Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Georgetown University (January 5-7, 2003)
Themes: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Digital Rights Management, Digital Distribution, Webcasting, Retail in the 21st Century, Music & Technology, Radio Deregulation
Speakers, Panels:
- Keynotes: Jonathan Adelstein (FCC Commissioner), Sen. Russ Feingold,
- Panel 101: The Business of Music
- Moderator: Suzette Becker (Attorney, Becker Entertainment / Internet Law)
- Whitney Broussard (Partner, Selverne Mandelbaum & Mintz), Dina LaPolt (Attorney, LaPolt Law), Derek Sivers (President & Programmer, CD Baby), Brian Austin Whitney (Founder, Just Plain Folks)
- Making Your Laws
- Moderator: Johnny Temple (Musician and Publisher)
- Michael Bracy (Director of Government Relations, FMC), Jim Burger (Member, Dow Lohnes and Albertson), David Meinert (Chair of the Advocacy Committee for the Pacific Northwest Branch of the Recording Academy and Owner/ President of Fuzed Music), Steve Picou (Assistant Director, Louisiana Music Commission), Patricia Polach (Attorney, Bredhoff & Kaiser), Tim Raduca-Grace (Office of Senator Feingold), Jay Rosenthal (Attorney, Recording Artists Coalition, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP)
- Artist Roundtable panel
- Moderator: Ian MacKaye (Dischord Records / Fugazi)
- Joan Jett (Musician, songwriter), Bob Mould (Musician, songwriter), Vernon Reid (Musician, songwriter), Patti Smith (Musician, songwriter)
- State of the Union
- Moderator: Rick Karr (Cultural Trends Correspondent, NPR News)
- Eric Bazilian (Musician, songwriter), Yochai Benkler (Professor, NYU School of Law), L. Londell McMillan (Attorney, L. Londell McMillan, PC), Vernon Reid (Musician, songwriter), Robert Santelli (Director and CEO, Experience Music Project), Cary Sherman (President and General Counsel, RIAA), Jenny Toomey (Executive Director, FMC)
- The Tangled Web of Webcasting
- Moderator: Dawn Chmielewski (San Jose Mercury News)
- Cassandra Cummings (Business Development Manager, Microsoft), Marshall Eubanks (CEO, Multicast Technologies), William Terry Fisher (Professor of Law, Harvard Law School), Bill Goldsmith (Partner, Radioparadise.com), Kurt Hanson (Publisher, Radio and Internet Newsletter), Marybeth Peters (Register, US Copyright Office), John Simson (Executive Director, SoundExchange)
- Roundtable Discussion on the Public Performance Royalty
- Moderator: Peter Jenner (Chairman, AURA; Chairman, IMMF)
- Ken Kaufman (Partner, Skadden Arps), Steven Metalitz (Senior Vice President, International Intellectual Property Alliance), Richard Owens (Head, Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division, World Intellectual Property Organization), Perry Resnick (RZO / Music Managers Forum – US), Eamon Shackleton (Head of Legal Affairs, Irish Music Rights Organization)
- Illegal Imagination
- Moderator: Ira Glass (Host, This American Life)
- John Perry Barlow (Co-Founder, EFF and lyricist), Alfonzo Blackwell (Musician), Glenn Otis Brown (Executive Director, Creative Commons), Doug E. Fresh (Musician), Gigi Sohn (President, Public Knowledge), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, NYU)
- Retail in the 21st Century
- Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Organizer, FMC)
- Mike Dreese (CEo and Co-Founder, Newbury Comics), John Flansburgh (Musician, They Might Be Giants), Michael Hausman (President, SuperEgo Records/United Musicians), Pam Horovitz (President, NARM), Patrick Monaghan (President, CTD Limited), Tim Quirk (Director of Editorial/Music Programming, Listen.com)
- Major Labels: Can they Innovate?
- Moderator: Jim Griffin (CEO, Cherry Lane Digital/Pho)
- Rosemary Carroll (Partner, Codikow, Carroll, Guido and Groffman), Jim Coopermam (Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs, BMG), Peter Jenner (Chairman, AURA; Chairman, IMMF), Sandy Pearlman (Vice President, Media Development, Multicast Technologies)
- Complete Control
- Moderator: Brian Zisk (Technologies Director, FMC)
- Mark Cooper (Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America), Sarah Deustch (Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications), Jane Ginsburg (Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property, Columbia University Law School), Joe Kraus (Co-Founder, Digitalconsumer.org), Bruce Lehman (President, International Intellectual Property Institute), Andy Moss (Director of Technical Policy, Microsoft)
- Musicians and Health Insurance
- Moderator: Tim Quirk (Listen.com)
- Jim Brown (Director, Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center), Anna Chaitovitz (Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA), Alex Maiolo (Co-owner, Lee-Moore Insurance), Linda Philips (President, Nuçi Phillips Memorial Foundation), Dr. Susan Raeburg (Licensed Clinical Psychologist), David Sterling (President, Music-Pro Insurance), Peyton Wimmer (Director, Doug Sahm Musician’s Health Clinic)
- Radio: Consolidate or Regulate?
- Moderator: John Nichols (Writer, The Nation)
- Lee Abrams (Chief Programming Officer, XM Satellite Radio), Pat Aufderheide (Professor and Director, Center for Social Media, American University), Peter DiCola (Director of Economic Analysis, FMC), Adam Thierer (Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute), George Williams (Senior Economist, FCC)
- 2003 Policy Agenda
- Moderator: Bill Holland (Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard)
- Kevin Murray (California State Senator; Chair, Select Committee on Entertainment Industry), Debra Rose (Counsel, Subcommittee on the Courts, Internet and Intellectual Property), Andy Schwartzman (President and CEO, Media Access Project)
- The Search for a Legitimate Digital Marketplace
- Moderator: Walter McDonough (General Counsel, FMC)
- Chris Amenita (Senior Vice President, Enterprises Group, ASCAP), Richard Conlon (VP of Marketing and Business Development, BMI), Chris Israel (Assistant Deputy Secretary for Technology Policy, Department of Commerce), Vincent Peppe (Legal Counsel, Licensing, SESAC), David Post (Professor of Law, Temple University
Sponsors: Georgetown University Law Center Continuing Legal Education Program, Microsoft, ASCAP, Pearl Jam, Center for the Public Domain, The Recording Academy, Entertainment Industry Foundation, BMI, DMusic, SESAC, Neuros, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), American Federation of Musicians (AFM), CD Baby, Epiphone, EFF, Just Plain Folks, Multicast Technologies