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For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Hollywood Europe in London, ExCeL London, The Docklands November 29 - December 1, 2006 The Agenda - Day Two Thursday, November 30th Content Rights & Government Regulation 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM WIPO Broadcast Treaty: Public Interest, Industry Concerns, Government Regulation - Addressing the Controversy Sarah Deutsch, Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon Communications Jorgen Blomqvist, Director, Copyright Law Division, World Intellectual Property Organization Ann Chaitovitz, Attorney-Advisor, Domestic and International Copyright Law, Office of International Relations, USPTO Andy Prodger, Assistant General Secretary, Equity Tom Rivers, Independent Media and Copyright, Consultant to Association of Commercial Television Ted Shapiro, Deputy Managing Director, VP & General Counsel – Europe, MPA - European Office Nick Ashton-Hart, Adviser/Coordinator for Working Groups of Civil Society, Rightsholders and Industry at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Session Chairman James M. Burger, Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC; DVDA Board Member, Moderator Ann Chaitovitz is an attorney-advisor specializing in domestic and international copyright law, Office of International Relations, at the USPTO. Ann handles bilateral and multilateral copyright and related rights issues in the Indian Subcontinent, Asia Pacific region and North America. She also represents the U.S. in various multilateral fora, such as WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. Ann also participates in the development and implementation of U.S. domestic copyright and related intellectual property laws and policy. Ann joined the USPTO in October 2005 with 15 years of copyright experience representing songwriters, publishers and recording artists. Prior to joining the USPTO, Ann worked as a labor associate at New York law firm Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, then as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), where she practiced copyright law, and finally, as the National Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the labor union representing recording singers, as well as performers and broadcasters in radio and television. At AFTRA, Ann worked on domestic and international copyright issues. She worked to repeal the amendment to the "work made for hire’ definition of the US Copyright Law, to ensure the direct payment of digital performance fees to artists and to change the structure of SoundExchange, so that artists would share control. She also focused on the rights of U.S. performers internationally and negotiated with foreign countries’ collecting societies to ensure that U.S. performers receive their share of royalties. Ann served on the Boards of Directors of the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC) and SoundExchange and participated in the American Assembly on "Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property." She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law and serves on the Future of Music Advisory Board. Mr. Jørgen Blomqvist, a national of Denmark, is Director, Copyright Law Division, of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva. He holds the degrees of Master of Laws and Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. Before joining WIPO in 1992 he was Legal Counsel and Assistant General Manager of KODA, the Danish Performing Rights Society; Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen; and Head of Section in the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. In 1992, he joined WIPO as Senior Legal Officer. His present responsibilities include WIPO’s activities regarding progressive development of international copyright and related rights, promotion and implementation of copyright and related rights treaties administered by WIPO, legal advice to developing countries and copyright legal issues relating to territoriality and private international law. He has published a thesis on Transfer of Copyright Ownership and several articles on various issues relating to copyright and related rights. Sarah Deutsch is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Verizon Communications. Her practice covers legal issues in the area of global Internet policy, including liability, privacy, intellectual property policy, spam, spyware and Internet jurisdiction. She has represented Verizon on a host of domestic and international Internet issues ranging from digital rights management, the RIAA v. Verizon litigation, the Broadcast Flag, the Hague Convention, cybercrime issues, international copyright treaties and laws, ICANN Internet governance and domain name issues. Selected by U.S. Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks to Serve as Private Sector Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization 1996 Conference on the WIPO Copyright Treaties. One of five negotiators for the U.S. telecommunications industry who negotiated service provider provisions that resulted in the passage of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Featured in The Hill publication as one of the top ten copyright lobbyists for 2004. Profiled in IP Worldwide Magazine as one of five of the most influential attorneys and lobbyists in the intellectual property field. Formerly Vice President & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) responsible for large intellectual property practice, including registration and enforcement of patents, trademarks and copyrights worldwide and related policy. Richard Owens, Director Copyright E-Commerce Technology and Management Division, WIPO: Richard Owens is Director of the Copyright E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Owens’ work lies at the intersection of copyright, digital technologies and the internet, involving issues such as emerging online business models, the copyright liability of internet intermediaries, the rights of users and consumers of digital content, digital rights management (DRM) including Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) standards issues, open source software, and copyright collective management. Before joining WIPO, Mr Owens was International Intellecutal Property Rights (IPR) Adviser for British Music Rights (BMR) in London, the lobbying and public affairs voice of UK composers, songwriters and music publishers. While in London he also contributed to UK implementation of the EC Copyright and E-Commerce Directives, and participated in RightsWatch, an EC-funded project aimed at developing self-regulatory notice-and-takedown procedures for the European Union under the E-Commerce Directive. Nick Ashton-Hart, Adviser/Coordinator for Working Groups of Civil Society, Rightsholders and Industry at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Nick Ashton-Hart is a consultant in private practice providing specialised services to non-governmental organisations, civil society representatives, for-profit and non profit industrial representatives in coalition-building, multilateral treaty development and strategies for being successful in dealing with UN agencies and member states. He specialises in helping disparate groups find common ground on difficult issues and then helping take that consensus and effectively represent it to audiences across the spectrum, political, industrial, for-profit and non-profit. He has served as a Director and Managing Director of various companies in various market sectors during his professional career, including as the Executive Director of the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF) the NGO representing the interests of music managers and their clients, the featured artist community, at the global level. In the private sector he has led a successful IT consultancy, providing consulting services for companies in transition, or during reorganisations or periods of rapid growth. He has been engaged at various times as a temporary IT Director or CTO/CIO. He has been a participant in multilateral negotiations in fields as diverse as sustainable unban development (UN HABITAT II Conference, Istanbul, 1996 and preparatory conferences), and Intellectual Property (WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, 2001-Present) for more than 15 years, where he has traditionally helped coalitions of NGOs work together in affecting the multilateral outcomes of these process reflect their views and those of the constituencies they represent. Ashton-Hart's business career began in the music industry managing performers such as James Brown and Heaven 17, which involved the practical application of intellectual property law and the management of people of diverse skill sets and backgrounds, projects with multi-million-dollar budgets and revenues, as well as complex negotiations of long-term recording, publishing, sponsorship, and other contractual arrangements involving millions in revenues over very long time horizons. Ted Shapiro, Deputy Managing Director, Vice President and General Counsel - Europe - Motion Picture Association (Brussels), is responsible for the MPA’s European legal affairs including representing the interests of the MPA’s member companies in Europe and advising them on industry matters related to copyright (in particular new media), audiovisual law (including ‘casting regulation), competition matters, international private law, data protection and international trade law as well as litigation oversight on industry-related matters, such as technological measures and support to the Anti-Piracy department on enforcement matters. Mr. Shapiro also represents the MPA on content protection matters in Europe in industry consortia and standards bodies such as the Digital Video Broadcasting project. He also works with the ancillary rights department on the legal aspects of negotiations and relations with collecting societies such as AGICOA (audiovisual producers’ collecting society). Ted is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and England/Wales. He has a LL.M. from the University of Amsterdam, a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law and B.A. from Connecticut College. James Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, communications and government policy matters. Mr. Burger joined the firm's Media, Information and Technologies group in January, 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Burger was a Senior Director in Apple Computer's Law Department. During the nine years he was at Apple, Mr. Burger had a variety of assignments, including representing Apple's Advanced Technology Group, USA Field Sales organizations, and World-Wide Operations and Manufacturing, as well as General Counsel for Europe and Latin America and responsible for world wide government affairs. In addition, from 1991 until 1996, he was Chair of the Information Technology Industry Council's Proprietary Rights Committee. Mr. Burger has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Mr. Burger has participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music - representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD Content Scrambling System copy protection rules as well as the Secure Digital Music Initiative. In addition, he has been engaged in such matters as the efforts to amend copyright law from leading the negotiations to exclude the computer industry from the Audio Home Recording Act, to avoid passage of the Digital Video Recording Act and to accommodate the protection of intellectual property on the Internet as well as the efforts to change the encryption export rules to protect digital communications. A native of New York City, he received his Bachelors (with Honors), Masters and Law (cum laude) degrees from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal. For seven years, he was an adjunct professor at University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative law.