Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 Wednesday, October 25 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: Rightsholder Options: Evaluating Rights & Licensing in an Exploding Cross Platform Distribution Universe What’s the real future of entertainment, user generated media or traditional TV comedies or sitcoms? What, in greater number of hours per week, will capture the consumer’s interest and committed time, traditional entertainment or user generated media? These are questions that entertainment, media and advertising executives are very much asking themselves. In the past year, the MySpace web experience has revolutionized the world of entertainment, information and communications. The world of social communities, once thought to be a thing of the past has exploded and is once again on the front pages of our newspapers and magazines. There are web pages and web experiences for every human nuance and niche. Every family communicates through photo sharing and movie sharing websites. The blogging and social networking worlds have become the new "major media networks." Is it a fad or is it the future of our collective lives? In this session we will explore user generated media as a phenomenon, as a business and as a communications and entertainment medium. Chris Carvalho, Business Development, Lucasfilm David Ring, Senior V.P. Business Affairs & Business Development, Universal Music Group, eLabs Marc Morgenstern, Vice President, Rights Holder Relations & Music, Navio Warner Bros., speaker to be announced Ron Milkes, General Counsel, Control Room David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Chris Carvalho heads up Business Development for Lucasfilm, working with all of Lucasfilm's divisions and the Marketing and Licensing departments identifying both outside and internally developed technology opportunities, developing new business leveraging the Lucasfilm intellectual property, crafting and refining strategic plans, and on more tactical, near term issues. He leads the company's business analysis of new technology and digital media - wireless, internet, digital cinema, video on demand, effects and animation software, among others. Chris has created all the business partnerships associated with Lucas Online. For the latter, Chris has been the driving force behind creating new features that deliver additional content and revenue, including the first movie property ever to have an internet subscription service (Hyperspace). Prior to coming to Lucasfilm, Chris spent seven years as a management consultant, with Deloitte & Touche, consulting to executives in a range of companies, from startups to the Fortune 500. Chris has served as a speaker at numerous events including the Stanford Graduate School of Business Future of Content Conference. David Ring serves as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & Business Development, Universal Music Group, eLabs. David is the Head of Business & Legal Affairs for the division and a Senior Vice President in the Business Development group. Universal eLabs is responsible for overseeing the company’s electronic commerce initiatives, Internet exploitation, and new technology business opportunities worldwide. Universal eLabs’ business development and business affairs’ staff supports all of UMG’s e-business initiatives, including digital download, subscription, webcasting, interactive radio and pay-per-play through all digital channels of purchase such as kiosks, computers, TV set top boxes, and portable devices including mobile phones. eLabs works closely with and supports all UMG’s record labels, Universal Music Mobile and other UMG businesses to enhance opportunities for music driven by new technologies, while protecting the value of recorded music. Previously, Mr. Ring served as Vice President, Business Affairs & Business Development, eLabs, where he served as both a business development executive and the Head of Business & Legal Affairs. Prior to that, he was Head of Business & Legal Affairs for UMG’s global e-commerce and Advanced Technology (eCAT) division. Prior to that post Mr. Ring was Director of Business and Legal Affairs for UMG, where he was responsible for negotiating and drafting agreements in the areas of recording, labels, soundtracks, distribution, interactive media and new technologies. Before joining UMG in March of 1996, Mr. Ring was in private practice representing recording artists, labels, songwriters, and producers, as well as film and television writers. Prior to that, he served as an associate at the Los Angeles law firms of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Riley and Rosenberg, Nagler & Phillips, where he handled intellectual property and business litigation with an emphasis on music and other entertainment-related issues. Mr. Ring holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of California, Berkeley. Marc Morgenstern is Navio's Vice President, Rights Holder Relations & Music. With over 25 years of experience in content rights, promotion, production, licensing and delivery, Marc drives Navio’s initiatives in the music industry. Marc’s past accomplishments include President of Music at Rightspring, EVP at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) - the world’s largest performing rights organization, and VP and GM of Loudeye’s Content Protection and Promotion. Marc also led anti-piracy pioneer Overpeer from start-up to double-digit growth. His CEO responsibilities included customer acquisition in the music, game, video and film industries. While at CBS, he won three Emmy Awards for the company in his role as Executive Producer and Assistant News Director. Ron Milkes is Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and General Counsel of Control Room. Mr. Milkes is responsible for all business affairs and legal matters relating to the company’s businesses. These areas range from the acquisition and domestic and international licensing and distribution of content, corporate and mergers and acquisitions, and establishing joint ventures, to employment and stock option agreements. Prior joining Network LIVE, Mr. Milkes served as Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel of The Firm, the largest entertainment and brand management company in the industry. While at The Firm, Ron was responsible for all business affairs and legal matters relating to The Firm and its various operating divisions. Prior to joining The Firm, Ron was an attorney in the corporate group at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, focusing on business transactions for entertainment companies. David E. Leibowitz is Managing Partner of CH POTOMAC, a strategic services firm working with companies at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology. Mr. Leibowitz brings almost thirty years of experience in business, law and policy issues facing the entertainment, new media, consumer electronics and information technology industries. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves as a senior advisor to Gotuit Media, Motorola, National Datacast, Gibson Guitar, Peppercoin, myMPO, and Demand ID Systems. Mr. Leibowitz also has worked with other clients, including BMI, 13 Colonies Software (since purchased by a large enterprise software company), CD Intelligence, and Neurok Optics. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leibowitz Co-Founded VERANCE and served as it Chairman. VERANCE offers innovative technology solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection and content management. Before that, Mr. Leibowitz was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responsible for business and legal issues facing the industry with particular emphasis on how to position the industry to utilize new physical and electronic format systems. During this period, Mr. Leibowitz chaired the worldwide recording industry’s International Steering Committee on DVD Audio, the RIAA New Technology and Multimedia Committee and the RIAA Legal Committee. Prior to his work at the RIAA, Mr. Leibowitz was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding representing a number of Fortune 100 media and entertainment companies. Mr. Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Office.