Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Wednesday, October 31st 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: Rightsholder Options: The Cross Platform Challenge - Film - Music - Broadband - Mobile - TV While "Content is King," it is also under continual attack and strain within the exploding multi-platform universe. As we move further into a world of mobile, broadband, DVD, cable, satellite and telco, information on demand and interactive advertising, keeping track of, evaluating or finally licensing or reaching agreement on how rights are to be assigned and revenue shared is not only challenging, it is a thorny and time consuming problem. In this session, we bring together experts who are intimately involved in the day to day issues addressing the rightsholder dilemma. We live in a world of extremes, from those that represent the disruptive technologies who at the least threaten or confound the rightsholder to the content owner, creator or producer who are trying to come to grips with their options and responsibilities. Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance Iain Scholnick, President & CEO, Imagespan Kraig L. Marini Baker, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Sid Blum, Partner, KPMG Robert Schumann, General Manager, Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator Robert Schumann, General Manager, Cinea: As general manager at Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Rob Schumann leverages more than 15 years of technology security experience to drive Cinea towards its continuing mission of providing world-class anti-piracy solutions for the entertainment industry. Prior to co-founding Cinea in 1999, Schumann was chief architect for the Divx encrypted DVD platform. Beginning in 1994, he spearheaded the development, deployment and operation of this leading-edge consumer system. He also directed planning for international expansion and the development of Divx technology in new markets. Earlier in his career, he was a senior IT executive at Circuit City Stores, Inc. where he spent more than seven years deploying sophisticated secure telecommunication, transaction processing and customer support technologies. Schumann has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Patrick Ross is executive director of the Copyright Alliance, a grass-roots coalition of artists, producers and distributors from across the copyright spectrum. Prior to joining the Copyright Alliance he was a senior fellow with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank in Washington, D.C. Ross focused on intellectual property issues for PFF’s Center for the Study of Digital Property (IPcentral.info), specifically the rights of artists. He was also PFF’s vice president for communications and external affairs. Ross spent a decade as a journalist covering the growth of the Internet. Most of that time was spent writing for Communications Daily and its sister publication Washington Internet Daily, the latter of which he managed. He also was the first Washington bureau chief for CNET News.com. Prior to writing for those publications he spent six years as a self-employed freelance reporter and editor. A nine-time award winner for investigative journalism, Ross has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Republic, Red Herring, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and has been distributed by the Associated Press. In the late 1980s Ross worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. He studied international relations as an undergraduate at Pomona College and as a graduate student at Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College. Sid Blum, Partner, KPMG: Sid Blum is an 18 year veteran in third party contract compliance relationships and is considered a leading authority on royalty compliance engagements. His clients have included some the world's largest entertainment, technology and consumer product companies. Sid helped develop the royalty audit approach for two of the four Big 4 firms. He is a published author on conducting royalty compliance audits, a qualified expert witness, and is a frequent guest speaker. His next article regarding emerging global trends is scheduled to be featured in the June edition of Licensing Magazine. Iain Scholnick, President & CEO, Imagespan: Iain has over 18 years of technical and Internet operations infrastructure experience. Recently with ERUCES a data security company as VP of Business Solutions, focusing on deploying a high volume data encryption and key management platform into the wireless, healthcare, finance, government and media markets. His career highlights include founding Livemind a wireless commerce and technology services company by securing over $12 million in equity funding through institutional investors. Iain was architect of this wireless transaction and billing settlement product platform and scaled the "Greenfield" company infrastructure and engineering operations to 75 employees as CTO and SVP of Operations. Livemind filed for some of the first patents for mobile contextual-content driven commerce. Previous to Livemind, Iain was a member of the ClickAction Company (NASDAQ: CLAC) executive team where he grew and led a large data-on-demand Enterprise Marketing Automation (EMA) web-based platform. Prior to ClickAction he led and managed Enterprise Marketing Automation platforms for the automotive and direct marketing verticals in Canada. Iain graduated from the University of British Columbia, and has a B.A. in Social and Economic Anthropology, and an Assoc. B.A. in Computer Science in Computer Systems and a technical diploma in Digital Media Engineering. Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision: Richard Bullwinkle is well known in the digital networking entertainment industry from his previous roles at Digital Networks North America, Inc. (DNNA), TiVo and Mediabolic. As Vice President of Product Management, Richard was a chief evangelist for Mediabolic, which was acquired by Macrovision in January 2007. He was also previously a senior member of TiVo's product marketing team. Richard helped create and develop the TiVo products and then played an instrumental role in helping create the well-known publicity around the TiVo products and brand. At DNNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of D&M Holdings U.S., Inc. and the parent company of Rio Audio and ReplayTV, Richard was a senior member of Rio Audio's Product Marketing team. He helped create and market some of the most popular MP3 players in the US. At ReplayTV, he was in charge of the user experience, including software and interface design. Richard graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and music. David E. Leibowitz is Managing Partner of CH POTOMAC, a strategic services firm working with companies at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology. Mr. Leibowitz brings almost thirty years of experience in business, law and policy issues facing the entertainment, new media, consumer electronics and information technology industries. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves as a senior advisor to Gotuit Media, Motorola, National Datacast, Gibson Guitar, Peppercoin, myMPO, and Demand ID Systems. Mr. Leibowitz also has worked with other clients, including BMI, 13 Colonies Software (since purchased by a large enterprise software company), CD Intelligence, and Neurok Optics. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leibowitz Co-Founded VERANCE and served as it Chairman. VERANCE offers innovative technology solutions to protect, manage, and monitor audio and audiovisual content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection and content management. Before that, Mr. Leibowitz was 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 representing a number of Fortune 100 media and entertainment companies. Mr. Leibowitz also has served as Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights for the U.S. Copyright Office.