Panelist Bios

Lee Abrams
Chief Programming Officer, XM Satellite Radio
XM’s Senior Vice President and Chief Programming Officer, Lee Abrams, has been shaping the American radio industry for over three decades. During the past 37 years, he has brought unparalleled ratings and economic success to radio stations in over 200 markets, including 97 of the top 100. Winning 318 programming battles, while losing only 11. In 1993, Newsweek listed Abrams as one of America’s “100 Cultural Elite” for his contributions to creating the modern radio; and Radio Ink listed Abrams as one of the 75 most inportant radio figures of all time.

Abrams joined XM in June 1998 to help create the next generation of radio: satellite direct radio. With 100 stations to develop and program, Abrams is once again challenged to reinvigorate the radio landscape.

As a founding partner of Burkhart/Abrams, the Atlanta-based consulting giant, Abrams invented and built Album Rock, the first successful FM format. He also designed numerous other highly successful radio formats including the first Classic Rock format at San Francisco’s KFOG; the first FM Urban/Dance format at New York’s WKTU, the first New Age/Jazz format. In addition, he created the original blueprint for the NBC Source Network. His corporate clients have included every major broadcast group.

In 1989, Abrams joined ABC Radio Networks as an internal consultant and oversaw the revolutionary Z-Rock format, which was the first satellite delivered Superstation, as well as being the first “Active Rock” format, and was instrumental in the launch of Radio Disney.

Musically, Abrams produced the Grammy-winning CD “Ah Via Musicom” by Eric Johnson, has appeared on several Alan Parsons Project CD’s, and worked with major labels and recording artists as a consultant and label head. Among his clients have been great industry leaders, such as The Moody Blues, Yes, Steve Winwood, Iron Maiden, Bob Seger and EMI Records.

Abrams’ other media projects have included the redesign of Rolling Stone magazine, the launch of TNT Cable Network, MTV, American marketing consultant to Swatch and advisor to dozens of entertainment companies. In addition, Abrams has been the subject of feature articles in hundreds of consumer publications including Playboy, Esquire, New York Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal.

At 49, Abrams resides in Washington D.C. with his wife and two children, and is a Commercial and Instrument rated pilot.

Chris Amenita
Senior Vice President, Enterprises Group, ASCAP
Chris Amenita is the Senior Vice President of ASCAP's Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP. The Enterprises Group focuses on the Society's Internet activities, as well as its investing and partnering in developing technologies and ventures. In addition, Chris is responsible for overseeing ASCAP's licensing efforts on the internet, as well as evaluating emerging technology surrounding the digital delivery of music on the internet. Chris was involved in the creation of ASCAP's New Media and Technology Department and ASCAP's Web Site in 1995. He has directed numerous projects in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, and most recently, in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology.


Pat Aufderheide
Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, American University
Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the author most recently of The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Guilford Press,1999), and she is the editor of Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding (Graywolf Press). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow, has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and editor on media and society, and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards. She has advocated for universal service telephone policies for the United Church of Christ, and has consulted on media issues for Benton, Rockefeller, Ford and MacArthur Foundations, as well as a variety of public television organizations. Aufderheide currently is a director of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She also serves on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art, and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy, and In These Times newspaper. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.

Eric Bazilian
Musician and Songwriter
As the son of a concert pianist and a psychiatrist, Eric certainly had what he calls "an interesting childhood". At the tender age of 11, he saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and his life changed forever. By 16, he was songwriting for his first band,"Evil Seed", who played all original music.

By the mid 70s Eric was attending college at the University of Pennsylvania and it was here that he met Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff, who would become his close friends and musical soulmates. Since these years, Eric has become known worldwide as a successful songwriter, musician, arranger and producer.

Eric and Rob co-founded The Hooters in 1980, extensively touring the area's clubs and colleges. The Hooters began their rise to fame with an independent album release titled "Amore" that sold over 100,000 copies. This led to their debut major label release "Nervous Night"; on Columbia in 1985. This album sold in excess of 2 million copies and included Billboard Top 40 hits such as "Day By Day" (#18), "And We Danced" (#21) and "Where Do The Children Go" (#38). The Hooters had continued success with 5 more albums including "Hooterization" "A Retrospective", Greatest Hits album and "The Hooters Live". The Hooters' albums attained Platinum and Gold status in USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden. Touring all over the world through 1995, highlights of Eric's career with The Hooters include the Live-Aid Concert 1985 in Philadelphia, televised across the globe, Amnesty International Concert at Giants Stadium 1986, the Tokyo Dome 1987 and Roger Waters' extravaganza at The Wall in Berlin 1990.

Throughout the 80s and 90s Eric has worked with many well-respected artists including Mick Jagger, Santana, Johnny Clegg, Willie Nelson, Belinda Carlisle, Taj Mahal and Sophie B Hawkins.
Eric composed, produced and performed on Joan Osborne's debut release "Relish" which was nominated for 6 Grammy Awards in 1996. He received his first solo Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year for his #3 Billboard smash hit "One Of Us". Securing his place as a songwriting architect of high degree throughout the world in the 1990s, Eric wrote numerous hits such as "Kiss The Rain"/Billie Meyers, "Old Before I Die"/Robbie Williams, "Believe In You"/Amanda Marshall and "Private Emotion"/Ricky Martin.

In 2000 Eric released his long awaited debut solo album "The Optimist" followed up by his sophmore effort "A Very Dull Boy", which was realeased in May 2002.

The year 2002 has so far seen Eric working with the likes of Dar Williams, Sister Hazel and Bette Midler, co-writing and/or playing for their respective upcoming albums.

Suzette Becker
Attorney, Becker Entertainment/Internet Law
Suzette Toledano Becker maintains an arts, entertainment and Internet legal practice above the House of Blues in New Orleans with emphasis on copyright, music licensing, recording contracts, music publishing contracts and business entities. Her international client list proudly includes artists, composers, producers, record labels, music publishers, webcasters, wireless providers and motion picture production companies, with a couple of Billboard award winners and Grammy nominees/winners among them. Her current community involvement focuses on improving economic development of the music and film industries in the state of Louisiana where pioneering legislative incentives were recently enacted. She is a member of the Advisory Council to the New Orleans’ Jazz & Heritage Foundation Board (owners of the legendary Jazz Fest) serving on the WWOZ Radio Governance Board and also a member of the RHINO (artist’s co-op) Board. She was voted OffBeat Music Magazine’s Best Music Attorney in Louisiana in 1999 and 2000 and was twice spotlighted by New Orleans’ CityBusiness newspaper in its “Women of the Year” series. She delivered the keynote address at Silver Lining Entertainment's Backstage Pass to the Music Industry Conference. Since 1994, she has served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. She regularly participates in MIDEM (Cannes) and South by Southwest (Austin). She is a frequent moderator and guest speaker on entertainment legal matters for the Practising Law Institute (Los Angeles), RadioInk Internet Radio conference (Boston), EAT'M (Las Vegas), the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference (New Orleans), Tulane Law School, Loyola University, University of New Orleans, Northern Illinois State University’s Law School, and MetroVision’s “Banking on the Music Industry” workshop for New Orleans’ area banking institutions.

Yochai Benkler
Professor, New York University School of Law
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. 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, theoreis 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.

Michael Bracy
Director of Government Relations, Future of Music Coalition
Michael Bracy is an associate with Bracy Tucker Brown 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.

Whitney Broussard
Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum & Mintz
Whitney Broussard is a partner in the New York office of the entertainment 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 Neptunes, Motley Crue. The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, India.Arie, Fisherspooner, Lit, Kinetic Records, Caroline Distribution and many others. Mr. Broussard has 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, the Norwegian Trade Council, the Future of New Orleans Music, and the Future of Music Coalition conferences in 2001 and 2002. He has also been quoted widely in the press regarding digital music issues, in publications and programs such as the San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today, Billboard, Spin, Wired, Music Business International, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Industry Standard, HITS, Webnoize, Digital Music Weekly, SonicNet, ACM TechNews, Vitaminic, InfoWar, NewsBytes, Mogulwars, LiveDaily, CNET Online, CNET Radio, NPR and Tech TV.


Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director, Creative Commons
Glenn Otis Brown is Executive Director of Creative Commons. Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and from Harvard Law School in 2000. In college, Glenn was awarded a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

After graduation, Glenn worked in The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau before clerking for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami. Last year, Glenn was assistant producer of Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro. He has published articles on copyright and other issues in The Economist, the Harvard Law Review, The New Republic Online, and the Texas Observer, and has made presentations at the South by Southwest Music Festival and 2600 Magazine's Hope Conference.


Jim Brown
Director, Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center
Jim Brown is Director of the Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC), a national database of information about health insurance and health care for the uninsured. He has worked as a contract negotiator for Aetna, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and Beech Street, a national PPO, and was a regulator of managed health care plans for the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. Prior to working in the health insurance industry, he taught for fourteen years at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.


Jim Burger
Member, Dow Lohnes & Albertson
Jim Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes & Albertson specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, communications and government policy matters. Jim joined the firm’s Media, Information and Technology group in January 1997. Prior to that, Jim was a Senior Director in Apple Computer’s Law Department. During the nine years he was at Apple, Jim had a variety of assignments, including representing Apple’s the Advanced Technology Group, USA Field Sales organizations, and World-Wide Operations and Manufacturing, as well as General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for world wide government affairs. In addition, from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council’s Proprietary Rights Committee. Jim has worked and written extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Jim has participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music – representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD Content Scrambling System copy protection rules as well as the Secure Digital Music Initiative. In addition, he has been engaged in such matters as the efforts to amend copyright law from leading the negotiations to exclude the computer industry from the Audio Home Recording Act, to avoid passage of the Digital Video Recording Act and to accommodate the protection of intellectual property on the Internet as well as the current Broadcast Protection proceeding at the FCC. Jim also represents a number of online music companies advising them on a variety of matters such as compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, music licensing rights and technology agreements. A native of New York City, he received his Bachelors (with Honors), Masters and Law (cum laude) degrees from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal. For seven years, he was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative law.


Rosemary Carroll
Founding Partner, Codikow, Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP
Rosemary Carroll graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and received her law degree from Stanford University. She has worked in the field of entertainment law since her graduation from law school and started her own law firm in 1989 with partner David Codikow. The firm has grown into Codikow, Carroll, Guido & Groffman, with offices in Los Angeles and New York City, which specializes in the representation of artists and entrepreneurs in the music industry. Its clients include The Strokes, Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, Outkast, Jay-Z, The Dave Matthews Band, Lucinda Williams, Iggy Pop, Blondie, and Steve Earle.

Ann Chaitovitz
Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA
Ann Chaitovitz is the National Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the labor union representing recording singers, as well as performers and broadcasters in radio and television. She joined AFTRA in 1995 as National Representative/Staff Counsel, focusing on copyright and performers’ rights issues and oversaw the first contingent scale audits conducted under the AFTRA Sound Recordings Code. She was named Sound Recordings Director in 2001.

Based in Washington, D.C., Chaitovitz participates in intellectual property litigation and Copyright Office proceedings, including the Copyright Arbitration Rates Panels (CARP) to set rates for the digital performance of copyrighted sound recordings. She worked in alliance with the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) and the American Federation of Musicians (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.

In the U.S., Chaitovitz has taken the lead role in lobbying for several artists’ rights issues including a bankruptcy bill that denied sound recording performers the same rights available to others who file for bankruptcy, ensuring that the harmful clause was subsequently dropped from the bill in conference committee. She worked to repeal the amendment to the “work made for hire’ definition, to ensure the direct payment of digital performance fees to artists and to change the structure of SoundExchange, so that artists would share control. 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.
She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law, serves on the Boards of SoundExchange and the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC), and participated in the American Assembly on “Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property.” Prior to joining AFTRA, Chaitovitz worked as a labor associate at New York law firm Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, and then as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), where she practiced copyright law.


Dawn C. Chmielewski
Staff Writer, San Jose Mercury News
Dawn C. Chmielewski (shim-ill-ES-key) is an entertainment technology writer and columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, the West Coast’s leading newspaper for business and technology coverage. She writes about digital music distribution, peer-to-peer file-sharing, streaming media and interactive video games.

Before joining the Mercury News in December 2000, Dawn was a technology writer and columnist for The Orange County Register’s “Connect,’’ section, a tabloid devoted to personal technology. She also wrote about business and technology for the Quincy Patriot Ledger in south suburban Boston. Her work has appeared in most major newspapers throughout the United States, including The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Arizona Republic, Los Angeles Daily News, Charlotte Observer, Dallas Morning News, Orlando Sentinel, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. She has also written technology features for Playboy Magazine.

Dawn is a frequent guest discussing digital entertainment topics on CNNfn and TechTV. She also speaks widely at industry conferences. Dawn has received writing awards from the American Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Associated Press. A graduate of Utica College of Syracuse University, Dawn is married and has two children. The family resides in Southern California.

Richard Conlon
Vice President of 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 licensing sales and marketing strategies to grow BMI’s digital licensing business and increase BMI licensing penetration with existing media customers.

He supervises BMI’s New Media Licensing team and BMI’s marketing effort to radio, television and cable. During his tenure BMI has negotiated licensing agreements with industry leaders including MP3.com, Farmclub.com, Yahoo Broadcast, Live 365.com and others. BMI also created the Digital Licensing Center a totally digital end-to-end online music licensing utility.

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 Anneberg 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.

Mark Cooper
Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America
Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for energy, telecommunications, and economic policy analysis. He is also Director of the Digital Society Project, a Ford Foundation funded effort to analyze and explain the impact of ongoing technological changes in American society to consumer, low income, and civil rights activists and organizations.

During 2002-2003, Dr. Cooper is a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and an Associated Fellow at the Columbia University Institute on Tele-Information.
He has published numerous articles in trade and scholarly journals including recent law review articles on digital society issues (“Open Communications Platforms: Cornerstone Of Innovation And Democratic Discourse In The Internet Age, The Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, forthcoming; “Inequality in Digital Society,” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 2002; “The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Econmic Reality versus Public Policy,” in B.M. Compaine (Ed.). The Digital Divide Cambridge: MIT); “Antitrust as Consumer Protection in the New Economy: Lessons From the Microsoft Case,” Hasting Law Journal, April 2001; and “Open Access to the Broadband Internet,” University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2000). He is the author of two books – The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982) and Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983), Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks (Economic Policy Institute 2003).

He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada.


Jim Cooperman
Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs, BMG Worldwide Corporate
As Vice President Legal & Business Affairs for BMG Worldwide Corporate, Jim Cooperman plays a key role in BMG’s pan-label transactions such as on-line catalog licenses and multi-label joint ventures. In addition, he played a key role in devising and implementing BMG's much publicized new royalty initiatives.

Following a two-year stint at RCA Records' Legal & Business Affairs department in the early 90's, Jim assumed the role of Senior Vice President Business and Legal Affairs for Sony Music-owned RED Distribution and its sister labels Relativity Records (1992-1997) and Loud Records (1998-1999) with which Relativity merged. He was integrally involved in the sale by Sony of RED to Hamburg-based edel Music, A.G. and Sony's subsequent reacquisition of RED in 2001.

Jim began his legal career with the firm of Kaye, Scholer in New York, during which time he also played in bands that performed throughout the City.


Sarah Deutsch
Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Sarah Deutsch is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Verizon Communications. Her practice covers all global Internet policy issues, including liability, privacy, intellectual property policy and Internet jurisdiction. She currently represents Verizon on a host of domestic and international Internet issues ranging from digital rights management, the Hague Convention, Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, Europe's E-Commerce and Copyright Directives, ICANN, domain name issues, and all U.S. Internet-related legislation.

Sarah served as Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization 1996 Conference on the WIPO Copyright Treaties. She was one five negotiators for the U.S. telecommunications industry in the negotiations that resulted in the passage of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. She has also served as a private sector expert to the Hague Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and was an industry representative to the G8 meetings on cybercrime.

Sarah was formerly Vice President & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) managing a large intellectual property practice, including registration and enforcement of patents, trademarks and copyrights worldwide.


Peter DiCola
Director of Economic Analysis, Future of Music Coalition
Peter DiCola is a graduate student pursuing a law degree and a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include labor economics, public finance, industrial organization, and intellectual property law. His interest in the radio and music industries began at college, where he spent a year booking independent rock, jazz, and electronic music at the Terrace Club in Princeton, NJ. He also worked as a DJ at WPRB-Princeton for three years.

Peter joined the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) in 2000 to study the effects of technological change on the musicians' labor market. In 2002 he co-authored "Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians?" with Kristin Thomson, Director of Research of the FMC. His current research focuses on media economics, in particular the radio and recording industries.


Mike Dreese
CEO and Co-Founder, Newbury Comics
Mike Dreese co-founded Newbury Comics, New England's leading alternative pop culture entertainment chain, with his M.I.T. roommate in 1978 with $2,000 and a comic collection. It has since grown to a 27 store chain with over 400 employed and revenues exceeding $75,000,000 annually. Newbury Comics has won the "retailer of the year" award three times from music retail trade association NARM, in the Small, Medium, and Large categories. Mike has twice been the keynote speaker for the annual meetigs of the Association For Independent Music. He was deposed in the Napster case, as well as the FTC's price fixing suit, as a reward for the extensive public articles he has written in the past on pricing, marketing, and the digital future! He is a frequent guest lecturer in economics and music business at the Berklee College of Music, where he has also served on the Board of Trustees for the past 7 years. In the past Mike has run three small labels: Modern Method Records, Black Wolf records, and Wicked Disc, as well as the 80's Boston Rock Magazine.

Marshall Eubanks
CEO, 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. and whose contributions to science were recognized by having an asteroid (6696 Eubanks) named in his honor. In 1999 Eubanks left Government service to co-found Multicast Technologies,which has taken a leading role in the development of mass market audio and video distribution on the Internet.

William Terry Fisher
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently Professor of Law and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993). He has written widely on the subjects of Intellectual Property Law and American Legal History. He is currently at work on a book entitled, "Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment."

John Flansburgh
Musician, They Might Be Giants
John Flansburgh is a founding member of They Might Be giants. Celebrating their 20th year as a band, TMBG was recently profiled in the New Yorker. An occasional panelist on these kinds of things, he enjoys a reputation as a contrarian and free-range grump.

Jane Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property, Columbia University Law School
B.A., Chicago, 1976; M.A., Chicago, 1977; J.D. Harvard, 1980; D.E.A., Université de Paris II, 1985 (Fulbright grantee); Doctor of Law, Université de Paris II, 1995. Editor and note editor, Harvard Law Review. Law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1980š81. Spent three years in private practice before teaching. Joined Columbia faculty in 1987. Co-director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, 1999špresent. Publications include three casebooks: Legal Methods: Cases and Materials (1996; 2d edition in preparation); Cases and Materials on Copyright (with Gorman, 6th ed., 2001); and Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (with Litman and Kevlin, 3rd ed., 2001), as well as many law review articles. Has taught French and U.S. copyright law at several French universities. Serves on the editorial boards of several intellectual property journals in the United States and abroad. Principal areas of interest are in intellectual property, comparative law, private international law, and legal methods.


Ira Glass
Host, This American Life
Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of the documentary radio program This American Life. The program is heard on over 420 public radio stations each week, by over 1.4 million people.
Under Glass' editorial direction, the program has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence: the Peabody and duPont-Columbia awards, as well as the Robert F Kennedy Award. The American Journalism Review and Brill's Content have declared that the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." It has attracted continuous national media attention in its seven years on the air, in The New York Times, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, and numerous other publications, and television appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, The CBS Morning News and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2001, Time magazine named him "Best Radio Host in America."

Glass' education reporting has won several awards: in 1991 from the National Education Association, in 1992 and 1994 from the Education Writers Association. In 1994 and 1995, Glass was invited to speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2000, he was the featured speaker at the commencement ceremony for the Journalism School at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1988, Glass was named as one of a handful of "Young Journalists of the Year" by the Livingston Foundation. In 1991, he and John Matisonn, NPR's South Africa correspondent, were awarded by the National Association of Black Journalists for their four-part series comparing race relations in South Africa with those in the United States. In 2000, he won Chicago's Studs Terkel Award and the Lyndhurst Foundation Award. In 2002, he and This American Life producers Alex Blumberg and Jonathan Goldstein, won the first prize in the Third Coast International Audio Festival competition. He is also the recipient of the Woods Hole Radio Pioneer Award "The Lobster."

Glass graduated from Brown University in January 1982, with honors, in Semiotics.

Bill Goldsmith
Partner, Radioparadise.com
Bill Goldsmith, 49, has made a career out of free-form (DJ-programmed) radio for over 30 years, first on the FM dial and now on the Internet. Goldsmith & his wife Rebecca operate Radio Paradise (www.radioparadise.com) from their home in Paradise, Ca. He also is a consultant for KPIG-FM, one of the country's most successful adult-alternative FM stations. It was there that Goldsmith began the world's first professional webcast in August, 1995.

Goldsmith was also a member of the group of independent webcasters that participated in the royalty negotiations with the RIAA that resulted in the notorious "HR 5469 Compromise" (or sellout, depending on which scandal rag you read...).

Radio Paradise plays an eclectic blend of modern rock (including many indie artists), 60s/70s/80s classics, world music, acoustic, jazz, blues, and occasional surprises - all blended with careful attention to detail by Goldsmith. The station utilizes a unique "free-form automation" system designed & written by Goldsmith, which is due to be released soon as an open-source software project.


Jim Griffin
CEO, Cherry Lane Digital
Jim Griffin is CEO of Cherry Lane Digital. Cherry Lane is dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art.

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.

While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States. He has been regularly named to the list of the 100 most important people in the music business.
Jim is one of the founders of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets weekly in numerous cities around the world and is electronically linked by a mailing list. Pho's thousand-strong membership enjoys dialogue on the digital economy in music, movies, books and all media, new and old.

Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in court cases in the area of digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses.

In addition to work with music, his networking expertise now includes wireless work in Europe, including a speech at Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and work with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He's moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, 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.


Kurt Hanson
Publisher, RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Kurt Hanson is publisher of "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter," a daily, web-based publication covering the field of Internet radio. He is also the founder of AccuRadio, an intern-programmed, multichannel Internet radio webcast. Prior to 1998, he was the founder and CEO of Strategic Media Research, which was at the time a leading market research serving the radio industry. Previously, he worked in radio at WOKY/Milwaukee, WLS/Chicago, WLUP/Chicago, and other stations. He holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.


Michael Hausman
President, SuperEgo Records/United Musicians
Michael Hausman, artist manager, co-founder of SuperEgo Records and United Musicians has had a long and varied career in the music business.

In 1984, Michael and his group ‘Til Tuesday had a Billboard top 10 hit with the song and video “Voices Carry”. The band, featuring Aimee Mann, went on to record three albums for Epic records earning an MTV Best New Artist award, multiple gold records and numerous other distinctions. It was from this vantage point that Michael learned his first lesson about the music business.

In the early 1990’s Michael moved on to producing and artist management – he currently manages Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, and Pete Droge.

In 1999, Michael and artist Aimee Mann founded their own independent label, Superego Records and released Mann’s LP “Bachelor #2”. This record received the AFIM’s Independent Album of The Year Award and became Mann’s most successful solo release to date.

Bolstered by the success of Superego Records, Michael formed United Musicians; a coalition of artists united by an independent spirit and like-minded ethos. Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar) will be United Musician’s first release in 2002. Later in 2002 came the release of Mann’s second album “Lost In Space” which captured the #1 spot on the Billboard Independent and Internet charts in it’s first week of release.

Michael Hausman serves on several boards affiliated with musicianship, management and independence as well as being a tireless artist’s advocate.

He studied music at Berklee College of Music and musicology at Tufts University.


Bill Holland
Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine
Bill Holland, the veteran Washington Bureau Chief for Billboard, is an award-winning journalist and musician.

As a writer, he covers the legislative and regulatory beat, and has won many awards for his work, most notably two ASCAP Deems Taylor awards for significant contributions to music journalism.

The first one, awarded in 1998, was for his three-part investigative series chronicling the systematic destruction and loss of untold numbers of heritage sound recordings due to lax record industry archival and preservation policies.

The most recent one, awarded in 2000, was for his year-long series on the now-repealed law that made sound recordings a new category of work for hire that took away the right of artists to reclaim their recordings after a period of exploitation.

As a musician, from the mid-70s, singer-songwriter-pianist Holland has led one of the area’s most revered groups, the Rent’s Due Band, and has seven albums to his credit, the most recent one, “By Heart,” released last year. He has won several Washington Area Music awards (WAMMIES) for his musical work.

Pam Horovitz
President, National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)
Pam Horovitz began her career in the music industry working part-time for The Record Shop while she attended college. She went on to hold various sales, marketing, and promotion positions in WEA's music and video divisions before joining the staff of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Video Software Dealers Association in 1985. She worked her way up the ranks until she was selected as Executive Vice President, the top staff position, in 1989. When NARM and VSDA separated in 1990, Horovitz stayed with NARM and was named President in 1996.

Over the years Horovitz has had responsibility for over 50 conferences and conventions serving the music and video industries ranging in size from just 100 people to over 14,000.

Notable NARM projects under Horovitz’s tenure include merchandising campaigns supporting the Grammy’s, the American Music Awards, the MTV Awards, the CMA Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, the Soul Train Awards, the Gospel Music Association Awards, the Billboard Awards; the establishment of Classical Music Month with a Classical Music Guide educational curriculum for retail personnel; the launch of the CD sampler programs which provide inexpensive promotional support for new releases in classical, jazz, and blues music; the implementation of the only industry-wide security–tag program; programs supporting Tuesday as the standard street date for industry releases; the setting of standards meeting a variety of business needs including packaging, cartons, forms and fields for business-to-business communications; the creation of a standard industry database; numerous studies and research projects; a glossary of terms for digital distribution; and a variety of anti-piracy programs.

Horovitz is committed to education and NARM currently sponsors over 125 college students through financial grants from the NARM Scholarship Foundation. For over ten years, NARM has coordinated an out reach program to colleges and universities promoting the development of a curriculum for music industry executives, and NARM facilitates the entry of program graduates into the industry through an ongoing intern placement program, a free "careers" bulletin board on the NARM website, and a job fair at the annual convention. Horovitz is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences including events in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, the UK, and the US. Horovitz is the recipient of the Mickey Granberg Award for Contributions to the Independent Music Community, as well as the Rock the Vote Founder’s Awards.

She resides in Haddonfield, N.J. with a husband, a daughter, and a substantial record collection that she vows never to move again.


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 Jenner
Chairman, AURA and Chairman, IMMF
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 twenty-one. His career in academia lasted for four years after which he left to devote his attention to managing an up-and-coming modern music group which had 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 twenty-five 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 T Rex (fronted by Marc Bolan), Ian Dury, Roy Harper, The Clash, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy, Robyn Hitchcock and Baaba Maal.

Peter has managed Billy Bragg’s career for more than fifteen years and also manages Eddi Reader (the voice of Fairground Attraction).

Peter Jenner is also chairman of the IMMF (International Music Managers’ Forum), a director of the UK MMF (Music Managers’ Forum), a council member and chairman of AURA (Association of United Recording Artists) and a director of Artspages.


Rick Karr
Cultural Trends Correspondent, NPR News
Rick Karr reports from New York on culture, society and technology for NPR News; he's also an occasional contributor to the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers. In 1998 and 1999, he hosted the NPR weekend music and culture magazine show Anthem. Prior to that, he was a general assignment reporter, producer, and engineer at NPR's Chicago Bureau. Rick has written about pop music and culture for New Musical Express, Sounds, Stereo Review, and the late SonicNet web site. He's a member of the songwriters' collective Box Set Authentic, whose debut CD is due in 2003, and he's producing the debut release by Brooklyn rock act The Victoria Lucas. Rick has worked with his wife, filmmaker Birgit Rathsmann, on a number of projects, including Grit and Polish, a one-hour documentary on the women of the Hong Kong film industry, and Onsen, a video installation that made its debut this year in Kamiyama, Japan.


Kenneth M. Kaufman
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Kenneth M. Kaufman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he focuses on entertainment law, intellectual property, Internet and e-commerce law, content licensing, and the convergence of the entertainment, computer and communications industries.

He represents a wide range of clients in the entertainment, online and technology fields, including recording artists, songwriters, Webcasters, television networks, video producers, financial institutions, new media entrepreneurs, Internet technology companies, performing rights organizations, and authors. From 1994-1999 he served as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, teaching a course on "Music and the Law," and has also lectured at other universities including American, Catholic, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, and NYU.

Prior to joining Skadden, Arps, Mr. Kaufman served as General Counsel of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel of PolyGram Records, Inc. in New York; as Senior Vice President, General Counsel of Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc.; and as Assistant Counsel of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.

A frequent speaker and author on entertainment law, copyright, and digital music, Mr. Kaufman has spoken at industry conferences for organizations including South by Southwest, the Recording Academy, Leadership Music, the Country Music Association, the Practising Law Institute, the National Association of Broadcasters, Women in Film and Video, the Information Industry Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, Chair of the Music and Entertainment Law Committee of the D.C. Bar Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Section, a member of the Advisory Board of the Washington Area Music Association and the Songwriters' Association of Washington, and a member of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

A graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude) and Yale Law School (where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal), he is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York and California. He is also a composer and musician and has been a member of the ASCAP Pop Songwriters' Workshop in Los Angeles and the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in New York.


Joe Kraus
Co-Founder, Digitalconsumer.org
Joe Kraus is a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a grassroots consumer organization with over 44,000 members dedicated to protecting consumer’s fair-use rights to digital media.

Kraus is also an Internet entrepreneur. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993, Joe joined with five engineering friends to found the highly successful Internet company, Excite. The original president of Excite, Inc., Kraus was deeply involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development, marketing and content.

As an angel investor, Kraus currently works with numerous early-stage technology companies, partnering with the senior teams and investment firms to help bring together talent, technology, management and drive. He is also in stealth mode working on a new business-to-business enterprise that focuses on the semantic Web.

Dina LaPolt
Attorney, LaPolt Law, P.C.
Dina LaPolt of LaPolt Law, P.C. specializes in representing clients in the music and entertainment industries as well as developing artists. The firm’s clientele includes recording artists, record companies, publishers, producers, managers, film production companies, writers, authors, and actors. In addition to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Recording and Publishing Industries” at the UCLA Music Business Extension Program, is one of the authors of the Matthew Bender Entertainment Industry Negotiation and Drafting Guides (the “Music Law Volumes”), is part owner of an independent record company, and plays in an all girl rock band called, “Trophy Girl.”

Bruce Lehman
President, International Intellectual Property Institute
Bruce Lehman is President and CEO of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), a non-partisan, not-for-profit institution, based in Washington, D.C. The Institute fosters 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 developing 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 the WIPO and is a member of several corporate Boards.

From August 1993 through 1998, Mr. Lehman served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. 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 (NEH), which fosters the work of America’s artistic and creative community.


Alex Maiolo
Co-owner, Lee-Moore Insurance
Alex Maiolo is an owner of The Lee-Moore Insurance Agency in North Carolina, and is based in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill area at one of the company's three locations. He is active in supporting the arts, local music and small business, and is a member of the Triangle Area Chamber of Commerce. Alex handles personal and commercial lines on a daily basis, but specializes in meeting the needs of small businesses and non-profits. He has been a consultant for the FMC for over a year.


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.

L. Londell McMillan
President and C.E.O, L. Londell McMillan, P.C. and NorthStar Business Enterprises
L. Londell McMillan is President and C.E.O. of L. Londell McMillan, P.C. and NorthStar Business Enterprises, Inc. where he specializes in business, entertainment, and sports law and business operations. Mr. McMillan’s elite client list includes gold and platinum status recording artists, professional sports clients, authors, executives and businesses in the communications, entertainment, retail and fashion industries (i.e. Prince, Stevie Wonder, DMX, D’Angelo, Roberta Flack, Faith Evans, Roy Jones, Jr., Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee and many other notables). Mr. McMillan was the recipient of the prestigious MBBA Haywood W. Burns, Lawyer of the Year Award 2001.

Before founding his own businesses on January 15, 1997, Mr. McMillan established himself as a leading entertainment lawyer with the law firm of Gold, Farrell & Marks. During Mr. McMillan’s earlier years as an attorney, he practiced corporate law at the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., where he counseled multi-media communication companies (i.e., Time-Warner Cable and The Discovery Channel) as well as private and publicly-held corporations and financial institutions. Prior to that he worked with Athletes and Artists, Inc. as a sports agent, while attending college and law school.

Mr. McMillan was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn; he is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical high school (Class of 1983), the School for Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (B.S. 1987) and New York University School of Law (J.D. 1990). Mr. McMillan is an honors graduate and Academic All American mentioned student-athlete who played for four years on the Cornell University football team. While in law school, Mr. McMillan was the Northeast Regional Director of the National Black Law Students Association. He is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut. Mr. McMillan serves on the Alumni Counsel of Cornell Board of Trustees at Cornell University. In December 1989, Mr. McMillan was one of the founders of the New York City Minority Roundtable for large, corporate law firms.

A champion of human and artists’ rights, Mr. McMillan is General Counsel and co-founder for the Artist Empowerment Coalition (AEC) a non-profit coalition of artists, musicians, performers, songwriters, consumers and community advocates formed to utilize the gift and creation of music, art and culture to make the world a better place, as well as promote changes in the relationships between artists and the companies that exploit, market and distribute their creative work. Mr. McMillan has appeared on television and radio programs as well as participated in numerous forums and government hearings regarding business and economic development, juvenile justice and the business of sports and entertainment. Mr. McMillan is also the author of “An Overview of the Wide World of Entertainment & Sports Law” and co-author of “Transactions and Aggregation of Capitol Resources for Financial Empowerment and Self- Determination,” published in National Bar Association Magazine.


David Meinert
Chair of the Advocacy Committe for The Pacific Northwest Branch of the Recording Academy
Owner/ President of Fuzed Music
David Meinert is the owner/ founder of Fuzed Music in Seattle, which he started in 1998 after leaving Curtis Management where he managed The Posies and Mary Lou Lord. Fuzed Music currently manages Maktub, The Catheters, Mountain Consolidated and The Master Musicians of Jajouka, consults on programming for the Seattle Music & Arts festival Bumbershoot, produces the Capitol Hill Block Party and books a 300 capacity club the Sit & Spin. After graduating from Western Washington University with a double major in Philosophy and Economics, David became involved in many music related activist groups such as Home Alive -a Seattle based anti-violence project; JAMPAC - a pro-music, pro-free speech lobbying group started by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novaselic; Monkeywrench Radio - a pirate radio collective started by Pearl Jam; The Seattle City Council's Music and Youth Task Force - which dealt with increasing youth access to music in Seattle; and The Vera Project - a non-profit volunteer youth run all ages venue in downtown Seattle.
Through these groups and with The Northwest Branch of the Recording Academy, David played an important role in overturning many anti-music laws in Seattle including the Teen Dance Ordinance which outlawed all ages dances and concerts, a restrictive noise ordinance, and an anti-postering law. He is now the Chair of the Pacific Northwest's Branch of the Recording Academy's Advocacy Committee which is dealing with regional policy issues effecting musicians and the music business, and is working with the national office of the Recording Academy to pass the Feingold Bill.

Steven Metalitz
Senior Vice President, International Intellectual Property Alliance
Steven J. Metalitz is a Partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Smith & Metalitz LLP. He specializes in intellectual property, privacy and information law. He provides legal counseling and policy advocacy, primarily for clients in the publishing, recording, motion picture, software and database industries.

Mr. Metalitz has represented the main coalitions of the copyright industry sector on key public policy issues. In this capacity, he has served as counsel to the Copyright Coalition on Domain Names (CCDN) since its establishment in 1999. As counsel to the Creative Incentive Coalition, Mr. Metalitz was closely involved in the drafting and enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. He also serves as Senior Vice President of the International Intellectual Property Alliance® (IIPA®), the coalition of copyright industry trade associations working for stronger copyright protection and enforcement around the world, including ratification and implementation of the WIPO Internet treaties.

From 1989-1994, Mr. Metalitz was Vice President and General Counsel of the Information Industry Association. From 1982-1989, he held several senior staff positions with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, including Chief Nominations Counsel, and Chief Counsel and Staff Director of its Subcommittee on Patents, Copyright and Trademarks. Before his government service, Mr. Metalitz practiced law in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Metalitz is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia and South Carolina (inactive). He has taught copyright law as Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago and earned his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Metalitz also has over 25 years' experience as a jazz radio producer, announcer and engineer on non-commercial and commercial FM stations.


Patrick Monaghan
President, CTD Limited
Patrick Monaghan has been taking a little time off before getting his graduate degree since 1988. He has been working in some dark corner of the independent music business since 1986. His music industry experience runs the gamut from retail desk clerk and distribution warehouse boy to owner and manager. He started the Carrot Top Records label in 1992 and it remains an expensive hobby. To assist his label in securing payment from laggard distributors, he started his own distribution business that finally birthed the distributor CTD, Ltd. in 1996. He fondly remembers his Apple IIe, 128k Mac, and when you had to put the word "Internet" in front of your e-mail address. A wise man in the music business once told him, "Be careful what you wish for." He did not heed those words. He lives in Chicago with his wife, cats, and dog.


Andrew Moss
Director of Technical Policy, New Media Platforms, Microsoft Corporation
Andy Moss has over 21 years in the high tech industry. During the past twelve years, Andy has developed, launched and managed new products and services for the Microsoft Corporation. In his current role, Andy drives Microsoft’s strategy bridging the gap between technical standards and public policy in the areas of Digital Media, Rights Management, Intellectual Property, and Broadband adoption as they affect the core Windows operating system business. During his career creating new technical innovations, Andy has paid particular attention to helping customers think through ways of adopting and incorporating effective and creative uses for those developments. Previously at Microsoft, Andy managed the Windows Extension Business Unit, drove the Enterprise developer tools strategy, initiated and developed strategic third-party relationships, founded and managed Microsoft’s consulting business on the East Coast. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andy held various management and technical leadership positions in corporate, professional services, and software firms; including Pfizer, The Equitable, George B. Buck Actuarial Consulting, a boutique consulting company and a software start-up.


Bob Mould
Musician
Bob Mould - songwriter, guitarist, singer, label (Granary Music) founder. 2002 releases: Bob Mould "Modulate", LoudBomb "Long Playing Grooves", Bob Mould Band "Live Dog '98"


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.

John Nichols
Writer, The Nation
John Nichols writes about national politics and media policy for The Nation magazine, the country's oldest journal of opinion. He is also an associate editor of The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, Wi., and a regular contributor to The Progressive, In These Times and other publications. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Christian Science Monitor and many other newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.

He is the author (with Robert W. McChesney) of the books It's the Media, Stupid! (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and Our Media, Not Theirs (Seven Stories Press, 2002). He is also the author of Jews for Buchanan (New Press, 2001), an analysis of the 2000 presidential election and the Florida recount that focuses heavily on media issues. His writing on media focuses on media and democracy, media concentration, cultural and racial diversity, and free press and journalism concerns.


Richard Owens
Head of Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
Richard Owens is Head of the Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where he works on developing and maintaining international standards for protection of creators and performers in the digital environment. Until October 2002, he was International IPR Adviser for British Music Rights (BMR) in London, the lobbying and public affairs voice of UK composers, songwriters and music publishers. Richard was also an active participant in RightsWatch, the EC-funded project which aimed at developing self-regulatory notice-and-takedown procedures for the European Union.


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

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

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

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

Sandy Pearlman just might be the only person on the planet, to have been on the cover of the Wall Street Journal, Mondo 2000 and the pulp English Music newspaper, New Musical Express. The National Public Radio special on Heavy Metal, the Karamazov Vista,was basically the Sandy Pearlman show. In 1992 ( when Nirvana ruled the Earth) KIRO TV (CBS Seattle) produced a program on his view of the Seattle rock scene.

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.

Vincent Peppe
Legal Counsel, Licensing Department, SESAC
Vincent H. Peppe is Legal Counsel to the licensing department at SESAC, Inc., the second oldest performing rights organization in the U.S. He has extensive experience in licensing sound recordings and musical compositions for motion pictures, television, compilation albums, computer software, the Internet, digital distribution and music subscription services. As an entertainment attorney, he has represented songwriters, recording artists, music publishers, and production companies. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Peppe was General Counsel and Director of Business Development at Naxos of America, one the world’s leading classical music labels. From 1995 to 1999, he was an attorney and later Deputy Director of the Legal Division at the Tennessee Department of Labor. From 1991 to 1995, Mr. Peppe practiced law at King & Ballow and then at his own firm in Nashville, Tennessee. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Peppe served as a law clerk to federal judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Mr. Peppe is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School where he was an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. He is admitted to the bar in Tennessee, New York and Connecticut.

Marybeth Peters
Register, US Copyright Office
Marybeth Peters has been Register of Copyrights since August,1994. Previously, she served as Acting General Counsel, Policy Planning Adviser to the Register,and Chief of both the Examining and Information and Reference Divisions. During 1989 and 1990 she served as a Consultant in Copyright Law at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Ms. Peters frequently testifies before Congressional committees on music and other issues.

Ms. Peters graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School; she has a bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College. She is active in the Copyright Society of the USA, the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, the Computer Law Association and ALAI-USA (an authors' rights organization). She serves on the Legal and Legislation Committee of CISAC (the international organization of authors and composers cocieties.

Ms. Peters has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, the Columbus School of Law of Catholic University and Georgetown University Law Center.


Linda Phillips
President, Nuçi Phillips Memorial Foundation
I serve as President of the Nuçi Phillips Memorial Foundation. Six years ago, my 22-year-old son, Nuçi, killed himself after battling clinical depression for five years. He was a senior at the University of Georgia, a talented musician and a kind and caring individual. In his memory, my family and I formed a nonprofit foundation. We bought an old warehouse in downtown Athens, Georgia, renovated it and turned it into a resource center for musicians called Nuçi’s Space. It houses four practice rooms, a performance area, coffee bar and offices. Our chief program is a counseling referral service for musicians who suffer from depression and other such disorders. In the two years that we’ve been open, we’ve helped over 160 musicians receive professional counseling. Our goal is to provide a supportive environment and appropriate treatment without stigma and obstacles.

Steve Picou
Assistant Director, Louisiana Music Commission
Steve Picou spent 15 years as a professional musician (Bas Clas 1976-91), and worked with legendary producer (the late) John Hammond, producer Tom Werman and promoter/manager John Scher. He also served time in radio, retail, audio production, staging and more. For the past 10 years at the Louisiana Music Commission, a state agency within Louisiana Economic Development, he has worked to improve the music industry in the state. Led by Chairman Ellis L. Marsalis Jr. and Executive Director Bernie Cyrus, the LMC is officially charged with promoting and developing Louisiana's commerical music industry. This broad mandate allows the agency to work on issues both local and national. The LMC was one of the first organizations to call for a Congressional investigation of Pay for Play. Additionally, the LMC helped develop the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, the first public health care facility in the United States dedicated to the unique needs of people in the music industry and a model for programs in other states. The LMC team also produced literally hundreds of hours of radio and television programming promoting Louisiana music. As of January 1, 2003, the City of New Orleans will cease collecting the Amusement Tax on live music, culminating a 10 year fight by the LMC. Picou serves as office manager, webmaster and network manager. He composes the majority of content on the LMC website, and develops strategic plans, reports and other documents generated by the agency. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Alliance for Arts Education, a component of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education network, which seeks to implement national standards for arts education in primary and secondary schools. In addition, Picou spent more than 10 years working to end celebratory New Year's Eve gunfire in New Orleans, a successful effort that has significantly reduced the problem and served as a national model.


Patricia Polach
Attorney, Bredhoff & Kaiser
Patricia Polach is an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. For the past fifteen years she has represented the American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”) in the full range of issues in which it is involved as a labor organization with over 100,000 professional musician members throughout the United States and Canada. Musicians represented by the AFM record albums, movie sound tracks, television and radio programming and commercials under industry-wide AFM collective bargaining agreements that set standard session rates and require the payment of additional compensation tied to the sales and new uses of recorded product. AFM members include session musicians and royalty artists. They also include musicians who perform live music in theaters, concert halls and every type of small and large venue.

The AFM was an early proponent of amending the Copyright Act to create a performance right in sound recordings. Patricia assisted in the AFM’s successful joint efforts (with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the RIAA) to achieve the enactment of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 – and, in particular, to ensure that the Act would require that the new income streams created would be shared with featured and non-featured recording artists. She has continued to work with the AFM’s legislative affairs office and AFTRA on issues of importance to artists, including the enactment of the DMCA, the repeal of the work-made-for-hire amendment, direct payment to artists of their share of digital performance license fees, and a variety of other issues. She also represents the AFM in rate-setting proceedings such as the recent webcaster CARP.


David Post
Professor of Law, Temple University
David Post is currently a Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace, and a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Technology and Law at George Mason University. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law Institute and Disputes.org, and Co-Founder and Co-Editor of ICANN Watch.

Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Professor Post spent two years studying the feeding ecology of yellow baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and he taught at the Columbia University Department of Anthropology from 1976 through 1981. He then attended Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law and high technology commercial transactions. He then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the United States before joining the faculty of, first, the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 - 1997) and then the Temple University Law School (1997 - present).

Professor Post's articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and the application of complexity theory to Internet legal questions, have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Esther Dyson=s Release 1.0, the Journal of Online Law, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and numerous other publications. For four years (1994 - 1998) he wrote a monthly column on law and technology (Plugging In) for the American Lawyer. He has appeared as a commentator on the law of cyberspace on such programs as the Lehrer News Hour, Morning Edition, PBS' Life on the Internet series, NPR's All Things Considered and MarketPlace, and Court TV's Supreme Court Preview. During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues (Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide e-mail course on Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers which attracted over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica in the band Bad Dog.

Professor Post's writings can be accessed online at http://www.davidpost.com.

Tim Quirk
Director of Editorial/Music Programming, Listen.com
Tim Quirk oversees day-to-day operations of Listen's editorial department. Tim guides the department as it reviews and categorizes the music available through Rhapsody, programs the service's Internet radio stations and music samplers, and develops the artist biographies, album reviews, and genre descriptions that help subscribers explore and learn about music as they listen. Tim spent more than 10 years as the front guy for the debilitatingly over-educated punk-pop band Too Much Joy. He has also contributed to publications such as Raygun, Sassy, The San Francisco Chronicle and SF Bay Guardian.


Dr. Susan Raeburn
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Susan Raeburn is a licensed clinical psychologist with special interests in working with musicians. Her 1984 doctoral dissertation was the first academic study of occupational stress and coping in professional rock musicians and was subsequently published in 1987. Although she has also worked with classical musicians, her primary interests remain in studying the popular musician subculture in which she grew up. Perhaps her best qualification for working with musicians is having had professional musicians as parents- Boyd Raeburn and Ginnie Powell of the Big Band era.

Dr. Raeburn maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Berkeley and is a staff psychologist in the Chemical Dependency Services program at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek. From 1983-1992, she was a staff psychologist at Stanford University Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences treating a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders as well as chemical dependency. She was a Clinical Associate at the Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California at San Francisco while that program was in existence under the direction of Peter Ostwald, M.D. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal, Medical Problems of Performing Artists.

Since 1994 Dr. Raeburn has been active on panels at music industry conferences such as South By Southwest and North By Northwest on the subject of musician health and coping with the stresses and strains of the business. In addition to working with musicians and bands, she continues to publish on musicians’ health issues.


Vernon Reid
Musician and Songwriter
While most of the world knows him as the leader of the pioneering multi-platinum rock band LIVING COLOR, Mr. Reid's well runs much deeper: from his formative years on New York's downtown scene with RONALD SHANNON JACKSON'S DECODING SOCIETY, to his collaborations with creative spirits ranging from guitarist CARLOS SANTANA to African singer SALIF KEITA -- both nominated for Grammys; choreography scores produced for BILL T. JONES and DONALD BYRD, to his production work for JAMES BLOOD ULMER (Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions, 2001), Vernon is always burning the musical candle at both ends. His solo projects include the 1996 album Mistaken Identity on Sony/550, the multi-media presentation My Science Project, and composing for film. In September 2002, Vernon and DJ Logic, as the duo YOHIMBE BROTHERS, released the album Front End Lifter and toured the United States. Vernon Reid fans will be happy to learn that Living Colour will have an album of new material released in 2003.

Michael Remington
Attorney, Drinker Biddle & Reath
Michael J. Remington has over twenty five years of experience in intellectual property law (copyrights, trademarks, patents and semiconductor chip mask works), court reform, government relations and lobbying. For nine years, he was Chief Counsel of the Judiciary Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration. Mike’s clients include a performing rights organization comprising thousands of songwriters and music publishers, a university foundation, several trade associations, a national coalition of photographic industry and photofinishing interests, several computer software companies, electronic commerce enterprises, and individual authors and creators. He has served as an expert witness on legislative history in several patent and copyright cases. Mike is a member of the Board of Governors for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association. He is a former Fulbright Scholar in Paris, France, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Order of the Coif), where he received his law degree in 1973. Prior to joining Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in 1996, Mike was a partner with a Washington, DC law firm. He is admitted to practice in the State of Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association.

Perry Resnick
RZO/Music Managers Forum - US
Perry runs the daily operations of RZO’s Royalty Department, handling all aspects of royalty examinations for RZO’s business management clients, as well as for many non-business management clients. He has conducted royalty examinations of all the major US record companies and music publishers, many of their European affiliates, and numerous independent record companies, music publishers and merchandisers.

A strong advocate of artist rights, Perry is Treasurer for the US branch of the Music Managers Forum, serving on its Executive Board. Perry is also on the SoundExchange Board, representing the MMF-US and helping to protect the rights of recording artists.

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.


Jay Rosenthal
Attorney, Recording Artists Coalition, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe, LLP
Jay Rosenthal is a partner specializing in Entertainment, Arts, and Copyright Law with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP. Mr. Rosenthal is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at the George Washington University Law School, a Sound Exchange Board Member, and a former Copyright Examiner with the U.S. Copyright Office. He is also vice-president of the Washington Area Music Association, an Advisory Board Member of the Songwriter Association of Washington, and an active volunteer attorney with the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.

Mr. Rosenthal has authored numerous articles on entertainment law, intellectual property, and international law, and is a periodic contributor to Billboard and other industry newsletters and journals. He has lectured extensively across the country on entertainment industry topics.

Mr. Rosenthal received an Undergraduate Degree in History and a Masters Degree in International Affairs from The American University, a Juris Doctor Degree in Law from The Antioch School of Law, and a Masters of Law Degree in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Rosenthal’s former and present clients include The Recording Artists Coalition (RAC), Mya, Salt N Pepa, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Rare Essence, DJ Kool, SEV, Thievery Corporation, Toshi Reagan, Jimmies Chicken Shack, 18th Street Lounge Music, Butch Cassidy, Bill Kirchen, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, radio personalities Albie Dee, Christina Kelley and Bill Curry, comedian Robert Schimmel, and monument maker/portrait sculptor Robert Berks.


Robert Santelli
Director and CEO, Experience Music Project
As Director and CEO, Santelli manages a team of deputy directors across EMP's five divisions:
interpretive services; administration and facility operations; development; external affairs; and
human resources.

Beginning his diverse and dynamic career as a freelance music journalist in New Jersey, Santelli
has since contributed to esteemed publications including Rolling Stone, CD Review, Downbeat,
Backstreets, Asbury Park Press and the New Jersey Monthly. Additionally, he has communicated
his musical knowledge by writing seven books on rock “n” roll and the blues, most recently
serving as executive editor of the American Music Masters book series and the book American
Roots Music.

He first merged his passion for music and education in 1992, serving as an assistant professor in
the music department at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Establishing a
robust Popular Music Studies Program, his educational endeavors led to an adjunct professorship
and guest lecturer position at Rutgers University where he taught courses on contemporary
American culture, pop culture and the blues.

Prior to EMP, Santelli spent five years with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, most
recently as vice president of education and public programs. Santelli joined the Rock Hall prior to
its opening in September 1995, and was responsible for creating and overseeing the museum’s
educational programming and curriculum, as well as cultivating community outreach programs.
Additionally, he played a key role developing the American Music Masters Series, an annual Rock
Hall event that highlights the career and legacy of an Early Influence inductee; the Hall of Fame
series, which features intimate performances and conversations with Hall of Fame inductees; and
“Rock in the Schools,” programs for K-12.

This extensive background brought him to EMP, where he originally served as deputy director,
responsible for the development of all public programming and education initiatives, as well as
new museum content, exhibits, workshops, lectures, concerts and special events. Since joining
EMP, Santelli has played an instrumental role in making the museum a premier music and
education destination, securing a partnership with the GRAMMY Foundation as well as
launching Electric Bus, EMP’s educational outreach vehicle.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman
President and CEO, Media Access Project
Andrew Jay Schwartzman is the President and CEO of Media Access Project (MAP). He has directed the organization since June, 1978.

MAP is a non-profit public interest telecommunications law firm which represents the public's in promoting the First Amendment rights to speak and to hear. It seeks to promote creation of a well informed electorate by insuring vigorous debate in a free marketplace of ideas. In recent years, MAP has led efforts to insure that broad and affordable public access is provided during the deployment of advanced telecommunications networks and the Internet.

Mr. Schwartzman has appeared on behalf of MAP before the Congress, the FCC and the courts on issues such as cable TV regulation, minority and female ownership and employment in the mass media,"equal time" laws and cable "open access."

Mr. Schwartzman is member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and is a board member of the Minority Media Telecommunications Council and the Safe Energy Communications Council. Mr. Schwartzman was the Law and Regulation Contributor to Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television, and is the author of the telecommunications chapter in the Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement. His work has been published in major legal and general journals, including Variety, Electronic Media, The Washington Post, COMM/ENT Law Journal and The ABA Journal. He is a frequent guest on television and radio programs such as The Today Show, Nightline, CNN's Reliable Sources, network evening newscasts, and All Things Considered.

Mr. Schwartzman is an Instructor at the Johns Hopkins University's Program on Communication in Contemporary Society.

Mr. Schwartzman is the 1994 recipient of the United Church of Christ Office of Communication's Everett C. Parker Award.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and its law school in 1971, Schwartzman was staff counsel to the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ. From 1974 until he took his current position, Schwartzman worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and predecessor agencies. He is married to Linda Lazarus, a hearing officer with the United States Department of Energy.


Eamon Shackleton
Head of Legal Affairs, Irish Music Rights Organization
Eamon Shackleton has been in the music copyright administration business for 25 years and is currently the Head of Legal Affairs in the Irish Music Rights Organisation Ltd (IMRO). He was the lead advisor in the first ever copyright case to be brought before the World Trade Organisation.
He holds a law degree, is a qualified Barrister and al