songleader in the 19th century Southwest Georgia choral tradition, founded Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. A historian and scholar, Dr. Reagon is Distinguished Professor of History at the American University and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. Her numerous publications include "We'll Understand It Better By and By: African American Pioneering Gospel Composers" (Smithsonian Press, 1992) and "We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock...Still on the Journey" (Anchor Books, 1993), a book chronicling the history of Sweet Honey In The Rock, for which she served as editor.

Dr. Reagon has served as consultant composer and performer for several film and video projects, including two award-winning programs for PBS,"Eye on the Prize" (Blackside Productions) and"We Shall Overcome" (Ginger Productions). Dr.Reagon conceptualized the National Public Radio and Smithsonian Peabody Award winning radio series "WADE IN THE WATER: AFRICAN AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC TRADITIONS." A 1989 recipient of MacArthur Fellowship, Reagon was awarded the Presidential Medal, the 1995 Charles Frankel Prize for outstanding contribution to public understanding of the humanities, by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996, Reagon received an Isadora Duncan award for the score to Rock, a ballet directed by Alonzo King for LINES Contemporary Ballet Company.

Toshi Reagon
singer/songwriter

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Toshi Reagon has steadily built her own career and fanbase. She began performing in Washington, DC over sixteen years ago and hasn't stopped earning the respect of musicians, the praise of critics and the love of fans since. From the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times to Variety to Billboard, Toshi's talent and generous spirit are applauded and celebrated.

Toshi can (and will) show up anywhere with anyone including the Hollywood Bowl with Miriam Makeba and Albita, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1999 tribute to Prince, the Central Park Summerstage benefit/Joni Mitchell tribute with Vernon Reid and Chaka Kahn, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the International African Arts Festival in Brooklyn, or a sing along at her young niece's school. She has shared the stage with Nona Hendryx, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Pete Seeger, Lisa Loeb and many others. Elvis Costello invited Toshi to play with him for his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman after hearing her perform at the Bottom Line in NYC; he then sat as a member of Toshi's band Big Lovely on the show. Chaka Kahn impulsevily jumped on stage to join Toshi when she performed at NYC's Central Park Summerstage benefit honoring Joni Mitchell. Anyone who has seen her perform can attest that Toshi's strong, silky alto, sexy growls, torchy croons, and infectious wails seduces and embraces audiences, and sets them off in a rapturous, hand-raising, foot stomping delight.

Rob Reid
Founder and Chairman, Listen.com

A former garage musician and owner of more than one thousand vinyl albums, Rob Reid is also a seven-year Internet veteran and a critically acclaimed writer about the industry. In late 1998, Rob decided to combine his music and Internet passions by starting Listen.com, the guide to online music.

Rob jumped into the Internet in 1994 when he joined Silicon Graphics. In 1996, he left to write Architects of the Web, a book that chronicles the rise of the Internet as a mass medium. Well received by numerous publications, including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Fortune. Architects of the Web is known as the definitive early history of several of the most important companies that shaped the Web. In 1997, Rob became a principal at 21st Century Internet Venture Partners.

With this strong background in Internet business and entrepreneurship, Rob left venture capital to found Listen.com. The venture-backed company launched onto the online music market in June 1999, and is now widely acknowledged as being one of its leaders. Rob was Listen's CEO until May of 2001, when he became the company's Executive Chairman.

Rob graduated from Harvard Business School and Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Cairo, Egypt.

Brian Robertson
President, Canadian Recording Industry Association

Brian Robertson’s diversified performing arts and entertainment industry interests have embraced the fields of television and theatrical production and the representation of Canada’s recording industry. For over thirty years, he has worked at increasing opportunities for Canadian artists, songwriters and producers.

Mr. Robertson was instrumental in founding the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), the organisation that administers the Juno Awards, and was its President from 1978 to 1983. He was Executive Producer of the nationally televised awards presentations for nine years.

Mr. Robertson represents the interests of the Canadian recording industry through its trade association, the Canadian Recording Industry Association, for which he serves as President. He is also President of the recording industry's rights licensing agency, AVLA.

He was the creator of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards and has been the producer of the presentations since their inception in 1992. The awards gala, which is televised annually on the CBC English and French language networks, successfully showcases the finest performing artists from both Quebec and English Canada.

Mr. Robertson has been honoured by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with its Special Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the Canadian recording industry. He has been inducted into the recording industry’s Hall of Fame and he is a past nominee of the International Montblanc de la Culture Award.

He is currently a Governor of the Corporation of Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall, the Past President of the AV Preservation Trust of Canada, a past Governor of the Shaw Festival, a past Governor of the National Theatre School, a member of the Dean's Committee at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music and a board member of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.

Paul Robinson
Sr. Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Warner Music Group

Debra Rose
Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property

Ms. Rose holds a Juris Doctor degree from Drake University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is licensed to practice in the State of Iowa, and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Before her employment with the House of Representatives, Ms. Rose practiced law at the Des Moines law firm of Parrish, Kruidenier, Moss & Dunn. She represented clients in a variety of areas including criminal defense and tort claims.

Ms. Rose serves as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. The Subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina. Ms. Rose is responsible for assisting in drafting legislation and amendments, organizing legislative and oversight hearings and markups, analyzing and evaluating legislation referred to the Subcommittee, preparing memoranda for and briefing the Subcommittee Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on pending legislation, drafting legislative and non-legislative Reports of the Subcommittee and full Committee on courts and intellectual property issues, and meeting with representatives of government agencies, private industry associations and other interested groups and individuals actively associated with legislation pending before the Subcommittee.

Hilary B. Rosen
President and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America

Hilary Rosen is president and chief executive officer of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group representing the $15 billion U.S. sound recording industry. She was named President and CEO of the RIAA in January 1998, having been with the organization for more than 11 years.

Rosen has appeared on various, influential year-end power lists including Entertainment Weekly's "Annual Power List of the 101 Most Influential People in Entertainment," The Hollywood Reporter's Power 50 (debuting at #10), Washingtonian's "100 Most Powerful Women," and Digital Coast Magazine as on of the 50 most important people in the convergence between entertainment and technology.

A veteran lobbyist on Capitol Hill, Rosen has long been respected for her knowledge of the political and legislative process. Entertainment Weekly describes Rosen as "proven to be an outspoken and articulate advocate for the music industry on hot-button issues ranging from free speech to antipiracy."

Rosen, a founder and Board Member of Rock the Vote, has consistently and forcefully protected the right of artists to deliver their own message without fear of government censorship adn is the recipient of numerous honors for her work on behalf of the First Amendment including, the American Civil Liberties Union's Torch of Liberty. Rosen also directs the RIAA's campaign to educate the public about the voluntary Parental Advisory label, which provides parents with an important tool to use in monitoring their children's musical choices.

Prior to joining the RIAA in 1987, Rosen operated her own consulting firm. She also worked as a vice president for the lobbying firm of Liz Robbins Associates. Earlier in her career, Rosen worked for former governor Brendan Byrne (D-NJ). She has served on the transition teams of U.S. Senators Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). She holds a bachelor's degree in International Business from George Washington University, 1981.

Jay Rosenthal
Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP

Jay Rosenthal is an entertainment and copyright attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP.

A former Copyright Examiner with the United States Copyright Office, Mr. Rosenthal has extensive experience in representing entertainment industry clients both in the United States and abroad.

Mr. Rosenthal's former and present clients include Mya, Salt N Pepa, DJ Kool, The Recording Artist Coalition, SEV, Butch Cassidy, TVT Records, Morbid Angel, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Toshi Reagon, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, 18th Street Lounge Music, Thievery Corporation, Rare Essence, Bill Kirchen, Idol Makers Management, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, the World Folk Music Association, radio personalities Albie Dee, Christina Kelley and Bill Curry, comedian Robert Schimmel and monument maker/sculptor Robert Berks.

Mr. Rosenthal received a B.A. (History) and M.A. (International Affairs) from The American University, a J.D. from The Antioch School of Law, and a LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Rosenthal is an Associate Professor of Entertainment Law at the George Washington University School of Law. He is a Board Member of Sound Exchange, and an Advisory Board member of the Songwriter Association of Washington. He is a vice-president of the Washington Area Music Association and an active member of the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.

Mr. Rosenthal has authored numerous articles on entertainment law, intellectual property, and international law. He is a periodic contributor to Billboard and other industry newsletters and journals. He is the former editor of the International Enforcement Law Reporter, specializing in articles on international protection of intellectual property rights.

Pamela Samuelson
Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems

Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic.

In June of 1997 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Samuelson is also a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Public Policy Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. From 1990-2000 she was a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, for which she wrote a regular "Legally Speaking" column.

In May 2000 she received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Hawaii Law School. Samuelson is currently serving on the National Research Council's Study Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy and previously served on the Council's Study Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the National Information Infrastructure which produced a report entitled "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in an Information Age." In June 2000, the National Law Journal named her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in the U.S.

A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.

Charles Sanders
Counsel and Senior Vice-President of Legal Affairs, NMPA

Charles J. Sanders serves as Counsel and Senior Vice-president of Legal and International Affairs to The National Music Publishers’ Association, Inc., the American music publishing community’s principal trade group, where he has been employed since 1986. Between 1986 and 2001, he also served as Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and Counsel to its licensing subsidiary, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. In those capacities he has participated in private sector drafting and advising on several important pieces of legislation (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Digital Performance Rights in Sound Recordings Act of 1995) and in bringing several major industry litigations (among them the Napster, Farm Club, and CompuServe internet cases).

Prior to that, he served as an associate counsel with Macmillan Publishing and its music publishing division, G. Schirmer Music Publishers, Inc., where he specialized in copyright and First Amendment matters and successfully argued the Jean Harris v. NYCVCB case against prior restraint. He is a former Derenberg/Brown Copyright Fellow at New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1984), and he currently teaches a course in “Ethics” as part of the NYU Graduate Studies Music Business Program conducted in conjunction with the law school.

Sanders is a senior board member of both World Hunger Year and the Native American Music Association, and has produced numerous charitable musical events with performers including Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon. He also has more than a dozen album credits as a musician, and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. A frequent legal commentator in print and on CNN, Sanders is also currently working on a book on U.S. government secrecy, and is a founder and board member of The James Madison Project, a Washington, D.C. non-profit group which renders legal assistance to plaintiffs in Freedom of Information Act suits.

He is an associate member of the U.S. National Ski Patrol and of the 10th Mountain Division Association.

David Sanjek
Director, BMI Archives

Dr. David Sanjek has been the Director of the BMI Archives since 1991. He is also the co-author with his late father, Russell Sanjek, of Pennies From Heaven: The American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century (DaCapo Press, 1996) and the forthcoming book of essays Always On My Mind: Music, Memory and Money (Wesleyan University Press 2002). He has published widely on popular music, reviews on-line for popmatters.com as well as served as the U.S. Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Dr. Sanjek has advised a variety of institutions, including the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Experience Music Project, R&B Foundation and Smithsonian Institution. He has been seen or heard on NPR, the BBC and A&E Biography. He is a board member of the Blues Foundation and won their "Keeping The Blues Alive" award for "Historic Preservation."

Dr. Sanjek's received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington University and taught at N.Y.U., Hunter College, the New School for Social Research and Fordham University.

Cary Sherman, Esq.
Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America

Cary Sherman is the senior executive vice president and general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America. The trade group's more than 350 member companies are responsible for creating, manufacturing, or distributing 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States.

As the senior executive vice president, Mr. Sherman serves as the RIAA's chief legal counsel and represents the interests of the $14 billion U.S. sound recording industry -- the largest market for prerecorded music in the world. Mr. Sherman coordinates the industry's legal, policy and business objectives and his responsibilities include technology, licensing, enforcement, and government affairs issues, among others.

Before joining the RIAA in 1997, Mr. Sherman was a senior partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he headed the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. Mr. Sherman graduated Cornell University in 1968, and Harvard Law School in 1971. His board service includes the Levine School of Music, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, The Computer Law Association, BNA's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, and The Computer Lawyer.

Tom Silverman
President and CEO, Tommy Boy Records

In 2001, Tommy Boy Records will celebrate its 20th anniversary as one of the world’s premier independent labels. In the course of two tumultuous decades in popular music, Tommy Boy founder and CEO Tom Silverman has created a striking success story for himself and his company. In the process, Tommy Boy has earned gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums by such artists as Everlast, Queen Latifah, Coolio, Naughty By Nature, Club Nouveau, De La Soul, Digital Underground, and House of Pain.

In 1981, Tommy Boy was a one-man, singles-only label, riding the first wave of hip-hop and operating from the spare bedroom of Silverman’s Manhattan apartment. Today, the company employs a dedicated 100-person staff (with offices in New York and London) in the diverse genres of hip-hop, dance, rock and gospel.

With an investment of $5,000 from his parents, Tom Silverman released the first Tommy Boy 12-inch single, “Having Fun” by Cotton Candy, in the spring of 1981. It sold well enough to finance a second Tommy Boy 12-inch, “Jazzy Sensation,” recorded in two versions by both Afrika Bambaataa & the Jazzy 5 and by the Kryptic Krew.In addition to Tommy Boy and Dance Music Report, Silverman was soon committed to a new venture. In 1981, Tom and his partners (Joel Webber and Marc Josephson) created the first New Music Seminar as a new kind of grassroots music industry gathering. From humble beginnings, NMS became the biggest and most important convention in the music industry; its com-bination of panels, workshops and live showcases became the model for CMJ and South X Southwest, among other followers.

The next chapter in Tommy Boy’s success story came with the signing of acts like Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Digital Underground, House of Pain, and Naughty By Nature—all of whose debut albums went platinum. Tommy Boy proved that rap and dance, once considered fringe markets, could outsell rock and roll in the American mainstream and garner consistent support in the UK and Europe. In addition to unique artists and great records, Tom Silverman’s innovative ideas about packaging, marketing and distribution of music helped separate Tommy Boy from the pack.

In 1999, the label scored one of the biggest hits in its history with Everlast’s triple-platinum alternative rock album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues and his Top Ten Pop smash “What It’s Like.” That same year, Silverman created Tommy Boy Silver Label as a specialized dance music imprint. His idea paid off when Tommy Boy became the No. 4 dance label of 2000, led by the chart-topping success of resident diva Amber. Tommy Boy Gospel is another custom label, home to such ac-claimed gospel artists as Kim Burrell and Vickie Winans.

John Simson
Executive Director, SoundExchange

John Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange, has been involved in the music industry since his 1971 signing with Perception Records as a singer/songwriter. His career has included a ten year partnership in Studio One Artists, managing country superstar Mary Chapin Carpenter (1988-1995), Steve Forbert (Geffen), Jonell Mosser (MCA), Mike Henderson (RCA), and others. Simson has practiced entertainment law since 1980, and most recently was of counsel to the firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe from 1990 through 1999. He was recently named Executive Director of SoundExchange, the first performing rights organization formed to collect digital performance royalties for sound recording copyright owners and recording artists.

Simson served as Executive Producer of the PBS television special, "Mary Chapin Carpenter Live At Wolftrap", recently worked on the PBS "American Roots Music" special, and Harry Belafonte's "An Evening With Harry Belafonte and Friends". His other television credits include: Sesame Street 30th Anniversary Special and a network special of the April '97 Presidential Summit, "Keeping America's Promise".

Simson has been very active in the Washington, D.C. Arts community and received the "Outstanding Volunteer Attorney Award" from Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts during its 10th Anniversary celebration. He was one of the founders of the Washington Area Music Association and served as its first President (1985-1990). Simson has also served as Vice President of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar's Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Section and as a Board member and Legal Counsel to the Songwriters Association of Washington.

Simson was elected to the Recording Academy Board of Governors in 1997 for the Washington, D.C. Branch, and served three years as a National Trustee of the Academy (1997-2000). He has also served on the Board of the Alliance of Artists and Record Companies ("AARC"), the Washington Area Music Association, Institute For the Arts In Science Education, Inc., Video Culture, Inc. and the Takoma/Silver Spring Thunderbolts. He is a member of the Folk Alliance, the Country Music Association, the Society of Ethnomusicology, the American Folklore Society and an alumnus of Nashville's "Leadership Music".

Simson is currently an adjunct professor of Entertainment Law at American Universityís Washington College of Law, and taught Entertainment Law for two semesters at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law. He has also taught Criminal Procedure at Temple University's School of Criminal Justice, Free Press/Fair Trial at the American University School of Criminal Justice and has lectured frequently on entertainment law and business issues.

Derek Sivers
President, CD Baby

Musician, circus clown, and marketing guru. Derek Sivers founded CDBABY.COM as a "hobby" in 1997 for fellow musicians who wanted to sell their CDs independently. Now CD Baby is the largest seller of independent-only CDs, paying $20,000 a week to its many adoring members. CD Baby provides CD fulfillment for mp3.com, garageband.com, iuma.com, and is partnered with Discmakers and Oasis CD manufacturing.

Ted Tanner Jr.
Audio-Video Architecture Strategist, Microsoft Corporation

Ted Tanner Jr. is currently the Audio-Video Architecture Strategist for the Microsoft Corporation where is working on creating intelligent media computing environments as well as tracking technology developments within the industry. He has held digital signal processing engineering positions at firms such as digidesign, Crystal River Engineering and National Semiconductor, Inc.He was CTO/vice president of engineering for Spatializer Audio Labs and later became Audio Architect for Apple Computer Inc where he worked on future audio and media architectures. He then became vice president of research and development for MongoMusic Inc. where he directed all aspects of machine listening, signal processing research and intellectual property development and mangement. MongoMusic was acquired Microsoft Corp in September 2000.

Mr. Tanner holds a master of science in music engineering from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL and has taken postgraduate courses at a number of universities including Stanford University and the University if California Berkley and at Davis. His most recent academic work was pursuant to a PhD in digital media at the Applied Science Department of UC Davis, Livermore, California where he was researching methods for cohesive techniques for media rendering.

Mr. Tanner has published numerous articles in leading audio magazines and has presented several technical papers at the Audio Engineering Society conferences. He also sits on the Executive Technical Review Committee of the International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT) and is on the Technical Advisory Board for DSP World. Mr. Tanner was the papers chair of the AES 18th International Conference: Audio for Information Appliances held in Burlingame,California in 2001 March and has held vice chair and committee positions within the AES. He is a member of the AES,ASA and IEEE.

Jonathan Tasini
President, National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981)

Jonathan Tasini has been president of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) since 1990. He is the lead plaintiff in Tasini, et al. vs. The New York Times, et al., the landmark electronic rights case won by the plaintiffs in a historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. For fifteen years, he wrote about labor and economics for a variety of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the executive board of the International Federation of Journalists. He served on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, which issued a report on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure. He also serves on the Committee on Arts, Media and Entertainment of the AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees.

Johnny Temple
Akashic Books / Girls Against Boys

Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in two bands, Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak, both of which have released numerous recordings and toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He is also the founder and publisher of Akashic Books, an independent company based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. His writing on music and politics has appeared in The Nation, Punk Planet, Bust, and Alternative Press. He was born and raised in Washington, DC and now lives in Brooklyn.

Michael Tiemann
CTO, Red Hat

Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. He made his first major open source contribution over a decade ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work created world-leading technologies and also informed the first open source business model. In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entreprenurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.

Tiemann is now the CTO of Red Hat, a leading supplier of Linux and Open Source solutions. In addition to his responsibilities at Red Hat, Tiemann serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative, the Embedded Linux Consortium, the GNOME Foundation, the Jabber Technical Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of ActiveState Tool Corp.

Tiemann also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software freedom, including the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the ArsDigita Foundation.

Vivek Tiwary
President/CEO, StarPolish

Vivek Tiwary is the Founder and President/CEO of both StarPolish and Tiwary Entertainment Group (TEG). TEG is a multi-faceted entertainment venture focusing on artist management, marketing consultation, and project production. In addition to numerous music and experimental theatre projects, TEG is one of the initial investors and a Limited Partner in Mel Brooks’ current smash hit Broadway musical “The Producers,” which sold $2.8 million in tickets in its first day (setting a box office record) and which earned 15 Tony nominations and won 12 Tony awards (setting Tony records). StarPolish is a company dedicated to educating and empowering musical artists and provides several free services at www.StarPolish.com including expert guidance on the music business, self-management tools, and exposure opportunities. StarPolish is a collaborative effort between music industry professionals and artists at all stages in their careers-- contributors and advisors range from Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine to Danny Goldberg, CEO of Artemis Records. StarPolish is currently raising additional funds for the launch of three new arms-- a Management Firm, Marketing Company, and Booking Agency.

Vivek has 10 years experience in the arts and entertainment industries, primarily working in music and theatre. Prior to founding TEG in 1999 and StarPolish in 2000, Vivek started and ran the Alternative Marketing Department at Mercury Records, where he recruited, hired, trained, and directed Mercury’s national Alternative Marketing field staff. He also designed and executed national cross-promotions for Mercury with a variety of non-music corporate sponsors ranging from AT&T to Airwalk. Vivek has also held several other record label positions, including Manager of Video Promotion for Mercury Records (working with MTV and VH1), Founder and Director of The Alternative College Marketing Program for SEED Records (then a division of Atlantic Records), and Philadelphia College Marketing Representative for Sony Music Distribution. Through these varied positions, Vivek has garnered significant experience in virtually every aspect of artist development—including radio, retail, press and publicity, video, touring, Internet, lifestyle and street marketing. He has also worked with artists covering the entire musical spectrum, including 311, Jon Bon Jovi, Cake, The Cardigans, Allen Ginsberg, Hanson, Kiss, Korn, LL Cool J, John Mellencamp, The Mighty Mighty BossTones, Nashville Pussy, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Roni Size/Reprazent, Rusted Root, Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain, and Lucinda Williams, to name but a few.

Vivek also periodically runs entertainment industry workshops and guest lectures at various high schools and universities. Among many charitable pursuits, Vivek is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization that uses music and entertainment to complement the healing process. He also sits on the Board of Directors at GAle GAtes et al, a critically acclaimed experimental theatre and art company. Vivek graduated Magna Cum Laude from both the Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences. While in Philadelphia, he was active in the local music scene, booking high-profile for-profit and benefit concerts.

Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition

is the Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. She is also an intellectual, an activist and a musician. After graduating from Georgetown University with an interdisciplinary major in Philosophy, English and Women's Studies in 1990, Jenny co-ran Simple Machines, an independent record label for eight years with Future of Music board member Kristin Thomson. Simple Machines had over 70 releases, the most important of which may have been a 24 page Mechanic's Guide to Putting Out Records which clearly and practically described the process of putting out records and CDs, while educating young artists about the value of retaining control of their work. This guide helped to launch a countless number of independent labels and led to somewhat of a DIY renaissance in the alternative music community throughout the 1990s.

In the past 15 years Jenny has been a composer and performer on at least 12 CDs and dozens of compilation records, singles, and even a musical! These records were released both on Simple Machines and other respected independent labels including Homestead, Sub Pop and 4AD. Her most recent CD will be released October 2001 on Misra Records.

After closing down Simple Machines in 1998 Jenny worked for three years at the Washington Post as a copywriter. She also wrote music and technology reviews for the Post, Village Voice, CNET and a variety of other music and technology publications. Here she began to understand the potential power of technology to transform the lives of musicians. This fascination with technology, when combined with her work organizing musicians to support the FCC's Low Power Radio initiative, led her to join with Kristin Thomson and Insound.com to create an online forum called The Machine in December 1999. At this site Kristin and Jenny began the process of educating themselves and other musicians about the music/tech landscape. They also began to raise critical questions regarding the artist's role in the unfolding technological revolution. After publishing an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, Jenny pulled together a board that wrote and published the Future of Music Manifesto, thus leading to the formation of the organization in June 2000.

In the past year Jenny has spoken about music and technology at Harvard, MIT, Columbia's American Assembly, South By Southwest, CMJ, Comdex, the University of Chicago, Temple University, the NARM Convention, CNN International, Tech TV, London's Net Media, and on NPR. She was recently awarded the honor of one of Internet Weekly's "25 Unsung Heroes of the Web."

Joe Uehlein
Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL-CIO

Joe Uehlein has been a working musician and a member of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) for 35 years, since the age of 13. Joe plays guitar, mandolin, bass, piano, percussion, and sings. Joe is a member of AFM Local 161-710 in Washington, DC, and a member of AFM Local 1000 - a national local of traveling musicians. Joe has also spent his life working in the trade union movement in organizing, bargaining, cultural affairs, legislative and governmental affairs, and most importantly, in the "strategic campaign" arena. Joe's work for the AFL-CIO has included support work for many entertainment unions (SAG, AFTRA, AE, AFM). Joe has played a central role in developing the AFL-CIO's cultural program which has a focus on bringing art into the workplace, developing relationships with those who create and form the popular culture, and in viewing the arts as an integral part of movement work. Joe is also the founding President, and current President of the Labor Heritage Foundation (LHF) - an organization dedicated to promoting trade unionism through the arts, and in using the arts to educate, motivate, agitate and organize.

Brian Austin Whitney
Founder, Just Plain Folks

Brian Austin Whitney founded the Just Plain Folks Music Organization in 1998 with 60 members scattered across the US. In its first 3 years the community has grown to over 13,000 songwriters, recording artists and music industry members across all 50 US States and over 50 countries around the world primarily through positive word of mouth and sheer good will amongst the grassroots "folks" they represent. Through Brian's relentless and passionate leadership, the group has combined the quick and efficient world of Internet communication with good old-fashioned first person human interaction. Brian spends 9 months of the year traveling across North America meeting with thousands of organization members first hand in their home towns, giving him the true pulse of the entire grassroots music community.

With an emphasis on education, motivation, networking, encouragement and sincerity, Just Plain Folks is becoming the role model for a new and dynamic grassroots music community that empowers its members to pursue success both inside and outside the traditional music industry hierarchy and status quo. Using educational newsletters, workshops, showcases featuring literally thousands of members, a team of first class educators and mentors, dozens of local chapters around the world, a deep and active website (jpfolks.com), Just Plain Folks is providing a true alternative and brand new options and opportunities for its ever growing membership.

With their inclusive and sincere motto "We're All In This Together" both the Just Plain Folks Music Organization and its founder Brian actively practice what they preach and always put their actions where their collective mouth is in guiding their community.

Brian Zisk
Technologies Director, Future of Music Coalition

Brian Zisk is a serial entrepreneur focusing on digital music, open source, and distribution technologies. He is a founder and the Technologies Director of the Future of Music Coalition. Brian is also the president of Buzz Makers. Previously, Brian co-founded Green Witch Internet Radio, a pioneer in open source streaming media, and was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development before the company was acquired by CMGI in early 2000. Brian was then named one of the Hottest 25 People in streaming media by Streaming Magazine.

Brian is on the Board of Advisors of Gotuit Media, Angry Coffee, and other technology companies, hosts The Well's San Francisco and Tickets conferences, and writes for various publications, including Streaming Media Magazine. He is active in many influential computer-mediated forums, is quoted extensively in the press, appears on many panels and at industry events, and is an expert at frenzy whipping, brand awareness, and in helping to create new business models. Brian holds a degree in International Business and Economics from the New York University School of Business.

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The Many Futures of Music, Maybe One of them Real
By Jon Pareles
New York Times, January 10, 2002

The Scratchy Record Of the Online Music Debate
At Conference on Future, Stuck in the Old Groove
By David Segal
Washington Post, January 10, 2002; Page C01

Bill May Limit Musician Contracts
By Jeff Leeds
LA Times, January 8, 2002

more press coverage...

Keynote Speakers:

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
CA State Senator Kevin Murray
Konrad Hilbers, CEO, Napster


Panelists:

Chris Amenita
VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP

Colleen Andersen
Business Development Manager,
MSN® Music

Dagfinn Bach
Artspages.org

John T. Baker IV
President and CEO, Loudeye

Jon Baumgarten
Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Tim Bierman
Pearl Jam "Ten Club" manager

Eric Boehlert
Salon.com

David Bollier
Co-founder, Public Knowledge

Jose Bowen
Caestecker Chair in Music and
Director of Music Program, Georgetown University

Michael Bracy
Director of Government
Relations, FMC

Paul Brindley
Freelance Journalist/Head of Communications, MPA/MusicAlly

Whitney Broussard
Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum
and Mintz

Jim Burger
Attorney, Dow,
Lohnes & Albertson

David Carson
General Counsel,
US Copyright Office

Ann Chaitovitz
Director of Sound
Recordings, AFTRA

Ted Cohen
VP of New Media
EMI Recorded Music

Richard Conlon
VP Marketing and Business Development, BMI

Manus Cooney
VP Corporate and Public Policy, Napster

Jay Cooper
Partner, Manatt, Phelps
& Phillips

Miles Copeland
Ark21 Records

Mark Cuban
Founder, Broadcast.com

Alan Davidson
Associate Director and Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology and adjunct professor, Georgetown Center for Communication, Culture and Technology

Ric Dube
Fenway Recordings

Adam Eisgrau
Adjunct Professor,
Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University

Marshall Eubanks
CTO, Multicast Technologies

Edward Felten
Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Princeton University

Dave Fagin
The Rosenbergs

Phil Galdston
Songwriter Member, ASCAP

D. Linda Garcia
Director, Georgetown
University Communication Culture
and Technology Program

Ron Gertz
President, Music Reports

Danny Goldberg
President, Artemis Records

Jim Griffin
CEO, Cherry Lane Digital

Robin Gross
Attorney, Electronic
Frontier Foundation

Greg Hessinger
National Executive Director
AFTRA

Bill Holland
Washington Bureau Chief,
Billboard Magazine

Pam Horovitz
President, NARM

Dick Huey
Consulting VP New Media,
The Beggars Group

Chris Israel
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
U.S. Department of Commerce

Peter Jaszi
Professor, American University,Washington
College of Law

Peter Jenner
Chairman, AURA

Dean Kay
ASCAP

Rick Karr
Cultural Correspondent,
NPR News

Jon Kertzer
Director, Smithsonian
Global Sound

Bruce Lehman
International Intellectual Property Institute

Phil Leigh
Vice President, Raymond James
& Associates

David W. Lightfoot
Dean, Georgetown University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Jessica Litman
Professor, Wayne State University

Ian MacKaye
Dischord Records/Fugazi

Dave Marsh
Journalist and critic

John McCutcheon
folkmusic.com / AFM local 1000

Walter McDonough
General Counsel, FMC

Eben Moglen
Professor of Law, Columbia University

Krist Novoselic
JAMPAC / Nirvana

Sandy Pearlman
VP Media Development,
Multicast Technologies

Marybeth Peters
Registrar, US Copyright Office

Jonathan Potter
Executive Director, DIMA

Ann Powers
Experience Music Project

Amy Ray
Indigo Girls / Daemon Records

Bernice Johnson Reagon
Sweet Honey in the Rock

Toshi Reagon
singer/songwriter

Rob Reid
Founder, Listen.com

Brian Robertson
President, Canadian Recording
Industry Association

Debra Rose
Counsel, House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property

Hilary Rosen
President and CEO, RIAA

Jay Rosenthal
Recording Artist Coalition

Charles J.Sanders
Senior Vice President of Legal and International Affairs, NMPA

David Sanjek
BMI Archivist and Author

Cary Sherman
Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA

Tom Silverman
CEO, Tommy Boy Records

John Simson
Director of Artist and Label Relations, Sound Exchange

Derek Sivers
CD Baby

Ted Tanner Jr.
Audio-Video Architecture Strategist, Microsoft Corporation

Jonathan Tasini
National Writers Union

Johnny Temple
Girls Against Boys /
Akashic Press

Michael Tiemann
CTO, Red Hat

Vivek Tiwary
Star Polish

Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, FMC

Joe Uehlein
Director, Strategic
Campaigns, AFL-CIO

Brian Austin Whitney
Just Plain Folks

Brian Zisk
Technologies Director, FMC