10:45 AM - Noon
Track I:
Piracy and Digital Rights Management: Legal, Legislative and Social Issues Surrounding DRM Implementation
While there may be no short term fix when it comes to the evolving relationship of the digital technologies and its impact on music, film and information content distribution, what we can perhaps all agree on is that it is becoming a more sophisticated and complex relationship. As broadband grows, with it come not only threats to rights holders, but also potential solutions and new attitudes in public behavior. All the news is not bad. While the adversarial positions in the legal process may not be softening and the legislative proposals continue to weave through the system, there are many factors in the technological space as well as in the marketplace which may come to mitigate or even change the flow of history. In this session, we bring together a group of the primary players in the field, looking to exchange ideas and give us a roadmap for the future.
Phil Lelyveld, Vice President, Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media Group,
Jeff Joseph, Vice President, Communications and Strategic Relationships, CEA Consumer Electronics Association
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO, Gibson Guitar Corp.
Fritz E. Attaway, Executive Vice President and Washington General Counsel, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc
Jamie Perlman, Business Development, SNOCAP, Inc.
Larry Kivett, Senior Manager, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Regulatory Consulting, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Shelly Palmer, Managing Partner, Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC, Moderator
Shelly Palmer, Managing Partner, Advanced Media Ventures Group
LLC, is an award-winning inventor, technologist, composer and television producer. He is the host of Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer, a weekly business news show that can be seen on public television and online. He invented Enhanced Television (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Monday Night Football), the most popular form of interactive television in the United States. Mr. Palmer is 1st Vice President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY. He created and chairs the Advanced Media Technology Emmy Awards which honors excellence in the science and technology of the media business. He is the author of one of the most popular television business news blogs. Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV is coming out at NAB on Elsevier Books/Focal Press this spring.Larry Kivett, Senior Manager, Technology, Media & Telecommunicati
ons Regulatory Consulting, Deloitte & Touche LLP: Larry Kivett is a Senior Manager in Deloitte & Touche’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Regulatory Consulting practice. In this capacity, he focuses on delivering a variety of strategic consulting and compliance related services to TMT companies with a specialization in communications providers. Larry has more than 10 years of financial and consulting experience, substantially all of it in service to leading technology and communications companies. He has extensive experience leading a variety of strategic consulting, compliance assessment and financial audit projects. In addition, he has experience in other industries, including financial services, consumer business and public sector.Fritz Attaway is Executive Vice President and Washington General
Counsel of MPAA. Reporting to President and CEO, Dan Glickman, Attaway provides legal advice and direction for all federal public policy activities of the association. Attaway also participates in the management of worldwide public policy interests for the association and its member companies. The issues of primary concern to MPAA include communications, copyright, and international trade matters impacting MPAA member companies. Attaway joined MPAA in 1976 after serving as Attorney-Advisor in the Cable Television Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission where he was involved in numerous rulemaking proceedings concerning cable television and pay TV. He was promoted to Vice President of Congressional Affairs in 1978, was named Senior Vice President in 1986, and Washington General Counsel was added to his title in 1993. He has held the post of Executive Vice President since 2000. In addition to his position at MPAA, Attaway is an officer of the Motion Picture Association which represents MPAA member companies abroad, and serves on the board of directors of The Copyright Collective of Canada. Attaway is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy of the U.S. State Department. In 1970 Attaway commenced his legal training at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a National Honors Scholarship. He received his J.D. Degree in June of 1973. Attaway is a member of the District of Columbia and Federal Communications Bar Associations and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the State of Idaho, and United States District Court for the District of Idaho. Attaway received his primary and secondary education in Caldwell, Idaho and attended The College of Idaho where he received a B.A., with honors, in 1968. He majored in political science and business administration. Attaway was born on July 12, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan and was raised in Caldwell, Idaho. He resides in Falls Church, Virginia, with his wife, Pembroke. MPAA is an assembly of seven of the world's largest producers and distributors of theatrical films, TV programs, and home video entertainment. They are Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; The Walt Disney Company; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.; NBC Universal; and Warner Bros.Phil Lelyveld is Vice President of Digital Industry Relations for The Walt Disney Company’s New Technology and New Media group. The New Technology and New Media group supports more than 400 business units worldwide. Phil coordinates and participates in Disney's representation at multi-studio and multi-industry forums dealing with the transition from analog to digital; including such initiatives as content protection, next generation DVD, digital cinema, enhanced TV, Internet, and HDTV. He also works within Disney to make sure that all of the effected business units are aware of relevant developments, and provides support to individual business units on specific new technology projects. Phil is currently leading the effort to establish company-wide content security guidelines for digital content distribution deals. He is also actively engaged in efforts to develop forward-looking content creation and distribution options that enable "sustainable business models in a leaky environment." Phil holds an MBA from UCLA , an MS in Applied Geophysics from Stanford, and a BS in Civil Engineering (with a Music minor) from Tufts. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, serves on the Technology Advisory Committee of the USC Film School's Entertainment Technology Center, and is on the Board of Directors of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., grew up in
Rochester, NY. With a passion for music and superior academic skills, he enrolled at the General Motors Institute in Flint, MI, a five year co-op engineering college. Sponsored by GM's Delco division, he gained experience in a variety of different jobs at Delco's 6,000-employee electronic components plant in Rochester. Putting his musical skills to work, he worked his way through school playing guitar - a Gibson, of course - in various rock bands playing for parties and weddings. After graduating with honors, he worked at Delco Products for two years as product manager while studying for an MBA in night school at the University of Rochester. He completed his MBA at Harvard University on a General Motors Fellowship. Juszkiewicz then joined the New York firm of Neiderhoffer, Cross and Zeckhauser, Inc., a pioneer in the area of middle-market deals, where he rose to the position of executive vice president of mergers and acquisitions. He left the firm in 1981 and, with two former Harvard classmates (David Berryman and Gary Zebrowski), acquired Phi Technologies of Oklahoma City. Within one month he turned the struggling technology firm into a highly profitable company. In 1986, Juszkiewicz and his partners acquired the faltering Gibson guitar operation from the Norlin corporation. Juszkiewicz's aggressive management style again effected an immediate turnaround, and Gibson became profitable within a month's time. With creative and innovative marketing tactics he concentrated on the consumer rather than the retailer - a reflection of his personal experience as a guitar player. Refocusing the company on achieving the highest possible standards of quality and customer service, he drove Gibson from the brink of closing to a company that has regained worldwide respect with annual average growth of 20 percent over the last decade. Juszkiewicz began fulfilling his vision of Gibson as a full-line, global musical instrument company by acquiring other instrument companies, establishing a Gibson-owned European distribution center with joint-venture distributors, and acquiring manufacturing facilities in China. He dedicated a standalone division to R&D, resulting in the 2003 introduction of the world’s first digital guitar, which represents the biggest advance in guitar technology since the invention of the electric guitar over 70 years ago. In 2004 he took Gibson into the consumer electronics market with the award winning Wurlitzer digital jukebox, the most comprehensive home music system ever made. Today, the Gibson family of brands includes Epiphone fretted instruments and amplifiers, Dobro® resonator guitars, Flatiron mandolins, Slingerland drums, Steinberger basses, Tobias basses, Kramer guitars, Maestro effects, and Baldwin, Hamilton and Wurlitzer pianos. Henry Juszkiewicz resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Catherine and three children.Jamie Perlman leads SNOCAP's business development efforts with retailers. SNOCAP is the first end-to-end provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for the digital media marketplace. SNOCAP's digital content registry and clearinghouse enables content owners to sell their entire catalogs through SNOCAP-enabled retailers, including peer-to-peer networks. Jamie is responsible for identifying and establishing retail partnership opportunities with existing businesses and those that are exploring entry into this new space. Jamie brings with him over fifteen years experience in the music industry - as a musician, producer, and general manager of an independent record label, Satelitemusica Records. He resides in San Francisco and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and a BA in Art History and Spanish from Colby College in Maine.
Jeff Joseph is vice president of communications and strategic relatio
nships for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) where he manages the communications department and serves as a primary spokesperson for CEA, the International CES, public policy issues and member products. Joseph also is responsible for developing and overseeing implementation of media outreach and public affairs strategies. Joseph serves as a media spokesperson and public speaker on consumer electronics products and trends. He is frequently cited in publications such as USA Today, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, This Week In Consumer Electronics, TWICE and the San Jose Mercury News as well as in the Associated Press and Bloomberg news stories. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox News Channel and local television stations across the nation discussing issues impacting the consumer electronics industry. He also has appeared on many industry panels and was recently named one of the Top 40 Under 40 In the Consumer Electronics Industry by Dealerscope magazine. Prior to joining CEA, Joseph spent 11 years at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide/Washington where he managed and designed comprehensive, multi-disciplinary communications and media outreach campaigns. As a senior vice president and senior member of Ogilvy's public affairs division, he led campaigns surrounding some of the most hotly debated issues in recent years, including federal and state tax policy, natural resources management, public education and managed trade. He began his career in communications at the World Resources Institute, a non-profit policy research center in Washington, DC, where he worked in media relations and legislative affairs. Joseph also has been involved in several political campaigns and served as a media consultant and speechwriter for Washington, DC Mayor, Sharon Pratt Kelly. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Lisa and their two daughters, Jordan and Julia. He also enjoys playing guitar, listening to music, viewing and participating in sports, debating politics, scuba diving, cooking, traveling and rooting for the Princeton University Tigers and Georgetown University Hoyas men’s basketball teams.