3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session C:
Movies and CDs: Confronting Digital Piracy & Copyright Infringement
The Internet may be the greatest communications medium of our time; yet at the same time it may also pose the greatest threat to the integrity of intellectual property rights. Digital delivery of music and movies over the Internet can be accomplished seemlessly and unobtrusively. If you are an online music retailer selling a customized CD to a paying customer, that’s a great thing. If you’re a college student bulk e-mailing that same CD to about two hundred and fifty of your friends, that is the start of a huge copyright problem. In this session we bring together a group of experts in technology, piracy, and copyright infringement to discuss the extent of the problem and how the entertainment industry is prepared to put solutions in place.
David Ring, Vice President, Business Development & Business Affairs, Universal eLabs, Universal Music Group
Larry Miller, President, Reciprocal Music
Francois Nuttall, founder & CEO, Audiosoft
Charles Jennings, CEO & founder, Supertracks
Paul Greer, Manager, Content Protection Capability stack, Intel Architecture Labs
Richard Conlon, Senior Vice President, BMI
Richard Doherty, CEO, The Envisioneering Group, Moderator
Charles Jennings, CEO, Founder Supertracks: Charles Jennings is an entertaining, incisive speaker with an eclectic, diverse background. He is a successful entrepreneur and author, an internationally noted Internet privacy advocate, a former film and television producer (for Warner Brothers, Paramount, CBS, et alia), and co-founder of a nationally syndicated comic strip. In the digital distribution arena, Jennings is the CEO, president and co-founder of Supertracks, a company devoted to digital distribution of music. He is also co-founder of Preview Systems, the leading Internet infrastructure provider, with a recent successful IPO. He is co-holder of the U.S. patent for digital downloading in a secure container model (the Tycksen-Jennings patent). In the Internet privacy and security arena, Jennings is co-founder of TRUSTe, a non-profit Internet privacy initiative sponsored by Microsoft, America Online, IBM and other leading Internet companies. He is also chairman and co-founder of Geotrust, a developer of Internet tools for trust and privacy. Jennings is the author of six books, including The Hundredth Window, on Internet security and privacy strategies, upcoming from Simon & Schuster/The Free Press.
François-Xavier Nuttall, Founder and CEO, AudioSoft François-Xavier (FX) Nutta
ll has spent his entire career as a digital audio entrepreneur. Immediately after completing his national service -- where he was assigned as the personal audio-visual assistant to French President François Mitterrand -- Mr. Nuttall formed his first company. This first venture, Eurodat, was established in 1988 to exploit the emerging market for Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recording. As public access to the Internet grew in the early 1990s, Mr. Nuttall was increasingly drawn to the possibilities of audio distribution over digital networks. Responding to the opportunities of this revolutionary trend, Mr. Nuttall transformed his enterprise into AudioSoft in 1997 to provide secure distribution and rights reporting for Web-based audio retailers. Under Mr. Nuttall's leadership, AudioSoft has become widely recognized as a global leader in the online management of international music copyrights. The company's distribution products are used by prominent music sites throughout Europe and the Americas to assure accurate payment of artist royalties. As a respected authority on the intersection of new media technology and copyright protection, Mr. Nuttall is a frequent speaker at international music and audio conferences in Europe and North America. Mr. Nuttall holds degrees in Economics and Social Sciences, and has studied High Energy Physics at the University of Geneva. His early exposure to the science of audio recording and reproduction was as a professional sound engineer and a professor of electro-acoustics on the faculty of the Engineering School of Geneva.Paul Greer is a Manager with the Content Protection Capability stack, a key enabling
capability within the Digital Entertainment initiative in the Intel Architecture Labs at Intel, Corporation. This group is responsible for developing a content protection technology and policy framework for protecting digital entertainment content, driving standards in content protection, and driving development of enabling technologies required to broadly enable protected access, delivery, and use of premium digital entertainment. Mr. Greer has been with Intel since 1984. Before this current position, he was the Product Line Manager for chipset security components and security software development kits for business client-service platforms for Intel's Platform Security Division. Before that, Mr. Greer was the Product Marketing Manager for the Intel Answer Express Support Suite, an online help desk service and PC support software targeted for consumer and small business users.Mr. Greer was also the Product Manager responsible for driving the product programs of the initial set of Intel Internet applications including: Intel Internet Phone, Software Update Manager, Connection Advisor, and Streaming Media Player Mr. Greer received B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from California State University, Sacramento. Mr. Greer was awarded a patent for: Still Image Capture Under Computer Control In Response To User-Instructed Trigger. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products. In 1971, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor and sparked a computer revolution that has changed the world. Today, Intel supplies chips, boards, systems, and software to the computing industry, other manufacturers, and PC users worldwide. Information about Intel is available from the company's site on the World Wide Web at http://www.intel.com.David Ring serves as Vice President, Business Development & Business Affairs, Universal eLabs, Universal Music Group (UMG). Universal eLabs, formerly known as the global e-Commerce & Advanced Technology (e-CAT) division of UMG, is responsible for overseeing the company’s electronic commerce initiatives, Internet exploitation, and new technology business opportunities worldwide. Universal eLabs’ business development and business affairs staff support of all of UMG’s e-business initiatives, including digital download, subscription, custom radio and pay-per-play through all digital channels of purchase such as kiosks, computers, TV set top boxes, and portable devices. The Universal eLabs group works closely with and supports the company’s record labels and other businesses to enhance opportunities for music driven by new technologies, while protecting the value of recorded music. Previously, Mr. Ring served as head of Business & Legal Affairs for UMG’s global e-CAT division. Prior to that he was Director of Business and Legal Affairs for UMG, responsible for negotiating and drafting agreements in the areas of recording, labels, soundtracks, distribution and interactive media and new technologies. Before joining UMG in March of 1996, Mr. Ring was in private practice representing recording artists, labels, songwriters, and producers, as well as film and television writers. Prior to that, he served as an Associate at the Los Angeles law firms of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Riley and Rosenberg, Nagler & Phillips, where he handled intellectual property and business litigation with an emphasis on music and other entertainment-related issues. Mr. Ring holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of California, Berkeley.