Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Wednesday, May 7th 10:45 AM – Noon The Entertainment and Media & Technology Legal Issues Special DRM Workshop: Content Rights "Fair Use to Be or Not to Be" Hosted by: James M. Burger, Attorney at Law, Dow Lohnes Neil W. Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA Michael Ayers, Senior Attorney, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., president, Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC Jay Samit, Strategic Advisor, Navio Nick Ashton-Hart, Principal, Consensus Optimus Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, the Progress and Freedom Foundation Ty Braswell, Creative Digital Strategist, Creative Digital Strategies For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile James Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representationof 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. Thomas Sydnor is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Sydnor served as a copyright advisor in the Office of International Relations at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Before his work with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Sydnor served as Counsel for Intellectual Property and Technology for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. During his time with the Committee, Sydnor helped to secure Senate passage of various pieces of legislation in the 108th Congress, including the Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation (PIRATE) Act, the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act, and the Intellectual Property Protection and Courts Amendments Act. He also helped to negotiate proposed legislation on diversion of patent fees from the USPTO. Prior to his work with the U.S. Senate, Sydnor worked in private practice at two major law firms, specializing in intellectual property law. Sydnor is a graduate of Duke Law School. Ty Braswell, Creative Digital Strategist, Creative Digital Strategies: Over the course of two decades at the forefront of entertainment and technology, digital strategist Ty Braswell has perfected the practice of taking “big ideas” from conception to reality—and generating solid, trackable results. He has held a variety of leadership roles, including VP of Sony Connect, VP New Media at Virgin Records, and Director at Liquid Audio, producer of music documentaries, and artist manager. With a background encompassing television, music, new media and live event production, Ty specializes in executing cross-platform marketing initiatives with buzz-creating, “think-outside-the-box” flair. He currently helms a boutique consulting firm advising clients in interactive advertising, wireless/mobile marketing and digital strategy development for “third screen” projects. He also consults on core product development, content development and P&L strategy for the full spectrum of media platforms. Neil W. Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA: Neil Netanel writes and teaches in the areas of copyright, international intellectual property, and telecommunications. Professor Netanel earned his J.S.D. from Stanford University, J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.A. from Yale University. His book, Copyright’s Paradox, was published by Oxford University Press in March 2008. His book-in-progress, From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print, which he is co-authoring with David Nimmer, will also be published by Oxford University Press. In addition to his academic career, Professor Netanel has practiced law since joining the California Bar in 1982. He began litigating copyright infringement cases with Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles. He then practiced for seven years with the Tel-Aviv firm, Yigal Arnon & Co., where he represented Israel’s first cable television operator, shepherded numerous joint ventures with Israeli high-tech companies, and served on Israel’s Ministry of Justice Copyright Law Revision Committee. Upon returning to the United States and entering full-time law teaching in 1994, Professor Netanel served as Of Counsel, first with Arnold, White & Durkee and, then with Fulbright & Jaworski, advising clients on a wide variety of cutting-edge intellectual property matters, with a particular emphasis on the use and distribution of copyrighted expression in digital networks and media.Professor Netanel serves on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and regularly addresses academic conferences and Bar associations, including the Los Angeles Copyright Society, State of Bar of California Intellectual Property Section, California Copyright Conference, Los Angeles Bar Association Entertainment Section, USC Intellectual Property Institute, and Digital Hollywood. Michael Ayers, Senior Attorney, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., president, Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC: Michael Ayers earned a Bachelors Degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Public Administration, with an emphasis in Information Systems Management, from the University of Southern California. His J.D. is from Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Whittier Law Review. Michael is registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office as a patent attorney, and, after law school, worked as an associate at Fulwider Patton Lee & Utecht in Long Beach, California. While at Fulwider he prosecuted patent applications on inventions ranging from door locks and advertising signs to institutional security systems and Internet-based secure data storage systems. He also worked on litigation matters ranging from International Trade Commission investigations regarding allegations of foreign dumping of bathroom plumbing fixtures to patent infringement lawsuits involving medical devices such as infrared body-temperature measuring devices and medical procedures and tools for heart bypass surgery. Michael joined the legal department of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. in Irvine, California in 1999. His primary client is Toshiba Corporation, a Japanese corporation with headquarters in Tokyo. Michael handles matters related to copy protection and digital media technologies. The copy protection technologies include CPPM, which protects pre-recorded music on new DVD Audio disks, and CSS, which protects pre-recorded movies on DVD Video disks. Among the digital media technologies he works with are, the various DVD formats, including the three main recordable formats (DVD-R/RW/RAM) and SD Card, which is a flash memory storage card the size of a postage stamp with up to multiple-gigabyte capacities for use in cameras, laptops, PDAs, and similar portable devices. He is also the president of DTLA, LLC, a joint venture of leading technology manufacturers (Hitachi, Intel, Matsushita, Sony, and Toshiba), which licenses the DTCP technology for protecting audiovisual content such as movies on high-speed digital home networks. In 2005, Michael assumed the dual roles of Business Group Chair and Manager of AACS LA, LLC, the entity formed by Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros., Microsoft, Intel and IBM, to develop the Advanced Access Content System (“AACS”) copy protection technology for next-generation optical discs such as HD DVD and Blu-ray. Michael currently lives in Pasadena, California.