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 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Track I: The Entertainment, Media & Technology Legal Issues 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. Douglas Knopper, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, FreeWheel Kraig L. Marini Baker, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Henry Goldberg, Partner, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright Chris Amenita, Senior Vice President, ASCAP Greg Mckesey, Vice President of Operations, Cloakware Corporation Patrick Ross, Executive director, Copyright Alliance Binu Radhakrishnan, Managing Partner, Kris & Kolloth (India) Whit Jackson, Vice President Business Development and Studio Relations, SecureMedia David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac, Moderator For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile Douglas Knopper, Co-Founder/Co-CEO: Doug has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, media and technology. Most recently, he served as CEO of Bitpass, a digital commerce technology provider that was sold in 2006. For six years prior to that , Doug was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ad Management, at DoubleClick. Before that, he managed numerous brands at a variety of advertising agencies including Lowe and Partners, TBWA/Chiat Day, and J. Walter Thompson. He was named as one of "50 Online People to Know" by Media Magazine in 2004. Doug earned his MBA from Georgetown University and holds a BA, with honors, from the University of Michigan. Chris Amenita, Senior Vice President, ASCAP: Christopher Amenita is the Senior Vice President of ASCAP’s Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP. The Enterprises Group focuses on two main areas: The first is the society’s internet activities, which includes ASCAP’s licensing efforts as well as the evaluation of emerging technologies surrounding the digital delivery of music on the internet. The second area centers on investing and partnering in developing technologies and ventures. Chris was responsible for overseeing ASCAP’s creation of Mediaguide, which is the largest Broadcast Monitoring and Data Information company utilizing audio fingerprinting technology. Chris was also involved in the creation of ASCAP's New Media and Technology Department, ASCAP's Web Site, and has directed numerous projects in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. He continues to appear on panels discussing the impact of technology on the Music/Entertainment industry. Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology. Whit Jackson, Vice President Business Development and Studio Relations, SecureMedia: Whit Jackson has 20 years experience in television distribution, communication technologies and services. His role at SecureMedia includes overseeing the development of strategic partnerships, major account management, and serving as SecureMedia’s liaison to the Hollywood studios and major pay TV programmers. Whit joined SecureMedia after ten years at Macrovision Corporation, the leading provider of copy protection and media security technologies, where he held the positions of VP Music Copy Protection, VP Encryption Technologies Group and Director of Video Encryption Systems. Whit holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Northwestern University. 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. Henry Goldberg, Partner and founder, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright; former partner and founder, Goldberg & Spector (1983-1992); former partner, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson (1975-1983); General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President (1972-1975); a 1964 graduate of Columbia Law School; Member and former Chairman, Communications Committee, Section of Science and Technology of the American Bar Association; Member and former Vice-Chairman, Communications Committee, International Bar Association; Member and former Co-Chairman of the Engineering and Technical Practice Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association. Mr. Goldberg advises a wide variety of U.S. and overseas telecommunications and information technology companies on the regulatory issues and implications of technology-based enterprises Greg Mckesey, Vice President of Operations, Cloakware: As the Vice President of Operations at Cloakware, Greg McKesey is responsible for overseeing the Security and DRM Services, Solutions Architecture and Customer care teams. With 21 years of industry experience, his areas of expertise include software engineering, network security, and product management. An effective team-builder, Greg was the director of research and development at NetPCS, where he established best practices, and introduced product-enhancing technologies which improved the company's product scalability and performance and accelerated time to market. Prior to joining Cloakware, Greg was the general manager, Ottawa Operations for SLMSoft.com and CTO of Milkyway Networks Corporation, before its acquisition in 1998 by SLMSoft.com. He has a B.Eng, Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. Binu Radhakrishnan, Managing Partner, Kris & Kolloth: Binu Radhakrishnan is the Managing Partner at Kris & Kolloth, a Law Firm in Bangalore, India. Binu at the firm specializes in two areas of law, Media & Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Law. Kris & Kolloth, represents some of the leading Animation and Entertainment companies in Asia Pacific Region and Binu is involved in handling Intellectual Property , Contracts and Legal Structuring of transactions in relation to Animation and Movie production, merchandising and licensing. Binu also appears in Corporate and IP matters before the High Courts and Supreme Court of India. Kris & Kolloth is an Asia Pacific Legal500 accredited Law Firm with best practices in Information Technology Laws, Technology / Media / Telecom, Technology Transfers, Intellectual Property Rights and Corporate Litigation. 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.