Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 2-5, 2011 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, California Wednesday, May 4th 10:45 AM - Noon - Special Workshop Workshop I: DiRghts-2 Drafting the Next New Media Contract - Outlines and Contours - Content Creators - Guilds - The Entertainment Industry Dan Rozansky, Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Jeffrey R. Glassman, Partner, Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP Michelle Parker, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs - Distribution, Starz Entertainment Mani Alibadi, Google Chris Dominguez, CEO Sodahead James Lively, COO, DIY Media Joleen Winther Hughes, Founder and Principal, HUGHES MEDIA LAW GROUP, Moderator Dan Rozansky, Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP: Daniel Rozansky’s practice is concentrated in the areas of entertainment, defamation, complex business litigation, class actions and issues affecting manufacturing industries. In addition to his diverse litigation experience, Mr. Rozansky also counsels a broad array of clients on developing the best strategies to avoid disputes. For entertainment clients, he reviews television pilots, screenplays and other material in development to assist those clients in identifying potential liabilities. Mr. Rozansky’s areas of expertise include entertainment finance, antitrust, unfair competition, trade secrets, surreptitious tape recording, reality television, profit participation, rights of privacy and publicity, partnership disputes, and First Amendment issues. He represents clients at both the trial and appellate levels in state and federal court on a wide array of issues. Michelle Parker, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs - Distribution, Starz Entertainment: Michelle Parker is Senior Vice President of Business/Legal Affairs, Distribution for Starz Entertainment. Parker acts as the lead attorney for all new media and technology matters for the Starz Entertainment pay television business and Starz Media.  Parker was most recently Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, Distribution, a position which she was promoted to in April 2008. Her role includes business affairs support for programming acquisitions and distribution arrangements for the Starz pay television channels and services, acting as the digital privacy officer for Starz, and leading business affairs support for Starz Digital Media’s activities, including domestic and international digital distribution.  Parker also leads business affairs support for Starz Media’s growing domestic and international television distribution businesses. Parker joined Starz Entertainment in 2005 as executive director, business affairs, programming, and was previously executive director, business & legal affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment, LLC, in Culver City, Calif.  At Sony, Parker was responsible for various new media products and services, and supported Sony’s media software group. Parker graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law, received an MBA from the Graziadio Graduate School of Business and Management, and received her undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.  Joleen Winther Hughes, Founder and Principal, HUGHES MEDIA LAW GROUP: As founder of Hughes Media Law Group in Seattle, Washington, Joleen Winther Hughes has represented a wide range of clients throughout the media/entertainment/technology space including Yamaha, Microsoft, Paramount Digital Entertainment, Amazon, DIY Media, Skyscraper Enterprises, ZeptoLab, Lima Sky, Big Fish Games, Agility Studios, the LXD, RotoHog, Brightcove, 206 Digital Sidebar, Ooyala, Common Craft, Smartbomb Interactive, @Hand Gear, Sanjaya Malakar, Cascade Game Foundry, Rockaroake, Saky Sacks, Frag'd, r2integrated, Smashing Ideas, and Wet Paint. Her world-class team of veteran media attorneys provides unparalleled in-house/general counsel services to their clients, and may just be the only law firm in the country that offers a service level agreement. Previously, Joleen was Senior Counsel at RealNetworks, Inc., where she provided a broad array of business and legal affairs services for the company's global media operations including participating in the company's largest transactions in the consumer services/digital media space (MusicNet, RealArcade). Prior to her legal career, Joleen was an entrepreneur who owned a successful artist management, talent booking, concert production and special event business during the height of the Seattle music explosion representing RKCNDY nightclub, Susan Silver and Kelly Curtis Management (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees) and many music production companies. Her first "real" jobs in the media industry were as the marketing assistant at KING Broadcasting (radio/TV) and as a PR assistant responsible for publicizing films from Disney, Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers in the Seattle market. A long-time small business owner, Joleen also co-owns the Celtic Swell Irish Pub & Restaurant on Alki Beach in Seattle. Chris Dominguez, CEO Sodahead: A veteran of the digital media industry, Chris is currently the CEO of SodaHead, a venture backed, online Q&A and discussion community where over 10 million visitors a month discover, debate and discuss hot issues. Targeted at the 18-24 year old demographic, over 1.8 million registered SodaHeads share their unique views and opinions on breaking news, lifestyle and entertainment topics. SodaHead also has a diverse panel of staff writers that provide original and exclusive content daily. The SodaHead poll widget is featured on ABC News, Good Morning America, and Fox News and receives over 40 million impressions per month. The SodaHead network comprised of sodahead.com and major media distribution partners reaches over 30 million opinion-oriented visitors per month. Major brand advertisers such as Sony and Yoplait have partnered with SodaHead for innovative and engaging digital advertising campaigns. Prior to joining SodaHead Chris was CEO of GetBack Media, and was Senior Vice President of Business Development at MTV Networks Entertainment Group specializing in digital video initiatives (IFILM). Chris was a member of the senior management team at IFILM Corporation that completed the $ 49M acquisition by Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) in October of 2005. Earlier, Chris was co-founder, President of Stockpoint, Inc. an ASP financial technology company from 1995-2001. Chris completed a $ 21M M&A transaction with ScreamingMedia (NASDAQ: SCRM), and subsequently served as Executive Vice President at ScreamingMedia through May 2002. Prior to Stockpoint, he worked in the publishing business and held positions at Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and Research Magazine. Chris was a pioneer in developing online financial content and application functionality for the financial services community, and was at the forefront of the digital video and social media revolutions creating ways to apply business models to web and mobile platforms. Jeffrey R. Glassman, Partner, Ervin Cohen & Jeffup LLP: Jeffrey R. Glassman is a partner in ECJ’s Business & Corporate Department. Jeffrey’s practice serves entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies as well as middle-market companies. In light of the fact that Jeffrey represents a wide range of businesses, his practice includes general business counseling, corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions, and business transactions. As outside general counsel to his clients, he also advises them in intellectual property matters, employment and labor laws, and business litigation. In addition, he counsels many of his clients on legal matters large and small as they pertain to daily business operations. An experienced, aggressive business attorney who focuses on cost-effective resolutions to legal issues, Jeffrey prefers a “partnership approach” when dealing with clients. He is careful to note a client’s long-term objectives and goals, and advises them accordingly, even when dealing with immediate and pressing legal problems. Jeffrey believes in developing close relationships with his clients and he encourages open and on-going communication. As such, he avails himself to his clients 24/7. What triggers Jeffrey’s enthusiasm toward his clients, and the work he does for them, is the appreciation he receives for his efforts and watching his clients’ business ventures grow and flourish. Jeffrey started his career in the corporate law group at Greenberg Traurig in Washington D.C. where he structured and negotiated complex transactions on behalf of start-ups and emerging growth companies. He was then recruited by Fisher Wayland, a firm that has since been acquired by Pillsbury Winthrop, to join their corporate practice where he handled complex multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions for radio and television broadcast companies, cable networks, satellite and telecommunications clients, as well as new media and technology companies. Thereafter, Jeffrey was recruited by a software development company, Firetalk Communications, in San Francisco, CA, to become their In-House General Counsel. As such, Jeffrey structured and negotiated complex licensing and distribution agreements, joint ventures, and strategic alliances; managed the development of the company’s international trademark, patent, copyright and domain name portfolios; supervised the company’s corporate transactions; and handled all of the company’s employment and labor law matters. Jeffrey then joined a business litigation boutique in Los Angeles formerly known as Enenstein, Russell & Saltz, where he helped establish that firm’s corporate and intellectual property practice. While at that firm, Jeffrey served as outside counsel to several multi-million dollar manufacturing companies and assisted in complex civil and business litigation matters involving contract disputes, intellectual property matters, and employment and labor law claims. Eventually, Jeffrey and that firm’s managing partner joined the business law group of Moldo Davidson Fraioli Seror & Sestanovich. Jeffrey practiced at Moldo Davidson until joining Ervin Cohen & Jessup in 2009. Born and raised in Washington D.C., Jeffrey attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated with Distinction in Political Science. While doing his undergraduate work, Jeffrey was selected to participate in a language intensive study abroad program through Hamilton College and, as a result, lived and studied in Madrid, Spain for a year. He went on to receive his Juris Doctorate from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1995 where he was a Dean’s Fellow. During law school, Jeffrey spent a summer in Santiago, Chile while he studied international trade and comparative law and worked at Urrutia & Compania, a Chilean-based law firm where he was responsible for structuring international business transactions. Jeffrey also worked in the Office of Latin American Affairs at the United States Trade Representative during the Clinton Administration where he reviewed and analyzed matters related to the North American Free Trade Agreement and World Intellectual Property Organization. James Lively, COO, DIY Media: Jim Lively is a seasoned professional with over 20 years experience in directing, managing, and executing all aspects of sales and marketing activities in the technology space. Jim has developed high concentrations of capabilities in opportunity identification and qualification, territory management, fiscal and forecast realizations. He joined Wang Laboratories and worked with other large organizations such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Banyan Systems, learning and developing key solution selling approaches to client needs. He worked for Axis Consulting and helped developed a key international recruiting organization that built one of the largest SAP consulting divisions in the US, ultimately acquired by Andersen Consulting. Similarly he joined Data Processing Resources Corporation and helped to grow that organization where it was acquired by Compuware. He founded a very successful IT Consulting firm that managed and worked with key Washington State officials to upgrade a state wide computer system that handles the human resources, fiscal, and student information needs of the state's 280 school districts and 1.4 million students. He became the Chief Operating Officer of EDTEK Inc., a solar concentrator Research and Development company where he procured venture capital investment required to finish commercial development of a patented Concentrator design while reorganizing the corporate structure to become a worldwide manufacturing and distribution Company in addition to ongoing Research and Development. The Company was sold to an International buyer. He worked extensively setting up business plans for wind development project Operation and Maintenance support for GE Energy Systems, Suzalon, Vestas, and Mitsubishi wind turbine products and towers. Joining GreenFoot Technologies in an advisory role as its Chief Operating Officer, he was very active with corporations in the Solar, Wind, Biomass, and Smart Grid communities developing strategic personnel fulfillment solutions for the growing demand of quality engineering and business professionals needed to support this growing worldwide marketplace. As the Chief Operating Officer of the premier digital media company DIY Media, his focus has been in structuring the organization for enhanced diversification into a variety of digital offerings to different market industries and providing the highest quality products and tools possible to DIY's customers.