Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. 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 10:45 AM - Noon Special DRM & Content Rights Workshop DRM Interoperability Standards or Regulation: French, Danish, Norwegian, etc. Regulation vs. Coral, Digital Living Network Alliance, etc. Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics Jo Oliver, Esq., Senior Legal Adviser, IFPI Devon C. Burke, Principal Consultant/Certified Architect, Telecom Media & Entertainment, Capgemini Gerald Bigle, Member, Bigle Law Firm James Bouras, Special Counsel, Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) Oliver Mills, Senior Director of Business Development, EMEA, Intertrust James M. Burger, Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC; DVDA Board Member, Moderator James Bouras, Special Counsel, Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC): Jim has more than three decades of international experience in the motion picture and consumer electronics industries. Jim currently serves as JVC’s representative on the Content Protection Advisory Council of the DVD Copy Control Association. He has also been involved in licensing JVC’s VHS patents and trademark to duplicators in North America and Europe. Previously, Jim served (1977-1982) as the first Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and supervised efforts to deal with copyright infringement in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, etc. He also served (1983-1986) as MPAA’s Director of Worldwide Home Video. Jim has testified concerning intellectual property matters before courts and legislative bodies in numerous countries. He lives in New York City. Oliver Mills is the Senior Director of Business Development for EMEA at Intertrust. Prior to this he worked at Vidiator, a division of Hutchison Whampoa, where he was responsible for developing cutting edge technologies to encode and stream multimedia to wireless devices, and also at Nextreaming, a mobile embedded software company. Between March 1999 and April 2002, Mills served as Director of Sales for Intertrust. Before joining Intertrust he worked in the Computer Security, Network Management and Anti-Virus marketplace for over fifteen years acting as an agent and consultant for such companies as McAfee Associates, Axent Technologies Inc, Novell, Mergent International, Intrusion Detection Inc, Quarterdeck, Security Dynamics, Network Associates and others. Prior to that Mills worked in the entertainment industry where he promoted and managed various groups for Riva Records, Stiff Records, Phonogram Records and Epic/Sony. Scott Smyers, Chairman, DLNA Board of Directors, Vice President, Network and Systems Architecture Division, Platform Technology Center of America, Sony Electronics: Mr. Smyers serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Digital Living Network Alliance and as President of DLNA Corporation. Aside from his DLNA duties, Mr. Smyers is also Vice President of the Network and Systems Architecture Division of the Platform Technology Center of America at Sony Electronics. Mr. Smyers’ particular area of focus is system architecture, system I/O and interfaces. Through his leadership as chairman of the 1394 Trade Association's AV Working Group over the course of seven years, Mr. Smyers has served a pivotal role in bringing about a suite of standards that define consumer device discovery and control. Mr. Smyers now also serves as the Chairman of the CE Linux Forum Steering Committee, and has in the past served as CTO and member of the Board of Directors of the 1394 Trade Association and on the UPnP Steering Committee. Mr. Smyers holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Cornell University Devon C. Burke, Principal Consultant/Certified Architect, Telecom Media & Entertainment, Capgemini: Devon is a member of the Technology profession within the global Telecom Media and Entertainment (TME) practice of Capgemini, where he has taken a leading role in the research and development of Digital Rights Management and Digital Media Management offerings. He has spent much time working with several global Wireless companies on various aspects of their Digital Media & Digital Rights Management implementations for 2.5 & 3G services, including leading the technical due diligence and DRM selection process for the first European 3G service, the implementation of the world’s first DRM protected 2.5G Music Download service, and the regional implementation of a Global 3G Full Track Music Download service. Devon’s research includes defining the key elements and processes in the DRM & Asset Management value chains, Digital Media standards, and what major forces are shaping the Digital Media market. Devon has authored several Articles, White Papers & Points of View on Digital Rights Management, and presented or facilitated at conferences such as Mediacast, Broadcast Content Management, Mobile Internet and IBC Broadcasting. Devon has also worked with global clients across diverse sectors such as recruitment, automotive, and the public sector, advising on web tier architecture and strategy, and was a contributing editor in a recently published book on electronic business issues. Prior to Capgemini, Devon spent seven years working for a global telecoms provider, developing their e-business strategy & governance. He has also worked in the utilities, food, defence & public sectors. 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.