Future of Music Policy Summit 2005 Survey

Attendance
This was our fifth Policy Summit in DC. We've also done events at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, Experience Music Project in Seattle, and at Loyola in New Orleans. Have you attended other FMC Policy Summits or events?

I did not attend this year's Policy Summit because...

If you answered "other", please give a reason here:

Event Date
This year's Summit was scheduled for mid-September on a Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Is this a convenient time of year to hold this event and, if not, do you have other suggestions?

Event Cost
FMC Summit basic registration price was $149 for three days or $99 for one day. We also offered a discounted student rate of $99 for three days or $66 for one day. Attorneys seeking CLE credit could register for $599 and gain up to 16.5 credit hours.

In addition, we worked with many sponsors to fund an artist scholarship fund. This year, we were able to offer 200 working musicians free access to the Summit. However, we were unable to offset the costs of travel and accommodations.

Are these registration prices and options reasonable? If not, what should they be? Sure, "free" is an answer here, but an event like this has significant costs including rent of all GWU facilities, crew and technology.

Programming
This year's Summit included panels on new business models, intellectual property post-Grokster, payola, sampling, digital and terrestrial distribution; breakout sessions on broadcast indecency, how to promote and sell your music online, how to podcast/music blog, how to work with the PROs, Section 115, the ethics of contract negotiation; keynote speeches from Senator Maria Cantwell, Representatives Boucher and Slaughter and FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, and a special conversation about sampling with P-Funk's George Clinton and Public Emeny's Hank Schocklee. Review program here

What or who are we missing? What would make the program stronger or more compelling?

Outreach
FMC's outreach plan for this Summit included outreach via a comprehensive email and mail campaigns, PSAs, press releases, posters, ad swaps and flyers. We made the Summit the primary element on the FMC home page. We reached out to dozens of bloggers and journalists. We built a MySpace page. What other outreach elements could we implement?

If you did hear about Summit before it occurred, how? Where?

How do you like to receive info about events like this?

Future Attendance
Would you consider attending a future Policy Summit in DC?

Is there something we could do or change related to the Summit that would make you want to attend?

General Comments
Anything else about the Policy Summit or FMC in general?

What to you do?
My current role in the music/tech industry is:

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