Welcome by Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
9:15
AM - 10:30 AM
Panel
1: Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
Good data is essential for both proper business planning and
the creation of sensible policies. But who has the data? Who
owns the data? How do musicians and citizens access data, and
how does data influence business decisions and policy debates?
This panel brings together representatives from collection agencies,
academics and researchers who rely on data to compensate artists,
or to illustrate the effects of current technologies, policies
and business models on musicians and citizens.The impact
of file sharing on the music
industry, as well as musicians, will be discussed.
Jim Griffin CEO, Cherry Lane Digital/Pho (moderator) Ron Gertz President and CEO, Music Reports
Stan Liebowitz Professor of Economics, UT Dallas
Mary Madden Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American
Life Project John Simson Executive Director, SoundExchange
Koleman Strumpf Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
UNC Chapel Hill panelist bios
10:45
AM – 12:00 PM
Panel
2: The Business School of Rock
Most artists would rather be plucking strings than plugging
numbers into a Quicken file, but as the music landscape changes
it's more important than ever that performers take control of
their own business affairs. This panel brings together managers,
musicians, and label owners to talk about the benefits and drawbacks
of treating your band, or your artistic self, as a business
entity -- from managing your catalog and keeping track of revenue,
to getting your own health insurance policy.
Kristin Thomson Organizer, FMC (moderator)
Kim Coletta Desoto Records and band Jawbox Dave Frey Manager, Silent Partner Management Pat Irwin member of B-52's, film/TV music composer Alex Maiolo Co-owner, Lee Moore Insurance Brian Austin Whitney Founder, Just Plain Folks Shoshana Samole Zisk Attorney and Business Affairs, George
Clinton Enterprises panelist bios
12:30
PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
We have no formal lunch plans this year because of space considerations,
but there are plenty of options within walking distance of Lisner.
Brown Bag It!
12:45 – 1:30 PM We're organizing a couple of intimate brown bag sessions
that will happen across the street from Lisner at GWU's Marvin
Center. Likely topics on Sunday:
Marvin Center Room 309: SoundExchange: what is it, how
does it work, and why should musicians join? Neeta Ragoowansi SoundExchange John Simson Executive Director, SoundExchange
Marvin Center Room 310: Broadcast and Indecency: an update
about Congress and the FCC's recent crackdown on broadcast "indecency".
What legislation is being proposed, and what could be the effect
on musicians and performers? Ann Chaitovitz National Director of Sound Recordings,
AFTRA The sessions will be 45 minutes long and run concurrently
in 40-capacity meeting rooms over at Marvin Center. First come,
first serve seating.
Panel
3: This Panel Kills Fascists
Woody Guthrie was so convinced about the power of music to bring
political change that he wrote "This Machine Kills Fascists"
on his guitar. During the November 2003 Tell Us the Truth Tour,
eight musicians took to the road to play music and educate audiences
about media consolidation and American trade policy. In so doing
they extended the rich history of music and politics, yet the
first question they were asked by journalists was "why
be political?" From the gospel fuel of the civil rights
movement to the rock and roll psychedelia of the 60s anti-war
movement, from the anti-commercialism of punk to the anti-racism
and class consciousness of Rap and hip-hop…FMC knows music
and politics go together like peanut butter and chocolate. This
panel will remind us why.
Jenny Toomey Executive Director, FMC (moderator)
Danny Goldberg Chairman and CEO, Artemis Records
Paul Metsa musician/organizer, Raven Records
Alexis McGill Political Director, Hip Hop Summit Action
Network
Michael Muniz Director of Latin Organizing, AFM Jay Rosenthal Attorney, Recording Artists' Coalition,
Berliner Corcoran & Rowe, LLP Pat Thetic Anti-Flag/Punkvoter.com panelist bios
3:00
PM – 3:30 PM
Special
Interview
Rob Glaser CEO, Real Networks
will be interviewed by
Walter Mossberg Personal Technology Columnist, Wall Street
Journal
3:30 PM – 4:45
PM
Panel
4: The Celestial Jukebox: Fact, Fiction, Future?
2003 was another exciting year for legal digital downloads,
with the launch of the iTunes Store (and its many imitators),
Real's purchase of Rhapsody, the rebirth of Napster and rampant
rumors about the debut of Microsoft's competing music store.
2003 also saw a revitalized critique of these emerging technologies,
with some continuing to say that these legal stores will never
be able to compete with the plethora of free music available
on P2P networks, either on price or on sheer depth of catalog.
This panel takes a look at the ups and down of music’s
holy grail: the digital marketplace.
Brian Zisk Technologies Director, FMC (moderator) Kevin Arnold Founder, IODA (Independent Online Distribution
Alliance) Charlie Chan musician John Flansburgh Musician, They Might be Giants Tim Quirk Executive Editor, Music, Real Networks and
band Too Much Joy Derek Sivers president and programmer, CD Baby Holmes Wilson co-founder, Downhill Battle panelist bios
4:45 PM – 6:00
PM
Panel
5: Get In the Game (the Legislative Game, that is)
We all recognize that the only way that artists are guaranteed
to lose in the policy arena is if they fail to fully engage
in the process. But what does that mean? What issues should
artists and the music community be most concerned about in this
critical year? And, most importantly, how can artists and music
fans maximize their effectiveness in Washington, DC? A panel
of advocates, policymakers and artists will explore both the
policy challenges facing the music community and strategies
for truly making a difference.
Michael Bracy Government Relations, FMC (moderator)
Ann Chaitovitz National Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA Daryl Friedman Senior Executive Director, Washington
DC Operations, Recording Academy John Gray Political Director, Free Press Marcus Johnson Jazz Musician and CEO, Three Keys Music
Hal Ponder Director of Government Relations, AFM Rachel Welch Democratic Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee
panelist bios
6:00 PM – 8:00
PM
Cocktail Party hosted by ASCAP Grand Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the Marvin Center
Monday, May 3
7:30 AM – 9:00
AM
Check-in/Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:15
AM
Welcome by Michael Bracy
Government Relations Director, Future of Music Coalition
9:15 AM – 9:45
AM
Keynote Speech FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
9:45 AM – 11:00
AM
Panel
6: State of the Union
At every Future of Music Policy Summit, we ask a panel of experts
to address the fundamental question: What is the State of the
Union? From peer-to-peer file sharing and the related lawsuits,
to the emergence of legal download channels, to the media reform
movement and the continued mobilization of musician's rights
organizations, artists, policymakers and industry are working
overtime to adjust to a fluid marketplace. What accomplishments
should be celebrated? Where is there work yet to be done? For
the fourth year running FMC asks: what does 2004 hold in store
for musicians, consumers, and the music community?
Jim Griffin CEO, Cherry Lane Digital/Pho (moderator) Mike Dreese CEO and Co-Founder, Newbury Comics Peter Jenner Sincere Management and Chairman, AURA and
Chairman, IMMF Gary Shapiro President and CEO, Consumer Electronics
Association Cary Sherman President, Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA) Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz Talking Heads/Tom
Tom Club panelist bios
11:15AM – 12:30
PM
Panel
7: Alternative Compensation Systems
Peer-to-peer file sharing is, technically-speaking, a simple
and inexpensive way to distribute and share music. But since
peer-to-peer emerged, many in the music/technology space have
pondered this thought: Is there a way to transform this mechanism
of open sharing into a mechanism of the open market? This panel
looks at a number of developing proposals about how revenue
could be generated, collected, and distributed to artists and
rights holders from sharing on P2P networks.
Joseph Gratz Law Student, University of Minnesota (moderator)
Chris Amenita Senior Vice President, ASCAP Enterprises Group
William Terry Fisher Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Robert Kasunic Principal Legal Advisor, US Copyright
Office Jessica Litman Professor of Law, Wayne State University Neil Netanel Professor of Law, UCLA and University of
Texas Sandy Pearlman Vice President, Media Development, Multicast
Technologies panelist bios
12:30
PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
We have no formal lunch plans this year because of space considerations,
but there are plenty of options within walking distance of Lisner.
Brown Bag It!
12:45 – 1:30 PM We're organizing a couple of intimate, brown bag sessions
that will happen across the street from Lisner at GWU's Marvin
Center. Monday's topics to include:
Marvin Center Room 309: Radio update:
An update on FCC happenings, Low Power Radio & webcasting Pete Tridish Prometheus Radio Project
Marvin Center Room 310: Copyrights and
Copywrongs: what does the tension
between copyright extension and the creative commons mean for
musicians and creators? John Flansburgh Musician, They Might be Giants
Bill Thomas Fitch Thomas Management Siva Vaidhyanathan Assistant Professor, Department
of Culture and Communication, New York University
The sessions will be 45 minutes long and run concurrently in
meeting rooms over at Marvin Center. First come, first serve
seating.
Panel
8: Synergies or Antitrust: How does consolidation affect artists
and citizens?
The music industry is indicative of a broad societal paradox:
even as new technologies decrease the cost of production and
distribution of music, more and more of the music and entertainment
business is owned by fewer players. On one hand, independent
content flourishes in ways never before possible. On the other
hand, millions of citizens have protested the current ownership
structures where a handful of vertically integrated corporations
already sell tickets, promote concerts, program radio, own newspapers,
television stations, record labels and movie studios, and invest
heavily in emerging technologies like satellite radio and the
web. Has the increasing scale of these corporations allowed
for the flowering of independent content? Or are we tilting
dangerously toward a world where corporate control could stifle
creativity, culture and political discourse?
Thomas Frank Author and Editor, The Baffler (moderator) Wayne Crews Vice President, Regulatory Policy, Competitive
Enterprise Institute
Neil Glazer Director of Business Development and General
Counsel, Madison House/SCI Ticketing
Thomas Hazlett Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research
Seth Hurwitz Owner, IMP/9:30 Club Chellie Pingree President and CEO, Common Cause
Jim Winston Executive Director, National Association of
Black Owned Broadcasters panelist bios
3:00 PM – 3:30
PM
Keynote Speech
Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN)
3:45 PM – 4:45
PM
Panel
9: Into the Grey
During the "Illegal Imagination" panel at the 2003
Policy Summit, artists and copyright experts discussed the ways
that extensions of copyright law and the prohibitive licensing
fees might limit creativity. In February 2004, DJ Danger Mouse
took Jay-Z's Black Album and mixed it with The Beatles' White
Album to create…The Grey Album. The album, which the DJ
created and released without seeking consent from the copyright
owners, was barely made available before DJ Danger Mouse received
cease and desist letters from the Beatles' label, EMI. Clearly
these laws are not limiting creativity, nor are they impeding
circulation, but they are making it impossible to circulate
this type of creativity legally. What is lost and gained
in the mash-up phenomenon? Shouldn’t artists have the
right to control the tracks they've created? Is there a way
to harness the current mash-up enthusiasm to serve artists and
culture?
Walter McDonough General Counsel, FMC (moderator) David Carson General Counsel, US Copyright Office Christian Castle Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld LLP Barton Herbison Executive Director, Nashville Songwriters
Association International
Siva Vaidhyanathan Assistant Professor, Department of Culture
and Communication, New York University Suzanne Vega ASCAP songwriter, performer panelist bios
5:00 PM – 6:00
PM
Panel
10: Gazing Into the Crystal Ball
At the end of our two days, we turn away from the question of
what should happen to the question of what will
happen. From the FCC's efforts to address localism in media
and expand Low Power Radio, to the widely accepted notion that
a new Telecommunications Act is on the horizon, our panel of
policy experts will share their perspectives on where these
policy trends are heading and the impact that these decisions
will have on the music community.
Michael Bracy Government Relations, FMC (moderator)
Lee Carosi Majority Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee
Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN)
Adam Eisgrau Executive Director, P2P United
Cheryl Leanza Deputy Director, Media Access Project
Chris Murray Internet and Telecommunications Counsel, Consumers
Union
Gigi Sohn President, Public Knowledge panelist bios
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Cocktail Party hosted by Microsoft Grand Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the Marvin Center
