Future of Music Policy Summit, McGill University, Schulich School of Music (October 5-7, 2006)
Themes: Canadian artists gaining international recognition, major label mergers, consumer activism, revenue from digital streams and sales, falling recording and distribution costs, opportunities for the classical space, radio industry now and in the future, music preservation, production quality, international touring, easy creation and dissemination on the internet, digital rights management, new tastemaking tools, young musicians, the Francophone music industry, music and gaming, recommendation engines, online publishing, licensing and selling music online, copyright law, peer-to-peer sharing, EDP producers, sampling, independent artists, policymaking arena,
Speakers, Panels:
- State of the Nation
- Graham Henderson (President, Canadian Recording Industry Association), Peter Jenner (Manager, Sincere Management/Secretary General, International Music Manager’s Forum), Andrée Menard (Executive Director, MusicAction), Catharine Saxberg (Executive Director, Canadian Music Publishers Association), Paul Spurgeon (Vice President, Legal Services & General Counsel, SOCAN)
- Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age
- Moderator: Walter McDonough (General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition)
- Kevin Arnold (Founder/CEO, IODA), David Basskin (President, CMRRA Ltd.), Dave Frey (Team Leader, Silent Partner Management), Bob Kohn (Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare, Inc.)
- Record Companies: Who Needs Them?
- David Byrne (Lead Singer and Guitarist, Talking Heads)
- Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change
- Moderator: Jean Cook (Outreach Director, Future of Music Coalition)
- Raymond Bisha (Radio Promotions Manager – North America, Naxos), Denys Bouliane (Professor, McGill University / Schulich School of Music), Laura Brownell (Director Symphonic Services Division, American Federation of Musicians), Erik Gilbert (VP Content Acquisition, IODA), Joseph H. Kluger (Associate, AEA Consulting), Margo Saulnier (Assistant Director of Artistic Planning, Boston Pops)
- Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future
- Moderator: Michael Bracy (Policy Director and Co-founder, Future of Music Coalition)
- Michael Arpin (Vice-chairman, Broadcasting and member of the Commission, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission), Terryl Brown Clemons (Assistant Deputy General, Office of the Attorney General of New York), Peter DiCola (Research Director, Future of Music Coalition), Glenn O’Farrell (President, Canadian Association of Broadcasters), Heather Ostertag, C.M. (President and CEO, FACTOR), Chip Sutherland (Executive Director, Radio Starmaker Fund)
- Losing Music: Preservation and Storage
- Moderator: Ken Freedman (Station Manager, WFMU)
- John Black (Audio-Visual Collections and Services Coordinator, Marvin Duchow Music Library of McGill University), Stewart Cheifet (Director, Audio & Video, Internet Archive), Geoff Farina (Musician), Richard Green (Acting Manager, Music Section, Library and Archives Canada)
- What’s Wrong With Music?
- Moderator: Sandy Pearlman (Visiting Professor, McGill University and Producer, Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash)
- Paul Hoffert (Composer, Recording Artist, Professor, Harvard University, York University), Daniel Levitin (Professor, McGill University), Gary Lucas (Composer, Producer, Songwriter, Recording Artist, Mighty Quinn Records), Susan Rogers (Producer (Prince, David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies, Tricky) and Fellow, CIRMMT, McGill University), Jessica Thomposon (Mastering Engineer, Peerless Mastering)
- International Touring and Visas
- Moderator: Bertis Downs (Advisor, R.E.M./Athens, LLC)
- Alexandre Auché (Booking Agent, High Food International Booking Agency), Nick Diamonds (Musician, Islands), Sandra Gibson (President and CEO, Association of Performing Arts Presenters), Laurent Saulnier (VP Programming, Festival International de Jazz de Montreal), Alan Willaert (International Representative, American Federation of Musicians)
- Meet the Mini-Me-Dia
- Moderator: Andrew Rose (New Media, Pop Montreal / Secret City Records)
- Daniel Beirne (Said the Gramophone), Matthew Perpetua (Editor, Fluxblog), Helen Spitzer (Freelance Music Critic, Eye Weekly), Marie-Chantale Turgeon (Blogger & New Media Consultant, Vu d’ici – Seem From Here Blog), Carl Wilson (Writer, The Globe and Mail; Zoilus.com)
- Special Conversation: Consumer Electronics Association
- Michael Petricone (Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association), Jim Griffin (CEO, Onehouse and Founder, Pho list)
- Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability
- Moderator: Brian Zisk (Co-founder and Technologies Director, Future of Music Coalition)
- Stacy Baird (Technology and Intellectual Property Consultant, former Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and advisor to U.S. Congressman Howard Berman), Edward Felten (Professorr of Computer Science and Public Affairs Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University), Alistair Mitchell (CEO, Puretracks Inc.), Barry B. Sookman (Partner, McCarthy Tétrault), Rob Wetstone (Vice President, Label Relations, eMusic)
- The New Deciders: Metafulters, Blogs, Podcasts
- Moderator: Patti Schmidt (Producer, CBC’s Brave New Waves)
- Grant Lawrence (Radio Host, CBC Radio 3), Mac McCaughan (Merge Records; Superchunk, Portastatic), Tim Quirk (VP, Music Content and Programming, RealNetworks, Inc.), Ryan Schreiber (Editor and Founder, Pitchfork Media), Frank Yang (Publisher, Chromewaves.net)
- Young Musicians
- Moderator: Chris Taylor (Lawyer, Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein, Entertainment Lawyers)
- Torquil Campbell (Musician, Stars), Mathieu Cournoyer (Musician, Malajube), Brian Current (Composer), Bernadette Houde (Musician, Lesbians On Ecstasy)
- Le Boutique Québécoise: The Vibrant Francophone Music Industry
- Moderator: Pierre-Daniel Rheault (Composer, President, SPACQ)
- Jean-Robert Bisaillon (Founder, SOPREF/YouYou Veille stratégique), Gourmet Délice (Manager/Record label, Bonsound/Blow the Fuse), Martin Merlino (Marketing and Promotion Director, Audiogram Records)
- Avatars with Guitars: Music for Games
- Moderator: Chris Dahlen (Contributing Writer, Paste Magazine, Pitchforkmedia.com)
- Noémie Dupuy (Partner, Wave Generation), Michael McCann (Producer / Composer, Behavior Music Inc.), Mike McHargue (President, Pixel Records, Inc.), Simon Pressey (Technical & Artistic Director of Audio, Ubisoft)
- Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery
- Moderator: Mike McGuire (VP Mobile Devices and Consumer Services, Gartner)
- Matthew Dunn (CEO, MusicIP), Darren Jukes (VP Marketing, Audiobaba Music Genie), Daniel Levitin (Professor, McGill University), Benjamin Masse (President and Founder, Double V3), Steve Skrzyniarz (CEO, Soundflavor)
- Publishers: The New Record Label?
- Paul Anthony (Founder, Rumblefish), Patrick Curley (President, Third Side Music), Michael Hausman (Owner, Michael Hausman Artist Management, Inc.), Stacey Mitsopulos (Lawyer, Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein, Entertainment Lawyers), Terry O’Brien (Relationship Manager, SOCAN)
- DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online
- Moderator: Dick Huey (CEO, Toolshed Inc.)
- Brian Camelio (President, ArtistShare), Shannon Coulter (Director of A&R, Magnatune.com), Nathaniel Krenkel (Label Head, Team Love), Lindsay Lynch (Operations Manager, MapleMusic.com), Jamie Pearlman (Director of Business Development – Retail Partners, Snocap), Derek Sivers (President and Programmer, CD Baby)
- “…In Perfect Harmony”: International Copyright Issues
- Moderator: Ann Chaitovitz (Attorney-Advisor, US Patent and Trademark Office)
- Eric Baptiste (Director General, CISAC), Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, Univ. of Ottawa), Laura Nenych (Professor, Ryerson University), Tim Quirk (GM, Msic Content and Programming, RealNetworks), Willem Wanrooij (Head Public Affairs, Buma/Stemra)
- Distribute. Share. Compensate: a presentation by William Terry Fisher (The Berkman Center, funded by the MacArthur Foundation)
- Could P2P Networks be Monetized?
- Moderator: Jim Griffin (CEO, Onehouse)
- Mario Bouchard (General Counsel, Copyright Board of Canada), Jeremy deBeer (Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law), Peter Jenner (Manager, Sincere Management/Secretary General, International Music Managers’ Forum), Sandy Pearlman (Visiting McGill Scholar and Producer, Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash), Richard Pfohl (General Counsel, Canadian Recording Industry Association), Leslie Poole (CEO, Javien Digital Payment Solutions, Inc.)
- String Recording Demonstration by Bob Ezrin (Producer, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, KISS)
- EDP: Supergroup
- Conducted by Rick Karr (PBS, NPR)
- Bob Ezrin, Don DeVito (Producer, Bob Dylan’s Desire), Sandy Pearlman
- Visual Re-mix: Sampling in a New Dimension
- Moderator: Tina Piper (Professor, McGill University School of Law)
- Brett Gaylor (Director, EyeSteelFilm), Hart Snider (Independent Filmmaker)
- A State of Independents: The Changing Definition of “Indie”
- Moderator: Jenny Toomey (Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition)
- Ian Ilavsky (Co-Owner, Constellation Records), Molly Neuman (Director Label Relations, eMusic), Jeffrey Remedios (Arts & Crafts Records), Jeff Waye (Label Owner, Ninja Tune / Big Dada / Counter / Third Side Music)
- Policymaking: How to Make an Impact
- Michael bracy (Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition), David Fewer (Staff Counsel, CIPPIC), Peter Grant (Attorney, McCarthy Tétrault), Keith Serry (Communications Director, Canadian Music Creators Coalition)
- How The Money Moves
- Moderator: Ann Chaitovitz (Attorney-Advisor, US Patent and Trademark Office)
- Mario Bouchard (General Counsel, Copyright Board of Canada), Michael Hausman (Owner, Michael Hausman Artist Management, Inc.), Marcy Rauer Wagman (Director, Music Industry Program, Drexel University/MAD Dragon)
Sponsors: McGill Schulich School of Music, Pop Montréal, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, Consumer Electronics Association, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Government of Canada (Department of Canadian Heritage), Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters, Smithsonian Global Sound, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings With Support From Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters, Buma/Stemra, American Federation of Musicians, SoundExchange, Soundflavor, RoyaltyShare, Inc., CD Baby, Merge Records, ArtistShare, SOCAN, Consumer Electronics Association, MusicIP, SOPREF, Revver, SoundFlavor, Rumblefish, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Epiphone Guitars, Exclaim!, ici by Quebecor Media, NOW, Nightlife Magazine, The New Pollution: New Music Review, MusicDish Network