Future of Music Policy Summit, George Washington University (September 11-13, 2005)

Themes: digital music production, digital distribution, online music promotion, MGM v. Grokster, copyright and sampling regulation, radio developments, artist compensation

Speakers, Panels:

• Keynotes: Jonathan Adelstein (FCC Commissioner), Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Guiding Artists Through Tremendous Change
  • Moderator: Eric Brace (Last Train Home and The Washington Post)
  • Charles Bissell (The Wrens), Bertis Downs (Advisor, R.E.M.), Michael Hausman (President, Michael Hausman Artist Management), Peter Jenner (Manager, Sincere Management/Secretary General, IMMF), Clyde Valentin (Director, Hip Hop Theater Festival), Shoshana Zisk (Management, George Clinton Enterprises)
• New Label/No Label Models
  • Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Organizer, FMC)
  • John Buckman (Founder/CEO, Magnatune), Brian Camelio (Owner, ArtistShare), Melissa Ferrick (Artist/CEO, Right on Records), Jerry Harrison (Multi-platinum producer, Chairman & Co-founder, GarageBand.com, member of Talking Heads), Joe Henry (ASCAP artist, songwriter/producer), Sam Jennings (Director, NPG Music Group Club)
• Music Policy 101
  • Moderator: Michael Bracy (Policy Director, FMC)
  • Fred Cannon (Senior Vice President of Government Relations, BMI), Mike Godwin (Legal Director, Public Knowledge), Rebecca Greenberg (National Director, Recording Artists’ Coalition), Mike Mills (Bass player, R.E.M.), Hal Ponder (Director of Government Relations (AFM), Johanna Shelton (Democratic Counsel, US House Energy and Commerce Committee)
• State of the Union
  • Moderator: Jim Griffin (CEO, Cherry Lane Digital)
  • Mitch Bainwol (Chairman and CEO, RIAA), Shawn Fanning (Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Snocap), Joe Henry (ASCAP artist, songwriter/producer), Andrew Moss (Senior Director, Technical Policy, Microsoft), Marybeth Peters (Register, US Copyright Office), Gary Shapiro (President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association)
• Is Digital Distribution a Good Deal for Artists?
  • Walter McDonough (General Counsel, FMC), Kevin Arnold (Founder/CEO, Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA)), Slim Moon (Owner, Kill Rock Stars), David Pakman (Managing Director, eMusic/Dimensional Associates), David Printis (President/CEO, DE-Urecords.com), Tim Quirk (GM, Music Content and Programming, RealNetworks)
• How to Promote and Sell Your Music Online
  • Host: Derek Sivers (CD Baby)
• Developer’s Roundtable
  • Host: Robert Kaye (Executive Director, Metabrainz Foundation)
• License to Cover: A Discussion about Section 115)
  • Moderator: Ken Kaufman (Partner, Skadden Arps)
  • David Jones (Counsel, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Senate Judiciary Committee), Jonathan Patter (Executive Director, Digital Media Association), Josh Wattles (Entertainment and Technology Attorney)
• How to Work with the Performance Rights Organizations
  • Moderator: Marcy Wagman (Director, Music Industry Program, Drexel University)
  • Samantha Cox (Senior Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, BMI), Marc Hutner (Associate Director of Membership Group/Creative Affairs, ASCAP), Gregory Riggle (Director of Broadcast Licensing, SESAC)
• Oh, Canada
  • Moderator: Walter McDonough (General Counsel, FMC)
  • David Basskin (President, Canadian Music Reproduction Rights Agency), Hon. Sarmite D. Bulte, PC (Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage), Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, University of Ottawa), Graham Henderson (President, Canadian Recording Industry Association)
• The Ethics of Contract Negotiation
  • Moderator: Duff Berschback (Entertainment attorney)
  • Barbie Baylis (Attorney, LaPolt Law), Bob Kohn (Chairman and CEO, RoyaltyShare; Author, Kohn on Music Licensing), John Stroh, (Attorney, Bradley Arant Rose and White; former member, Blake Babies)
• I am the DJ: Podcasting, Webcasting and Music Blogs
  • Moderator: Jon Kertzer (Business Development Manager, MSN Music; Host/producer, KEXP-Seattle)
  • Atri Chatterjee (Co-founder and VP Marketing, Mecora), Candance Corrigan (Songwriter/creator, “The Nashville Nobody Knows” podcast), Lucas Gonze (Creator, Webjay), Chris MacDonald (Co-founder, Indiefeed; Director of Legal Affairs and Compliance, Association of Music Podcasters), Steve Nelson (Program Director, The Current), Ali Partovi (CEO, GarageBand.com)
• Sampling and Shared Art
  • Moderator: Rick Karr (Former NPR cultural correspondent; Technopop)
  • Whitney Broussard (Partner, Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz), Jeff Chang (Author, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop), Shannon Emamali (Executive Director, DC Chapter, Recording Academy), Bob John (Chairman and CEO, RoyaltyShare; Author, Kohn on Music Licensing), Hank Shocklee (Music Industry Producer; Founder, Public Enemy; President, Shocklee Entertainment)
• Intellectual Property in a Post-Grokster World
  • Moderator: Preeta Bansal (Partner, Skadden Arps)
  • Chris Amenita (Senior VP, ASCAP Enterprises Group), Mia Garlick (General Counsel, Creative Commons), Cary Sherman (President, RIAA), Siva Vaidhyanathan (Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication, NYU), Don Verrilli (Partner, Jenner & Block), Fred von Lohmann (Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• The Changing Face of Distribution
  • Moderator: Brian Zisk (Technologies Director, FMC)
  • Jim Donion (President, National Association of Recording Merchandisers), Derek Sivers (President/Programmer, CD Baby), Jim Urie (President, Universal Music & Video Distribution), Don VanCleave (President, Coalition of Independent Music Stores)
• How to Podcast and Music Blog
  • Kyle Gustafson (Information Leafblower Blog), Mike Holden (Musician; Arlingtonmusicscene.com), Eric Olsen (Publisher/Editor, Blogcritics.com), Glenn Peoples (Publisher/Editor, Coolfer.com)
• Reclaiming the Media
  • Lauren Coletta (Director of Campaigns, Common Cause), Russ Newman (Campaign Director, Free Press), Anthony Riddle (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media), Hannah Sassaman (Organizer, Prometheus Radio Project)
• The Ethics of Innovation
  • Moderator: Jim Burger (Member, Dow Lohnes & Albertson)
  • Jonathan Band (Attorney, Jonathan Band PLLC), Chris Castle (General Counsel, Snocap), Marty Lafferty (CEO, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA))
• Our AAIM is True
  • Don Rose (Acting President, American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)), Lesley Bleakley (CEO, The Beggars Group), Glenn Morrow (Owner, Bar-None Records), Molly Neuman (Co-owner, Lookout! Records; Manager, Indivision Management)
• Remix, Reuse, Repercussions: Transformative Use
  • Whitney Broussard (Partner, Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz), Lawrence Ferrara (Professor and Chair, NYU Music and Performing Arts), Wayne Marshall (UW-Madison; Harvard Extension School; Mashit Records), Kembrew McLeod (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa)
• Music, Indecency and Censorship
  • Moderator: Michael Carroll (Associate Professor of Law, Villanova Law School)
  • John Crigler (Attorney, Garvey Schubert Barer), Ken Freedman (Station Manager, WFMU), Erik Huey (Partner, Venable LLC), Kathryn Montgomery (Professor, School of Communication, American University)
• Recommendation Engines and the 5 Cent Solution: How to Crash the Pricing, Re/Monetize the Music Business, Radically Expand the Catalog and Finally Get Artists Paid the Big Bucks
  • Moderator: John Nichols (Writer, The Nation)
  • Robert Kaye (Executive Director, MetaBrainz Foundation), Daniel Levitin (Bell Chair in Psychology of Information Science, McGill University), Mike McGuire (Research Director, Media, Gartner Inc.), Sandy Pearlman (Visiting Scholar McGill University; Producer, Blue Oyster Cult, the Clash; Founder, EMusic), Derek Slater (Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University)
• Radio, Radio: A Discussion on Payola
  • Moderator: Neda Ulaby (Reporter, NPR)
  • Jared Ball (Educator/Journalist, FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show), Thomas Hazlett (Professor of Law and Economics, George Mason University), Jeff McClusky (President/CEO, Jeff McClusky & Associates), Don Rose (Acting President, A2IM), Andy Schwartzman (President/CEO, Media Access Project), Jacob Slichter (Author; Drummer, Semisonic)
• The “Unheard” Music
  • Elliott Adams (Founder/Editor, DJ DIY), Heather Hitchens (President, Meet the Composer), Suzan Jenkins (President, Jazz Alliance International (IAJE)), Matthew Shipp (ASCAP artist, avant-garde jazz piano player), D.A. Sonneborn Ph.D. (Assistant Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Brian Austin Whitney (Founder, Just Plain Folks), Billy Zero (Program Director, “Unsigned”, XM Satellite Radio)

Sponsors: The Entertainment and Sports Law Committee of the Maryland Bar Association, Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL), Microsoft, ASCAP, AFM, Recording Artists Coalition, BMI, CD Baby