Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica Wednesday, June 13th 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. Iain Scholnick, President & CEO, Imagespan Kraig L. Marini Baker, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Jay Samit, Strategic Advisor, Navio Sid Blum, Partner, KPMG Russ Chesley, Director, Cinea Sales and Market Development, Cinea, Inc. Jim Cicconi, SVP of External & Legislative Affairs, AT&T David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator 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. Russ Chesley, Director, Cinea Sales and Market Development, Cinea, Inc.: As Director, Cinea Sales and Market Development, Chesley leads Cinea’s studio relations, sales and business development activities on the west coast. He concentrates primarily upon Hollywood and the worldwide motion picture and TV industries. Chesley has been involved with virtually every aspect of the entertainment and media business over the last 25 years. He has worked in creative development, marketing, distribution, production and post production for motion pictures, television, digital media, advertising, corporate communications and out-of-home entertainment as a senior corporate executive, a producer and a consultant. Previously, Chesley worked for advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach, where he planned and executed multi-million dollar ad campaigns for CBS Entertainment and Universal Pictures. In stints at Lorimar Pictures, MCEG/Blake Edwards Entertainment and Apollo Pictures, Chesley supervised numerous television programs and feature films, including the Disney release "Can't Buy Me Love," before becoming an independent producer, with deals at MGM and Disney. He later served as president and CEO of Showscan Entertainment and head of the Huntington Group, an entertainment and management consulting firm. Chesley graduated from the University of Southern California and completed the sequential program in Motion Picture and Television Arts and Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles. 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. James W. Cicconi is Senior Executive Vice President – External & Legislative Affairs at AT&T, Inc., responsible for the public policy organization, and is chair of the AT&T Foundation. He has served in this capacity since November 2005, following the close of the merger between SBC Communications and AT&T Corp. As General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Law and Government Affairs at AT&T Corp., he managed one of the largest corporate legal and regulatory organizations in the country. Mr. Cicconi joined AT&T in 1998 after nine years as a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., where he specialized in administrative and regulatory law, as well as federal legislation. His clients included Mobil, Pfizer, The Bank of New York, and AT&T. He was involved in the public sale of Conrail, the restructuring of Executive Life Insurance, the acquisitions of Vought Aircraft and of Square D, and the restructuring of Lloyd’s of London. He served for two years in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush and as the Senior Issues Advisor to President Bush’s 1988 and 1992 election campaigns. He has coordinated the drafting of the party platform, assisted in debate preparation for the last three GOP presidential nominees, and served on the transition staffs of President-elect G. H. W. Bush and Secretary of State-designate James A. Baker III. Mr. Cicconi served previously as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Special Assistant to Chief of Staff James A. Baker III, with responsibility for policy matters ranging from judicial selections to preparation for Cabinet meetings. Prior to that, he worked as Administrative Assistant to the Governor of Texas and as General Counsel to the Texas Secretary of State. Mr. Cicconi has served as a presidential appointee to the Administrative Conference of the United States; has been a consultant to the U.S. State Department on international organization matters; served as a member of the U.S. Reform Observation Panel for UNESCO and as a U.S. delegate to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Mr. Cicconi currently serves as a director of El Paso Electric Company and the American Council on Germany; is Secretary - USTelecom Board of Directors, a member of the University of Texas at Austin Development Board, the LBJ School advisory council, and a trustee of The Brookings Institution. He is also vice president of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; a member of the NXTcomm Board of Directors; and is Chairman of the Finance Committee for the commissioning of PCU GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77). He has also served as a presidential appointee to the Review Advisory Committee for UNESCO and to the Administrative Conference of the United States. Mr. Cicconi received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the State Bar of Texas. He is married and has three daughters. 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.