Copyright Workshop at AmU

This sounds most edifying:

Title: Paying Artists, Protecting Innovation: New Alternatives For Resolving the Digital Copyright Debate

Description:This is a one-day workshop to discuss the rights of writers, composers, musicians and moviemakers to obtain copyright licensing for use of their work online. Anyone interested in law, entertainment and technology should not miss this opportunity to learn about various forms of licensing and the practical and theoretical issues associated with their use. Although admission is free, seating is limited, so please reserve your place as soon as possible.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2002
WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW
4801 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW
ROOM 603
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Writers, composers, musicians and moviemakers have a right to be paid when
their work is used online as well as off. But life is not always so
fair. Peer-to-peer networks can make a mockery of this basic principle,
while efforts to “lock up” content have encountered a host of technological
and legal problems. The resulting clash of corporate and consumer interests
has proved rancorous, to say the least. But there is cause for hope.

Applying these familiar techniques in the Internet environment would give
rise to a number of interesting challenges. The one-day workshop described
in this brochure is the first attempt to gather a group of experts to
canvass various forms of licensing and the practical and theoretical issues
associated with their use.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 AM
COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
ED BLACK
PRESIDENT, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

9:45 – 11:00AM STATING THE PROBLEM
The Recording Industry Perspective: Cary Sherman, Recording Industry
Association of America

Technology Realities and Siren Song of DRM: Prof. Edward Felten, Princeton

Proposed Policy Solutions: Prof. Peter Jaszi, WCL

The Broadband Penetration Challenge: Sarah Deutsch, Verizon

Transaction Costs of Conventional Licensing: Rob Reid, Listen.com

Artists’ Perspectives: Jenny Toomey (Future of Music Coalition) and Ann
Chaitowitz (AFTRA)(invited)

11:00 AM – 11:15AM
COFFEE BREAK

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM HISTORICAL BACKROUND
Overview and International Perspective: Peter Jaszi

Legislative History: Mitch Glazier, RIAA

Cable/Satellite TV Licensing: Peter Huber, Esq., Kellogg, Huber, Hansen,
Todd & Evans

Pros and Cons of the Webcasting Experience: Jon Potter, DiMA

Performance Rights: Michael Remington, Esq. , Drinker, Biddle & Reath

Audio Home Recording Act (DART): Seth Greenstein, Esq., McDermott, Will & Emery

12:00 NOON – 1:00 PM
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

1:15 – 2:30 PM NEW APPROACHES
An Economist’s Overview: Bruce Abramson, Charles River Associates

New Business Opportunities: Steven Marks, RIAA

Music Industry Innovations: Jim Griffin, Cherry Lane Digital

Intellectual Property Use Fee: Phil Corwin, Esq., Butera & Andrews

The Blur/ Banff Proposal: Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology

Other Licensing Alternatives: Will Rodger, CCIA

Comments from: Elliott Van Buskirk (CNET)(invited), Kenneth Hertz, Esq.
(Goldring Hertz Lichtenstein and Haft),
Bruce Abramson (Charles River Associates)

2:30 – 3:00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
PROF. NEIL NETANEL
UNIVERSITY. OF TEXAS
“IMPOSE NONCOMMERCIAL USE LEVY TO ALLOW FREE P2P FILE-SWAPPING AND MIXING”

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
BREAK

3:15 – 4:00 PM ADMINISTRATION ISSUES ROUNDTABLE
Ron Gertz (Music Reports), Peter Harter (Emusic.com) Michael Remington,
John Simson (Sound Exchange), and
Marc Rotenberg (Electronic Privacy Information Center)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
GENERAL DISCUSSION

4:30 PM
RECEPTION
REGISTRATION
FORM
PAYING ARTISTS,
PROTECTING INNOVATION

If you are in the DC area, check it out.