Continental Breakfast and Registration
on first floor of Healy Hall

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

Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
[read speech]

Keynote 1: Representative Rick Boucher
Co-Chair, Congressional Internet Caucus

The State of the Union
The three-year music/tech land grab led to litigation, legislation, and ultimately to consolidation. Many of last year’s sworn enemies are now business partners bringing forward the new models. Will 2002 become the yearthat sees the fruition of digital music’s promises? If so, how will these services benefit citizens and impact musicians’ ability to be compensated on the web?

Moderator: Whitney Broussard, Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum & Mintz
Phil Galdston, Songwriter Member, ASCAP
Mark Cuban, Founder, Broadcast.com
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law, Columbia University
Marybeth Peters, Registrar, US Copyright Office
Jonathan Potter, Executive Director, DIMA
Cary Sherman, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA

Taking Care of Business: Traditional Music Business Models
Do traditional music business models serve musicians, do they serve citizens? A discussion with musicians of the historical, legal and economic structures of the music industry.

Moderator: Dave Marsh, journalist and critic
Jay Cooper, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Dean Kay, ASCAP
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sweet Honey in the Rock
Toshi Reagon, singer/songwriter
David Sanjek, BMI Archivist and Author
Johnny Temple, Girls Against Boys / Akashic Books

Keynote 2: California State Senator Kevin Murray
Chair, Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry

Lunch break

To Legislate or Not to Legislate:
Government’s Role in the Music/Tech Debate
Over the past few years, government has become increasingly interested in the music/tech environment. Legal and legislative analysts will discuss the introduction of MOCA and other legislation, as well as emerging antitrust claims and increased concerns about the impact of media ownership consolidation. But a fundamental question still looms: what should government’s role be in this process?

Moderator: Bill Holland, Billboard Magazine
Ann Chaitovitz, Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA
Manus Cooney, VP Corporate & Public Policy, Napster
Chris Israel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce
Peter Jaszi, Professor, American University, Washington College of Law
Walter McDonough, General Counsel, FMC
Debra Rose, Counsel, House Subcommittee on Courts, Internet & Intellectual Property

Keynote 4: Konrad Hilbers
CEO, Napster
[read speech]

Competitive Licenses
Statutory and compulsory licenses have historically been used to route around licensing log jams. Many artist advocates condemn such licenses for taking the “power of pricing” away from the creator in the marketplace. Are these licenses a good thing, a necessary evil, or a long-term liability?

Moderator: Ric Dube, Fenway Recordings
Chris Amenita, VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP
David Carson, General Counsel, US Copyright Office
Richard Conlon, VP Marketing and Business Development, BMI
Ron Gertz, President, Music Reports
Rob Reid, Founder and Chairman, Listen.com
Charles J. Sanders, Senior Vice President of Legal and International Affairs, NMPA
John Simson, Director of Artist & Label Relations, Sound Exchange

Roadblocks to Copying: A Help or Hindrance to Market Growth
Closed systems, protected CDs, watermarking, fingerprinting, pattern recognition, cryptographic hashes. Do these work in preventing unauthorized distribution of music? Do they need to go hand in hand with legal restrictions, and what do these legal restrictions cause us to lose? Will consumers buy music in protected formats, and will it end up costing the music industry, musicians, and the general public, more than they will gain, and at what cost?

Moderator: Brian Zisk, Technologies Director, FMC
John T. Baker IV, President & CEO, Loudeye
Jim Burger, Attorney, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
Ted Cohen, VP of New Media, EMI Recorded Music
Edward Felten, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Robin Gross, Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ted Tanner, Audio-Video Architecture Strategist, Microsoft Corporation

5:30 - 6:30 PM

Major Label Panel
Music is a tough business, or so the story goes. Most musicians never get a chance at a label deal, and those that do manage to get one fail more often than they succeed. How did we get here? What historic forces came together to establish the traditional label model and how has it changed over the past 100 years? A panel of industry veterans discuss historic impediments to creation, success stories, structural failures, and strategies for survival in the emerging digital environment.

Moderator: Eric Boehlert, Salon.com
Ted Cohen, VP of New Media, EMI Recorded Music
Miles Copeland, Ark21 Records
Danny Goldberg, President, Artemis Records
Hilary Rosen, President and CEO, RIAA
Tom Silverman, CEO, Tommy Boy Records

Cocktail Party hosted by ASCAP
Georgetown University Conference Center, Salon H
Marriott Hotel, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057

ASCAP invites you to this cocktail party, featuring a special performance by Bad Dog Recording Artist Jonatha Brooke.

RSVP: Palumbo & Cerrell (202) 466-9000

Monday Night Concert!

LAST TRAIN HOME

LESTER CHAMBERS
of the Chambers Brothers

DANIELLE HOWLE

Gaston Hall • Georgetown University
Doors at 8:00 PM
Tickets $5 at door
Conference registrants get in for free
All ages
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Post-conference
quicklinks

Press Coverage
List of Participants
Notes, Speeches, CLE info
Archived Webcasts
Monday's Schedule
Tuesday's Schedule
Panelist Bios
Online evaluation form

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

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

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

more press coverage...

Keynote Speakers:

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


Panelists:

Chris Amenita
VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP

Colleen Andersen
Business Development Manager,
MSN® Music

Dagfinn Bach
Artspages.org

John T. Baker IV
President and CEO, Loudeye

Jon Baumgarten
Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Tim Bierman
Pearl Jam "Ten Club" manager

Eric Boehlert
Salon.com

David Bollier
Co-founder, Public Knowledge

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

Michael Bracy
Director of Government
Relations, FMC

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

Whitney Broussard
Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum
and Mintz

Jim Burger
Attorney, Dow,
Lohnes & Albertson

David Carson
General Counsel,
US Copyright Office

Ann Chaitovitz
Director of Sound
Recordings, AFTRA

Ted Cohen
VP of New Media
EMI Recorded Music

Richard Conlon
VP Marketing and Business Development, BMI

Manus Cooney
VP Corporate and Public Policy, Napster

Jay Cooper
Partner, Manatt, Phelps
& Phillips

Miles Copeland
Ark21 Records

Mark Cuban
Founder, Broadcast.com

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

Ric Dube
Fenway Recordings

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

Marshall Eubanks
CTO, Multicast Technologies

Edward Felten
Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Princeton University

Dave Fagin
The Rosenbergs

Phil Galdston
Songwriter Member, ASCAP

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

Ron Gertz
President, Music Reports

Danny Goldberg
President, Artemis Records

Jim Griffin
CEO, Cherry Lane Digital

Robin Gross
Attorney, Electronic
Frontier Foundation

Greg Hessinger
National Executive Director
AFTRA

Bill Holland
Washington Bureau Chief,
Billboard Magazine

Pam Horovitz
President, NARM

Dick Huey
Consulting VP New Media,
The Beggars Group

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

Peter Jaszi
Professor, American University,Washington
College of Law

Peter Jenner
Chairman, AURA

Dean Kay
ASCAP

Rick Karr
Cultural Correspondent,
NPR News

Jon Kertzer
Director, Smithsonian
Global Sound

Bruce Lehman
International Intellectual Property Institute

Phil Leigh
Vice President, Raymond James
& Associates

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

Jessica Litman
Professor, Wayne State University

Ian MacKaye
Dischord Records/Fugazi

Dave Marsh
Journalist and critic

John McCutcheon
folkmusic.com / AFM local 1000

Walter McDonough
General Counsel, FMC

Eben Moglen
Professor of Law, Columbia University

Krist Novoselic
JAMPAC / Nirvana

Sandy Pearlman
VP Media Development,
Multicast Technologies

Marybeth Peters
Registrar, US Copyright Office

Jonathan Potter
Executive Director, DIMA

Ann Powers
Experience Music Project

Amy Ray
Indigo Girls / Daemon Records

Bernice Johnson Reagon
Sweet Honey in the Rock

Toshi Reagon
singer/songwriter

Rob Reid
Founder, Listen.com

Brian Robertson
President, Canadian Recording
Industry Association

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

Hilary Rosen
President and CEO, RIAA

Jay Rosenthal
Recording Artist Coalition

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

David Sanjek
BMI Archivist and Author

Cary Sherman
Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA

Tom Silverman
CEO, Tommy Boy Records

John Simson
Director of Artist and Label Relations, Sound Exchange

Derek Sivers
CD Baby

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

Jonathan Tasini
National Writers Union

Johnny Temple
Girls Against Boys /
Akashic Press

Michael Tiemann
CTO, Red Hat

Vivek Tiwary
Star Polish

Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, FMC

Joe Uehlein
Director, Strategic
Campaigns, AFL-CIO

Brian Austin Whitney
Just Plain Folks

Brian Zisk
Technologies Director, FMC