Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 19-22, 2009 Tuesday, October 20th Special Workshops 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Workshop A: DRM 101 – The Content Rights - Digital Rights Primer: Rights Management – Rights Holder Issues – The Content vs. Technology Collision James M. Burger, Attorney at Law, Dow Lohnes, Moderator Jack Lacy, Senior Vice President, Standards and Community Initiative, Intertrust Alan Bell, former CTO, Paramount Rajan Samtani, Director, Business Development, Digimarc Corporation Jack Lacy is Senior Vice President, Standards and Community Initiatives at Intertrust. He is also Chairman and President of the Coral Consortium, a global standard for DRM interoperability. Mr. Lacy has been at Intertrust since 1999 and has served in several executive roles in research and development and standardization. In addition Mr. Lacy has held leader positions at various standards including MPEG and SDMI. Prior to joining Intertrust, Mr. Lacy spent 18 years as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Bell Labs and AT&T Labs working in a variety of areas related to networking and computer security, including systems for sending voice over IP networks, cryptography, _and secure systems architecture. He is a co-inventor of Cryptolib, a widely distributed cryptographic library, and Policymaker, an AT&T developed approach to specifying and interpreting security policies, credentials, and relationships. Mr. Lacy holds graduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and NYU respectively. Rajan Samtani, Director, Business Development, Digimarc Corporation: Rajan Samtani, Senior Director of Business Development, Digimarc Corporation: Rajan Samtani is responsible for Digimarc's licensing and business development activities in Digital Watermarking applications in the Media & Entertainment market. Prior to Digimarc, Raj was at ContentGuard, Inc. where he was responsible for licensing DRM intellectual property to device manufacturers and service providers. Before that, he led sales and marketing at REAL Software Systems, the leader in rights and royalties solutions. Raj has a BA in Economics from UCLA. He has been a frequent speaker and moderator at several industry events such as Digital Hollywood, Jupiter DRM, Jupiter PlugIn, IMS Research, Building Blocks and Music 2.0 among others. Alan Bell, former CTO, Paramount: Dr. Bell has many years of experience as a senior executive responsible for technology-based business development and the associated strategic, standards and policy issues at both Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. studios. Most recently he was EVP and Chief Technology Officer for Paramount Pictures. In these roles Dr. Bell’s activities encompassed a wide range of activities aimed at leveraging advances in digital technology across a broad range of business areas centered on the preparation, distribution and consumption of digital motion picture content and related derivatives. Dr. Bell now provides management consulting, business development and litigation support services in the field of digital media and the surrounding technologies. His areas of expertise include the development of next generation digital distribution methods and standards, high definition disc formats, digital home entertainment networks, digital fingerprinting and watermarking, stereoscopic display and the technologies and issues associated with digital content rights management. Previous to joining Paramount Pictures, Dr. Bell was Executive Vice President, Technology at Warner Bros. Technical Operations. Dr. Bell is widely recognized for his central role and leadership in the unification of the DVD format, one of the most successful consumer electronics products ever launched. Dr. Bell also led the complex cross-industry negotiations that led to the development of DVD copy protection, without which the major studios would not have released content to DVD. Dr. Bell is one of the pioneers of optical data storage technology with 28 issued US Patents and over 30 scientific papers based on his original research which was conducted at the IBM Almaden Corporate Research Center and the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center. In recognition of his contributions to the DVD format, and to original research in optical storage technology Dr. Bell is an elected Fellow of the both the IEEE and the Optical Society of America. He received his doctoral and bachelor degrees in physics from London University. James M. Burger, Attorney at Law, 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.