10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Session B:
DH2: Digital Rights Management - Business Models, Secure Streaming, Secure Subscriptions & Download, Secure Pay Per View Technology Solutions
Content is what the entertainment and media industry produce, and the viability of the industry’s future rests on its ability to manage its content and control its distribution while at the same time making it available to an ever larger customer base. And the Internet is at the crossroads of content distribution - from business to business transactions, to the unique massive challenge of business to consumer information that the entertainment and media industries produce and distribute every day. In this session, we will try to understand the problems of content management and the needs of the respective sectors of the industry, explore case histories, understanding how some of the larger institutions have faced up to their problems, take a close look at some of the problem solving and management tools at our disposal.
Brad Brunell, Director, Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Group, Microsoft Corp.
Bradford Duea, Vice President Worldwide OEM Sales, Roxio
S. Scott Burnett, Global Marketing Director, IBM Digital Media Group
Michael Miron, co-chairman, Board of Directors & CEO, ContentGuard
Brian Dunn, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Macrovision
David E. Leibowitz, co-Founder, past Chairman, and Director of VERANCE; Managing Partner & Director, CH BOSTON, Moderator
Bradford Duea, Vice President Worldwide OEM Sales, Roxio: Bradford Due
a is the Vice President of Worldwide OEM Sales at Roxio. Prior to this role at Roxio, Duea was the Vice President of Business Development for Roxio where in such role he was instrumental in securing and developing strategic partnerships with, among others, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Intel, Palm, pressplay, a music subscription joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, and Audible.com, the Internet's leading provider of premium, spoken word audio for PC-based listening or mobile playback. In addition, Mr. Duea helped expand Roxio's Digital Media offerings through the acquisition and integration of MGI, which brought the #1 consumer photo and video editing products to Roxio's digital media portfolio. Prior to joining Roxio, Mr. Duea served as the Vice President, Corporate Development and Corporate Secretary for PeopleSupport, Inc., a leading provider of integrated e-customer relationship management solutions. While there, Mr. Duea raised over $50 million in venture financing and closed strategic partnerships with industry leaders, such as Hewlett Packard and Siebel Systems, Inc. Mr. Duea, a member of the State Bar of California, has significant deal experience, much of which he acquired during his tenure as a corporate lawyer with the law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP. While with O'Melveny, Mr. Duea's activities included mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and partnerships for both public and private companies. Mr. Duea holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Society, High Honors, from University of California at Santa Barbara, a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and International Business, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of Southern California, and a Juris Doctor degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of San Diego.S. Scott Burnett, Global Marketing Director, IBM Digital Media Group
: As Global Marketing Director for IBM's Digital Media Group, Scott Burnett is responsible for worldwide marketing strategy/planning and market development for IBM Digital Media solutions. Scott's role is focused on establishing IBM as a leader in the emerging digital media market place estimated by industry analysts to be upwards of $30 billion by 2004. His marketing managment duties include: develop market-driven strategies and business plans, align execution of offerings and programs and facilitate endorsement across IBM. He manages a global marketing team to develop, package and communicate Digital Media solutions to all industries under a program umbrella "Digital Media Factory" - an open-technology framework, within the e-business infrastructure, comprised of new technology, partners and services, to manage, store, protect, and distribute digital media. Before joining Digital Media, Scott served as Director, Business Development for Content Distribution in IBM's Global Media & Entertainment Industry where he was responsible for setting global strategy for media distribution and digital rights managment for IBMMichael Miron is co-chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive
officer (CEO) of ContentGuard, Inc. Miron is responsible for the overall business strategy and execution of ContentGuard’s mission to accelerate Internet content delivery across all content and media types, on a worldwide basis. Miron was previously president of the Internet Business Group at Xerox Corporation, where he was responsible for the development of new Internet-related transaction and service businesses. Miron also held the position of senior vice president of Corporate Business Strategy and Development at Xerox, where he was responsible for long-term corporate strategy, corporate initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and Internet strategy and infrastructure. He also was an officer of the corporation. Miron joined Xerox in 1998 from AirTouch Communications in San Francisco, where he was vice president of Corporate Strategy and Development. Prior to this, he worked in strategy and analysis at Salomon Brothers Inc. in New York from 1990-96. He also worked at McKinsey & Company in New York from 1986-90, and at International Business Machines in Rye Brook, N.Y., from 1981-86. Miron received a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell College of Engineering in 1977 and a Master’s degree in Management from Northwestern University in 1981.David E. Leibowitz is a Co-Founder, past Chairman, and Director of VERANCE
and a Managing Partner and Director of CH BOSTON. Mr. Leibowitz brings twenty-five years of experience in copyright, media, communications, and technology matters, as well as business issues facing the entertainment, new media, consumer electronics and information technology industries. CH BOSTON provides strategic business and financial services firm to companies in the entertainment, media and technology industries. VERANCE offers innovative audio watermarking solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection and content management. Among other things, its audio watermarking technology is the global industry standard for content management for DVD Audio and for the Secure Digital Music Initiative. Mr. Leibowitz previously served as 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. Mr. Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Brian Dunn, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Macrovision: Mr
. Dunn is responsible for Macrovision's new business development, strategic partnership and acquisitions programs. Mr. Dunn has been with Macrovision since January 1995. He was responsible for the market development and management of Macrovision's digital rights management and software security products. During 1989 to 1994, Mr. Dunn served as Vice President, Operations, Corporate Counsel and Chief Financial Officer of Phase 2 Automation, a factory automation company. Mr. Dunn holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the California bar.