Stellar panelists.
Peter Alyea Digital Conversion Specialist, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound, Library of Congress
Paul Anthony CEO, Rumblefish
Eric Baptise Director General, CISAC
David Basskin President, Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency
David Beal President, National Geographic Music and Radio
Richard Bengloff President, American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
Charles Bissell Musician, The Wrens
David Bither Senior Vice President, Nonesuch Records
Mario Bouchard General Counsel, Copyright Board of Canada
Michael Bracy Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition
Rudy Brioche Legal Advisor, Federal Communications Commission
Whitney Broussard Owner, Whitney Broussard Consulting
Jennifer Buzzell Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Strathmore Arts Center
Bryan Calhoun Label Management Systems
Rosemary Carroll Esq. Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP
Ann Chaitovitz Attorney-Advisor, US Patent and Trademark Office
Scott Cleland Chairman, NetCompetition.org
Aaron Cooper Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee
Brian Dear Founder and Chairman, Eventful, Inc.
Kenneth DeGraff Senior Policy Advisor, Vice-Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Corey Denis Vice President, reapandsow.com
Mike Dreese Co-founder and CEO, Newbury Comics Inc.
Jonathan Eaton Musician, Spinto Band
Sarah Faulder Public Affairs Director, MCPS-PRS Alliance
David Freedman General Manager, WWOZ Jazz and Heritage Station
Pinky Gonzales Director of Business Development, Echomusic
Peter Gordon President, Thirsty Ear
Jim Griffin CEO, Onehouse
Peter Gutmann Member, Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC
Wayne Halper Attorney, Law Office of Wayne Halper
David Harrell Musician, The Layaways and blogger at digitalaudioinsider.com
E. Michael Harrington Professor of Entertainment and Music Business, Belmont University
Henry Harris President, Spirit Enterprise Inc., Spiritco1 Christian internet radio
Michael Hausman President, Michael Hausman Artist Management
Dick Huey CEO, Toolshed, Inc.
Ariel Hyatt Founder, Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR
Richard Jankovich Musician, Burnside Project and Director of A&R and Licensing, Rumblefish
Peter Jaszi Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson IP Clinic, American University
Rick Karr Journalist and Educator, neuUNIT(U.S.), Inc. and Columbia University
Robert Kaye Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator, MusicBrainz
John P. Kellogg, Esq. Assistant Chair, Music Business/Management, Berklee College of Music
Jon Kertzer Senior Music Programmer, Zune/Microsoft
Lady Miss Kier Singer/songwriter/producer, Dee-lish Publishing, Deee-lite
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Nick Krill Musician, Spinto Band
Chris MacDonald General Counsel, Association of Music Podcasting/Indiefeed podcast
Josh Madell Co-owner, Other Music
Rachel Masters Director of Strategic Relationships, Ning
Mac McCaughan Musician and Co-owner, Merge Records
Walter McDonough General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition
Charlie McEnerney Producer + Host, Well-Rounded Radio
Kembrew McLeod Asst Professor, University of Iowa
Oliver Metzger Policy Planning Advisor, US Copyright Office
Bob Mould Musician
Sean Murphy Treasurer, Princeton Broadcasting Service, WPRB-FM
Franz Nicolay Musician, The Hold Steady, Anti-Social Music
Sean O'Connell President, Music Allies
Jason Oxman Vice President, Communications, Consumer Electronics Association
Skip Pizzi Manager, Technical Policy, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division
Lou Plaia Co-Founder / VP Artist Development, Reverbnation.com
Patricia Polach Associate General Counsel, AFM / Bredhoff and Kaiser, PLLC
Jonathan Potter Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Tim Quirk Vice President of Music Programming, Rhapsody
Jessica Rosenworcel Senior Communications Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee
Portia Sabin President, Kill Rock Stars
Steve Savoca International Director, Digital, Domino Recording Co.
Mike Schmidt Office of Senator Feingold (D-WI)
Ben Scott Policy Director, Free Press
Rachel Segal Artist Relations / Marketing Manager, MusicIP
Michael Selverne Managing Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum and Mintz, LLP
Daniel Sheehy Director and Curator, Smithsonian Global Sound
Molly Sheridan Managing Editor, NewMusicBox.org, Producer, counterstreamradio.org, American Music Center
Ralph Simon Chairman Emeritus and Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum, Mobilium Group and The MEF
John Simson Executive Director, SoundExchange
Gigi Sohn President, Public Knowledge
Atesh Sonneborn Associate Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Patrick Sullivan Principal, RightsFlow
Michael Taft Head of the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center
Jenny Toomey Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
Anastasia Tsioulcas Music journalist, Billboard/Cafe Aman
Marcy Rauer Wagman Program Director, Music Industry, Drexel University, CEO, Mad Dragon Unltd.
Chuck Walker Director of Licensing, Muzak
Tim Westergren Founder, Pandora
Tim Wu Professor, Columbia Law School
Billy Zero Program Director, XMU, XM Satellite Radio
Brian Zisk Technologies Director, Future of Music Coalition
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None more excellent.
Widely praised by advocates and industry alike, FMC’s Policy Summits have gained a reputation as "a kind of Geneva where all sides in any number of contentious music industry fights can get together and play nice for a few days. Even more importantly, it offers pinstriped Washingtonians a rare opportunity to hear musicians articulate their concerns in person instead of relying on competing lobbying groups that claim to espouse their interests."
Washington Post, 2004
"...the coalition's organizers are due a great deal of credit for representing a constituency that is often invoked by others but not represented."
Washington Post, 2004
"As independent artists develop and discover shortcuts to get their music out in spite of an inequitable and often corrupt industry, conferences like the FMC's go a long way toward providing them a map." Village Voice, 2005
"You know the time between when a record leaves the artist's hands and before it gets to listener's ears? The Summit covers everything that happens in between."
Pitchfork, 2005
We hope you can join us in 2008.
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The program.
The Summit is always programmed to react quickly to issues emerging from Congress, the courts, the Copyright Office, and from the international stage. Programming for this year included:
- Copyright and licensing issues
- Performance royalties
- Network neutrality and broadband policy
- FCC's "rules of engagement" on payola
- The state of retail
- Sample clearance licensing process
- Technologies that are bringing artists and fans closer together
- The explosion of niche market genres
- Wireless/music portability
- Major label contracts revisited
- The challenges of cultural preservation
...and much more. See the schedule here.
Musicians' scholarships.
FMC offers scholarships to every event to make sure that musicians are not left out of the music/technology debate. Thanks to some generous contributions from foundations, technology companies, sponsors, and musician advocacy groups, 100 musicians will be able to attend this event for free. All of these scholarships had been awarded by September 9.
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