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Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica
Wednesday, June 13th
12:30 PM 1:45 PM
Special DRM Workshop: Content Rights
Fair Use to Be or Not to Be
Hosted by:
James M. Burger, Attorney at Law, Dow Lohnes
Speakers:
Alec French, Vice President, Government Relations, NBC Universal
Michael Ayers, Senior Attorney, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., president, Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC
Jay Samit, Strategic Advisor, Navio
Jeff Lawrence, Director Content Policy, Intel Corp.
Neil W. Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA
Neil W. Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA: Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. Professor Netanel received his B.A. from Yale University (1976), J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (1980), and J.S.D. from Stanford University (1998). From 1980 to 1981, Netanel was Assistant to the General Counsel of the State of Israels Environmental Protection Service. He then practiced law at Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles (1981-84) and Yigal Arnon & Co. in Tel-Aviv (1985 to 1992). Prior to joining UCLA Law, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. Professor Netanels recent scholarship includes: Copyrights Paradox: Property in Expression/Freedom of Expression (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005); "Copyright and the First Amendment; What Eldred Misses - and Portends," in Copyright and Free Speech: Comparative and International Analyses (J. Griffiths & U. Suthersanen, eds, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005), "Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing," 17 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 1 (2003); The Commodification of Information (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel eds., Kluwer Law International 2002); and "Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein," 54 Stanford Law Review 1 (2001).
Jeff Lawrence, Director Content Policy, Intel Corp.: Jeffrey T. Lawrence has been with Intel for nine years. Jeff is currently Intels Director of Global Content Policy and Architecture, where he leads and oversees a wide array of legislative, regulatory, and market initiatives relating to content policy and protection. Some of the content protection market initiatives that he is responsible for include: Advanced Access Content System (AACS, content protection for next generation optical media), Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP, for compressed data in home networks and device interoperability); High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP, for decompressed data moving to displays); Content Protection for Removable Media/Content Protection for Pre-Recorded Media (CPPM/CPRM, for DVD Audio and secure recording on removable physical media); Content Management Licensing authority (CMLA, Trust model for OMA DRM 2.0, an open industry standard); and DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA, which licenses CSS for DVD Video), where he serves on the Board of Directors. Prior to his current position, Jeff served as Chair of Intels Copyright Practice Group, Lead Attorney for Intels Content Protection Programs, Director of Standards and Industry Consortia, Senior Corporate Patent Licensing Attorney, and Lead Attorney to the Intel Architecture Labs. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff (and his family) spent 2 years with the Japanese law firm Anderson Mori in Tokyo, Japan, where he experienced a colorful array of intellectual property issues with an international flavor, and 4 years with Preston Gates and Ellis in Portland, Oregon, where he focused on business and litigation matters. Jeff graduated Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, from BYU in 1991, and Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Washington in 1987. Before law school, Jeff studied Japanese (and Chinese) in graduate school at the University of Washington. Jeff and his partner, Lora, currently live with four of their five children in Troutdale, Oregon; his oldest son is in Seoul, Korea, taking a short break from college to serve two years as a volunteer representative for his church.
James Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representati on 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.
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