12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Session II:
Copy Protection Software for CDs, DVDs & Digital Downloads
In part two of our Digital Rights Management track, we will take a look at the technologies which are starting to take hold in the delivery systems of digital contact. The will be a solutions session. The problem of piracy and security exists on two fronts, in the CD and DVD environment as well as the online delivery of the product. While there is no single process which has emerged as the de facto standard, there are a variety of solutions which the film, music and video industry have begun to put in place.
Bill Krepick, President & COO, Macrovision
John Hoy, President/CEO of License Management International, LLC
Christopher Gorog, President & CEO, Roxio
Donald P. Dulchinos, Vice President, Advanced Platforms and Services, CableLabs®
Motorola, speaker to be announced
Sony, Speaker to be announced
Steven J. Pena, Partner and Co-Chair iLawGroup, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Moderator
Christopher Gorog joined Roxio, Inc. in September 2000 as the company's f
irst President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Roxio, Gorog spent twenty-two years in the entertainment industry, most recently at Universal Studios. As President of New Business Development for the company’s Recreation Group, he initiated and led the execution of its strategic plan for global expansion. Gorog also managed the team responsible for new product development, as well as creating the division’s international market entry strategies. His accomplishments at Universal include leading the acquisition of "Port Aventura", Universal’s resort property in Spain, and supervising the development of more than one billion dollars in planned expansion which included Universal’s location-based entertainment "City Walk" developments. Before joining Universal, Gorog served for six years as President and Chief Executive officer of the worldwide motion picture and television production company ITC Entertainment Group. Highlights of his career at ITC include assembling the management buy-out of the company and leading ITC to the number-one position in the production of network television movies and mini-series. Prior to ITC, Gorog served in various capacities at the Walt Disney Company, including Vice President of Business Affairs. In that role, he oversaw deal-making for both the film and television divisions and was significantly involved in the creation of The Disney Channel. Most recently, Gorog participated in the acquisition of Universal’s concert division by House of Blues Entertainment. Gorog is a director of House of Blues, a leading North American concert producer and owner of HOB.com, the largest live music site on the Internet. Gorog received his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Telecommunications from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.STEVEN J. PEÑA is a partner in the Entertainment Department of Loeb & Loeb, L
LP. Mr. Peña practices out of the firm’s Century City office and is a Co-Chair of the firm’s iLawGroup. Loeb & Loeb formed the iLawGroup to establish a group of lawyers well versed in the interrelated industries of entertainment, technology, the Internet and venture capital. His extensive experience encompasses not only legal issues but also regulatory and operational matters. Mr. Peña currently represents a variety of clients engaged in traditional entertainment activities ( e.g., film, television and merchandising) as well as so-called “new media” ventures. His practice is focused on representing clients who create and/or distribute entertainment programs for use and distribution over a variety of media, including traditional means such a television but also using newer technologies such as the Internet. He works with both mature clients such as major motion picture studios as well as individuals and independent production companies. He has particular expertise in planning and structuring co-marketing deals and other strategic alliances. Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb, Mr. Peña was General Counsel of Warner Bros. Online during it’s first three years of operation. At Warner Bros. Online, Mr. Peña was responsible for all legal, business and policy matters pertaining to the development, production and distribution of online content for the Warner Bros. Online website, as well as several highly successful areas featured on America Online. While in charge of operations for the division, he expanded his knowledge and understanding of the “nuts and bolts” of building, launching and operating an Internet Before Warner Bros. Online, Mr. Peña was Vice President of Legal Affairs at Twentieth Century Fox, where he oversaw all legal matters pertaining to the development, production and distribution of theatrical motion pictures, including the engagement of talent, literary property acquisition and exploitation of ancillary rights. Mr. Peña worked on a variety of theatrical motion pictures such as “Speed,” “Nell,” and “Nine Months.” During his seven years at Fox, he was also responsible for music licensing, exhibition rights clearance, theatrical film clip licensing and merchandising activities (including the original “Simpsons” licensing campaign).Donald P. Dulchinos, Vice President, Advanced Platforms and Services, CableLabs®: Donald P. Dulchinos is Vice President, Advanced Platforms and Services, for Cable Television Lab
oratories, Inc. (CableLabs®). Mr. Dulchinos directs and manages the OpenCable project, an initiative of the cable television industry being managed through CableLabs with a goal of attaining advanced, interactive digital set-top boxes manufactured by multiple vendors and which support the range of current and future digital cable product offerings. Mr. Dulchinos oversees the development of the OpenCable hardware specification in cooperation with cable companies and consumer electronics manufacturers, and also coordinates input from the Hollywood production community, the Federal Communications Commission, and national retailers such as Circuit City. He manages an effort to define a software environment for retail set-top and other OpenCable devices, with the goal of supporting a range of interactive television applications and services. He also oversees the creation of an interoperability testing lab for OpenCable and the launch of interoperability testing by a variety of technology companies of television receivers, set-top boxes, personal computers and other products. Mr. Dulchinos is responsible for coordinating the OpenCable™ business and technical advisory teams in their deliberations aimed at designing an industry specification for next generation digital set-top boxes. He manages communications of OpenCable™ goals and objectives to the cable industry vendor community and recruits key technology companies to the effort. He is also leading investigation into the potential for new set-top distribution strategies, working with consumer electronics and retail distribution companies. Mr. Dulchinos manages the Advanced Platforms and Services Department within CableLabs, with a full time staff of seventeen full time technical, business development and software professionals. He also coordinates the involvement in CableLabs development and testing efforts of technology and marketing personnel from over a dozen major consumer electronics companies, a half dozen software companies, and supports a vendor interest group comprising more than 500 companies. Before joining CableLabs®, Mr. Dulchinos spent seven years as director of research with the National Cable Television Association, where he specialized in technology assessment and strategic analysis of other telecommunications and information industries. Prior to that, he was an analyst at National Economic Research Associates in Washington D.C., and before that he was a technical information specialist in the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress. Mr. Dulchinos holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Graduate School of Business and Public Management at the University of Denver, and a B.A. in economics from Union College in Schenectady, NY.JOHN HOY, President/CEO of License Management International, LLC: John
Hoy has 30+ years experience in the Computer and Consumer Electronics fields. He has held technical, sales, marketing and general management positions in both large and small (including startup) companies. Although always based in the US, he has had extensive dealings with companies in Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Hoy founded LMI in 2000 to provide administrative services to companies and legal entities who want to license the use of Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets. Using a 3rd party to provide licensing of technology assures that all licensees are treated on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. In support of these licensing activities, LMI provides a secure facility to generate cryptographic values associated with the technologies. Current clients of LMI include 4C Entity, LLC; Digital Transmission License Administrator, LLC (5C); and DVD Copy Control Association ("DVC CCA"). In addition to Hoy's management of LMI, he is currently serving as President of DVD CCA and as Chairman of DVD CCA's Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC).Bill Krepick, President & COO, Macrovision: Mr. Krepick joined Macrovision in D
ecember 1988. Between 1988 and 1995, he was responsible for Macrovision's core theatrical anticopy business and for developing and executing its multi-tiered pay-per-view copy protection licensing program for semiconductor manufacturers, set-top decoder manufacturers, and system operators. Mr. Krepick was promoted to President/COO in July 1995. Prior to joining Macrovision, Mr. Krepick held several executive marketing management positions over a ten-year period with ROLM Corporation, the leading digital PBX manufacturer. Prior to joining ROLM, Mr. Krepick held product management/sales positions with Coherent, Inc. (medical products) and Exxon (industrial products) and was a staff economist at SRI International. Mr. Krepick received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and his MBA from Stanford University.