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 ASCAPs
Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP.
The Enterprises Group focuses on the Societys 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 Offices 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 Stewarts new
band, The Police. Miles recorded John Cale, Wayne County and the
Electric Chairs, Chelsea, The Cortinas, Sham 69, The Cramps,
The Fall, Alternative TV and both The Polices and Squeezes
first singles. In 1978, he recorded The Polices first album.
Miles then independently financed the groups 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-Gos.
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 companys
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 CDTs 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 Destinys 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, Polygrams
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 Goldbergs
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
MTVs 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 1980s
until the early 1990s 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 Associations 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, MoWax, 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 hes
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 Universitys Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
David W. Lightfoot is the dean of Georgetown Universitys
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 bachelors degree from the University
of London, Kings College, and masters 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), Pavlovs 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
Producers 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 Washingtons 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 DiMAs strategic development since its inception,
and currently oversees DiMAs 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. Potters 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, Amys 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.
Amys 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, Amys
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 cant 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 Robertsons diversified performing arts and entertainment
industry interests have embraced the fields of television and theatrical
production and the representation of Canadas 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 Generals 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 industrys 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 communitys
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 worlds 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 Silvermans
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 Boys success story came with the
signing of acts like Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Digital Underground,
House of Pain, and Naughty By Natureall 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 Silvermans 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 Everlasts triple-platinum alternative rock album Whitey
Ford Sings The Blues and his Top Ten Pop smash What Its
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 Mercurys 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 developmentincluding 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 Pennsylvanias 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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