Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Georgetown University (May 2-3, 2004)

Themes: Data involved in artist compensation, technology and data, importance of musicians taking over their business affairs, music and politics, pros and cons of a digital marketplace for Music (launch of iTunes), applicable policy issues and policy making, revenue from open sharing technology, copyright extension and creative commons, corporate control and creativity, rights involved in the mash-up phenomenon, the future of music policy trends 

Speakers, Panels: 

• Keynote: Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
• Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
  • Moderator: Jim Griffin (CEO, Cherry Lane Digital/Pho)
  • Ron Gertz (President and CEO, Music Reports), Stan Liebowitz (Professor of Economics, UT Dallas), Mary Madden (Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life), John Simson (Executive Director, SoundExchange), Koleman Strumpf (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UNC Chapel Hill
• The Business School of Rock
  • Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Organizer, FMC)
  • Kim Coletta (Desoto Records and band Jawbox), Dave Frey (Silent Partner Management), Pat Irwin (member of B-52’s, film/TV composer), Alex Maiolo (Co-owner, Lee Moore Insurance), Brian Austin Whitney (Founder, Just Plain Folks), Shoshana Samole Zisk (Business Affairs, George Clinton Enterprises)
• Brown Bag Lunch Sessions
  • SoundExchange: what is it, how does it work, and why should musicians join?
    • Neeta Ragawoonsi and John Simson (SoundExchange)
  • Broadcast and Indecency: an update about Congress and the FCC’s recent crackdown on broadcast “indecency.” What legislation is being proposed, and what could be the effect on musicians and performers?
    • Ann Chaitovitz (National Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA)
• This Panel Kills Fascists
  • Moderator: Jenny Toomey (Executive Director, FMC)
  • Danny Goldberg (Chairman and CEO, Artemis Records), Paul Metsa (musician/organizer, Raven Records), Alexis McGill (Political Director, Hip Hop Summit Action Network), Michael Muniz (Director of Latin Organizing, AFM), Jay Rosenthal (Attorney, Recording Artists’ Coalition, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe, LLP), Pat Thetic (Anti-Flag/Punkvoter.com)
• Special Interview
  • Rob Glaser (CEO, RealNetworks) interviewed by Walter Mossberg (Personal Technology Columnist, Wall Street Journal)
• The Celestial Jukebox: Fact, Fiction, Future?
  • Moderator: Brian Zisk (Technologies Director, FMC)
  • Kevin Arnold (Founder, Independent Online Distribution Alliance), Charlie Chan (Australian musician), John Flansburgh (musician, They Might be Giants), Tim Quirk (Executive Editor, Music, RealNetworks), Derek Sivers (President and programmer, CD Baby), Holmes Wilson (Co-founder, Downhill Battle)
• Get In the Game (the Legislative Game, that is)
  • Moderator: Michael Bracy (Government Relations, FMC), Ann Chaitovitz (National Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA), Daryl Friedman (Sr Exec.Director, Washington DC Operations, Recording Academy), John Gray (Political Director, Free Press), Marcus Johnson (Jazz Musician and CEO, Three Keys Music), Hal Ponder (Director of Government Relations, AFM), Rachel Welch (Minority Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee)
• Keynote Speech: FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
• State of the Union
  • Moderator: Jim Griffin (Cherry Lane Digital/Pho)
  • Mike Dreese (CEO and Co-Founder, Newbury Comics), Peter Jenner (Sincere Management and Chairman, AURA & IMMF), Gary Shapiro (President/CEO, Consumer Electronics Association), Cary Sherman (President, Recording Industry Association of America), Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz (Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club)
• Alternative Compensation Systems
  • Moderator: Joseph Gratz (Law Student, University of Minnesota)
  • Chris Amenita (Senior Vice President, ASCAP Enterprises Group), William Terry Fisher (Professor of Law, Harvard Law School), Rob Kasunic (Principal Legal Advisor, US Copyright Office), Jessica Litman (Professor of Law, Wayne State University), Neil Netanel (Professor of Law, UCLA and University of Texas), Sandy Pearlman (VP, Media Development, Multicast Technologies)
• Brown Bag Lunch Sessions
  • Update on FCC happenings, Low Power Radio & webcasting
    • Pete Tridish (Prometheus Radio Project)
  • What does the tensions between copyright extension and the creative commons mean for musicians and creators?
    • John Flansburgh (Musician, They Might Be Giants), Bill Thomas (Fitch Thomas Management), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Professor, Culture and Communication, NYU)
• Synergies or Antitrust: How does consolidation affect artists and citizens?
  • Moderator: Thomas Frank (Author and Editor, The Baffler)
  • Wayne Crews (Vice President, Regulatory Policy, Competitive Enterprises Institute), Neil Glazer (Director of Business Development and General Counsel, Madison House/SCI Ticketing), Thomas Hazlett (Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research), Seth Hurwitz (Owner, IMP/9:30 Club), Chellie Pingree (President and CEO, Common Cause), Jim Winston (Executive Director, NABOB)
• Into the Grey
  • Moderator: Walter McDonough (General Counsel, FMC)
  • David Carson (General Counsel, US Copyright Office), Christian Castle (Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld), Barton Herbison (Executive Director, Nashville Songwriters Association), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Professor, Culture and Communication, NYU), Suzanne Vega (ASCAP songwriter, performer)
• Gazing Into the Crystal Ball
  • Lee Carosi (Majority Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee), Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN), Adam Eisgrau (Executive Director, P2P United), Cheryl Leanza (Deputy Director, Media Access Project), Chris Murray (Internet and Telecommunications Counsel, Consumers Union), Gigi Sohn (President, Public Knowledge)

Sponsors: Center for the Public Domain, ASCAP, Microsoft, Newbury Comics, P2P United, American Federation of Musicians, Recording Artists’ Coalition, AFTRA, Public Knowledge, The Recording Academy, BMI, DMusic, Star Polish, Indie-Music.com, Just Plain Folks Music Organization, CD Baby, Multicast Technologies