Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Georgetown University (October 4-6, 2009)

Themes: technology for distribution, promotion and networking, artist revenue, current policy landscape, copyright debates, new avenues for revenue, debates on sampling, resilient music ecosystem, intellectual property and privacy rights, public radio, entertainment law, a future for music, music journalism, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, metadata in compensation, storage and monetization, Choruss, artists for social change, state and local policy

Speakers, Panels:

• Keynotes: Senator Al Franken (in conversation with Mike Mills from R.E.M.), FCC Chair Julius Genachowski
• Music 2.0: How Musicians Can Use Technologies to Promote and Distribute Their Work
  • Kristin Thomson (Education Director, Future of Music Coalition), Jed Carlson (Co-founder/COO, ReverbNation
• Super Social: Promotion and Networking Success Stories
  • Ariel Hyatt (Founder and Owner, Ariel Cyber PR), Charlie McEnerney (Host + Producer, Well-Rounded Radio; Instigator, Musicians for Music 2.0)
• Digital Ducats: Getting Paid in the Networked Age (Co-presented by Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts)
  • Yvonne Harris Burnley (Attorney, Seventh House Music Publishing Ltd.), Paul Rapp (Owner, The Law Offices of Paul C. Rapp), Marcy Rayer Wagman (Associate Professor, Drexel University; CEO and Founder, MAD Dragon UNLTD)
• DC101: A Musician’s Guide to the Policy Landscape
  • Michael Bracy (Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition), Helen Burner (Producer, Songwriter, and Grammy-nominated artist, Phil’erzy Production), Candance Clement (Campaign Coordinator, Free Press), DeAnne Cuellar (Project Director, Texas Media Empowerment Project)
• Screening of Copyright Criminals, a documentary produced by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod
  • Co-presented by ITVS’s Community Cinema program and The Georgetown College Film and Media Studies Initiative
  • Q&A session: Kembrew McLeod (Filmmaker) and Tony Berman (Attorney)
• Welcome from FMC
  • Anna Celenza (Associate Professor of Music and Department Chair, Department of Performing Arts, georgetown University), Jean Cook (Interim Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition), Michael Bracy (Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition)
• The New DIY: Creative Control in an Accelerated World 
  • Moderator: Greg Kot (Music Critic, Chicago Tribune; Host, Sound Opinions, NPR)
  • Bertis Downs (Advisor, R.E.M.), Mac McCaughan (Co-founder, Merge Records; Musician, Portastatic, Superchunk), Erin McKeown (Musician), Ian Rogers (CEO, Topspin), Emily White (Partner, Whitesmith Entertainment), 
• Scratch That: The Sample License Clearance Process and Artist Compensation
  • Moderator: Peter Jaszi (Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual property Clinic, American University)
  • Tony Berman (Founder, Berman Entertainment and Technology Law), Hope Carr (Attorney), Peter DiCola (Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University), Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor, University of Iowa), Hank Shocklee (President, Shocklee Entertainment), 
• Shattering the Crystal Ball: Peering Beyond the Digital Revolution
  • Moderator: Andrew Noyes (Journalist; Contributor, National Journal)
  • Mitch Bainwol (Chairman and CEO, RIAA), David Carson (General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office), Peter JEnner (Sincere Management; President Emeritus, IMMF), Roberta R. Katz (Special Advisor, Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division), Tim Quirk (Vice President of Music Programming, Rhapsody), Johanna Shelton (Senior Policy Counsel & Legislative Strategist, Google Inc.)
• Up in your Bits: Intellectual Property, Privacy and Network Rights
  • Moderator: Brian Zisk (Co-Founder, Collecta; Founder & Executive Producer, SanFran MusicTech Summit and Future of Money Summit)
  • Harold Feld (Legal Director, Public Knowledge), Dan Klein (Media Accounts Director, Detica Group), Michael Petricone (Senior VP, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association), Hal Ponder (Director of Government Relations, American Federation of Musicians), Patrick Ross (Executive Director, Copyright Alliance; Chairman, Copyright Alliance Education Foundation)
• NPR Music: Making Music Matter On-Air and Online 
  • Moderator: Anna Celenza (Associate Professor of Music and Department Chair, Department of Performing Arts, Georgetown University)
  • Bob Boilen (Host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered), John Davis (Musician and Radio Host, WOXY), Anya Grundmann (Executive Producer of NPR Music)
• Entertainment Law Ethics
  • Ken Abdo (Vice President and co-chair of Entertainment Law Department, Lommen Abdo Law Firm), John Strohm (Associate Attorney, Johnston Barton)
• Ideas, not Ideology: Visions of a Fitter Future for Music 
  • Rep, Mike Doyle (D-PA), Nicole Atkins: Importance of Low Power FM to local communities
  • Daniel Ek (Founder and CEO, Spotify): Overview of Spotify and its European takeover and American launch
  • Seth Hurwitz (Chairman, IMP): Changing dynamics in the live music world and its subsequent effects
  • Jordan Hirsch (Executive Director, Sweet Home New Orleans), Craig Klein (Bonerama), Neda Ulaby (NPR): American cultural ambassadors and Sweet Home New Orleans
  • Brian Message (Partner, Courtyard Management), Eliot Van Buskirk (WIRED music technology scribe): Musician empowerment in the digital age 
  • Mike Relm (Musician): The next evolution of collage-based audio/video creation and the role of technology
• Critical Condition: The Future of Music Journalism
  • Moderators: Fiona Morgan (Journalist, the Independent), Casey Rae-Hunter (Communications Director, Future of Music Coalition)
  • Maura Johnston (Editor, Idolator), Greg Kot (Music Critic, Chicago Tribune; Host, Sound Opinions, NPR), David Malitz (Staff Writer, Washington Post), Howard Mandel (President, Jazz Journalists Association), Tom Moon (Music Critic, NPRl Author, 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die), Scott Plagenhoef (Editor-in-Chief, Pitchfork), Mike Riggs (City Lights Editor, Washington City Paper), Todd C. Roberts (Co-founder, The Daily Swarm; Artist Manager/Consultant, Truant Media), Raymond Leon Roker (Co-founder, URB/URB.com; President, NativeSon Media, Inc.), Molly Sheridan (Managing Editor, NewMusicBox.org, Director, CounterstreamRadio.org), Eliot Van Buskirk (Staff Writer, Wired.com)
• Post-Millennium Analysis: The DMCA in the 21st Century
  • Moderator: Ann Chaitovitz (Owner, Ann Chaitovitz Consulting)
  • John Crigler (Owner, Garvey Shubert Barer), Matt Heckman (Associate, Greenberg Traurig LLP), David Oxenford (Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
• What Borders? Music Licensing, Cultural Preservation and Artist Compensation in an Increasingly International Marketplace
  • Moderator: David Touve (Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University)
  • David Basskin (President, CMRRA), Steve Savoca (Director, Digital, Domino Recording Co.), Willem Wanrooij (Senior Policy Advisor/Public Affairs Manager, Buma/Stemra)
• Tag: Metadata’s Growing Role in Artist Compensation
  • Moderator: Peter Jenner (Sincere Management; President Emeritus, IMMF)
  • Rob Kaye (Founder and Lead Developer, MusicBrainz), Barrie Kessler (COO, SoundExchange), Jim Selby (CEO, Naxos of America), Joe Wallace (Senior Vice President, Music, Mediaguide)
• The Cloud vs. The Paradise of Infinite Storage (Or, When Infinites Collide)
  • Sandy Pearlman (Visiting Professor, McGill University; Producer, Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash), Rick Karr (Journalist, neuUNIT(U.S.)/On the Media)
• Music as a Service: A Q&A with Jim Griffin of Choruss)
  • Jim Griffin (Founder, Choruss), Neil Meikle (Consultant, Detica Group), Peter Jenner (Sincere Management; President Emeritus, IMMF)
• Artists as Agents of Social Change
  • Moderator: Erin Potts (Executive Director, Air Traffic Control)
  • Scott Goodstein (Founder, Revolution Messaging), Wayne Kramer (Musician, MC5)
• Home Is Where the Art Is: State and Local Policy
  • Moderator: DeAnne Cuellar (Project Director, Texas Media Empowerment Project)
  • Bruce Fife (President, ADM Local 99), Brian Franklin (President, Impact Politics), Tim Mikulski (State & Local Gov’t Affairs Coordinator, Americans for the Arts), Paige Connor Totaro (Interim DIrector, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts; Co-founder, Misra Records)
• Closing Town Hall
  • Nicole Atkins (Musician), Vijay Iyer (Musician), Erin McKeown (Musician), Martín Perna (Musician, Antibalas/Ocote Soul Sounds)

Sponsors: Georgetown University – Department of Performing Arts, Google, SoundExchange, American Federation of Musicians, Merge Records, Consumer Electronics Association, Pandora, BandMetrics, Public Knowledge, FreePress, ReverbNation, Web.Illish.Us, LiveStream, Laken, Kramer, Cafiso & Pearson