Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Georgetown University (January 7-8, 2002)

Speakers, Panels:

• Keynotes: Rep. Rick Boucher (Co-Chair, Congressional Internet Caucus), Kevin Murray (CA State Senator; Chair, Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry), Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (Ranking Minority Member, House Judiciary Committee), Konrad Hilbers (CEO, Napster)
• The State of the Union
  • Moderator: Whitney Broussard (Attorney, Selverene Mandelbaum & Mintz)
  • Marilyn Bergman (President, ASCAP), Mark Cuban (Founder, Broadcast.com), Marybeth Peters (Registrar, US Copyright Office), Jonathan Potter (Executive Director, Digital Media Association (DIMA)), Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley, SIMS), Cary Sherman (Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA)
• Taking Care of Business: Traditional Music Business Models
  • Moderator: Dave Marsh (journalist, critic)
  • Jay Cooper (Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips), Pat DiNizio (The Smithereens / XM Radio), Dean Kay (ASCAP), Jon Langford (The Mekons), Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock), Toshi Reagon (singer/songwriter), David Sanjek (BMI Archivist and Author), Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys / Akashic Books)
• To Legislate or Not to Legislate: Government’s Role in the Music/Tech Debate
  • Moderator: Bill Holland (Billboard Magazine)
  • Yochai Benkler (Professor, NYU Law School), Anna Chaitovitz (Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA), Manus Cooney (VP Corporate & Policy Development, Napster), Peter Jaszi (American University, Washington College of Law), Walter McDonough (General Counsel, FMC), Debra Rose (Counsel, House Subcommittee on Courts, Internet & Intellectual Property)
• Competitive Licenses
  • Moderator: Ric Dube (Fenway Recordings)
  • Chris Amenita (VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP), David Carson (General Counsel, US Copyright Office), Richard Conlon (VP Marketing and Business Development, BMI), Ron Gertz (President, Music Reports), Rob Reid (Founder and Chairman, Listen.com), Charles J. Sanders (Senior Vice President of Legal and International Affairs, NMPA), John Simson (Director of Artist & Label Relations, Sound Exchange)
• Roadblocks to Copying: A Help or Hindrance to Market Growth
  • Moderator: Brian Zisk (Technologies Director, FMC)
  • John T. Baker IV (President & CEO, Loudeye), Jim Burger (Attorney, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson), Ted Cohen (VP of New Media, EMI Recorded Music), Alan Davidson (Associate Director and Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology), Edward Felten (Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University), Robin Gross (Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation), Ted Tanner (Audio-Video Architecture Strategist, Microsoft Corporation)
• Major Label Panel
  • Moderator: Eric Boehlert (Salon.com)
  • Miles Copeland (Ark21 Records), Danny Goldberg (President, Artemis Records), Hilary Rosen (President and CEO, RIAA), Tom Silverman (CEO, Tommy Boy Records)
• The New Pipeline
  • Moderator: Rick Karr (Cultural Correspondent, NPR News)
  • Colleen Anderson (Business Development Manager, MSN Music), Marshall Eubanks (Multicast Technologies), Dave Farber (Penn Initiative for Markets, Technology and Policy), Pma Horovitz (President, NARM), Phil Leigh (Vice President, Raymond James & Associates), Sandy Pearlman (VP Media Development, Moodlogic.com), Derek Sivers (CD Baby)
• The Global Exchange: International Perspectives on Digital Issues
  • Moderator: Jim Griffin (CEO, Cherry Lane Digital)
  • Dagfinn Bach (Artspages.org), Brian Chater (President, CIRPA), Peter Jenner (Chairman, AURA), Jon Kertzer (Director, Smithsonian Global Sound), Brian Robertson (President, Canadian Recording Industry Association)
• The Copyright Bargain
  • Moderator: Jessica Litmen (Professor of Law, Wayne State University)
  • John Perry Barlow (Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation), Jon Baumgarten (Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP), David Bollier (Co-Founder, Public Knowledge), Adam Eisgrau (Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University), Bruce Lehman (International Intellectual Property Institute), Michael Tiemann (CTO, Red Hat)
• New Models
  • Moderator: Jenny Toomey (FMC)
  • Tim Bierman (Pearl Jam “Ten Club” manager), Jose Bowen (Director of Music Program, Department of Art, Music & Theatre), David Fagin (The Rosenbergs), Ian MacKaye (Dischord Records / Fugazi), Amy Ray (The Indigo Girls / Daemon Records), Vivek Tiwary (Star Polish)
• A More Perfect Union
  • Moderator: Ann Powers (Experience Music Project)
  • Jim Guerinot (Rebel Waltz Management), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana / JAMPAC), Jay Rosenthal (Recording Artist Coalition), John McCutcheon (folkmusic.com / AFM local 1000), Jonathan Tasini (National Writer’s Union), Joe Uehlein (Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL-CIO), Brian Austin Whitney (Just Plain Folks)