Calling all FMC supporters! We’re less than a ten days away from our second Annual Policy Summit, which is January 7-8, 2002 at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall. Now that panelists are confirmed, volunteers are waiting, and musicians are tuning up, all we need is you!

RECENTLY CONFIRMED PANELISTS:
* Charlie Sanders, NMPA/Harry Fox * Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sweey Honey in the Rock * Jim Guerinot, Rebel Waltz Management (Offspring/No Doubt) * Phil Leigh, Vice President, Raymond James & Associates

These folks round out the already-impressive list of panelists:
- Chris Amenita, VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP
- Colleen Andersen, Business Development Manager, MSN® Music
- Dagfinn Bach, Artspages.org
- John T. Baker IV, President and CEO, Loudeye
- John Perry Barlow, Cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Jon Baumgarten, Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP
- Yochai Benkler, Professor, NYU Law School
- Marilyn Bergman, President, ASCAP
- Tim Bierman, Pearl Jam "Ten Club" manager
- Eric Boehlert, Salon.com
- David Bollier, Co-founder, Public Knowledge
- Jose Bowen, Director of Music Program, Georgetown University
- Whitney Broussard, Attorney, Selverne Mandelbaum and Mintz
- Jim Burger, Attorney, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
- David Carson, General Counsel, US Copyright Office
- Brian Chater, President, CIRPA
- Ann Chaitovitz, Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA
- Ted Cohen, VP of New Media EMI Recorded Music
- Richard Conlon, VP Marketing and Business Development, BMI
- Manus Cooney, VP Corporate and Policy Development, Napster
- Jay Cooper, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
- Miles Copeland, Ark21 Records
- Mark Cuban, Founder, Broadcast.com
- Alan Davidson, Associate Director and Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Pat DiNizio, The Smithereens / XM Radio
- Ric Dube , Fenway Recordings
- Adam Eisgrau, Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University
- Marshall Eubanks, Multicast Technologies
- Dave Farber , Penn Initiative for Markets, Technology and Policy
- Edward Felten, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
- Dave Fagin, The Rosenbergs
- Ron Gertz, President, Music Reports
- Danny Goldberg, President, Artemis Records
- Jim Griffin , CEO, Cherry Lane Digital
- Robin Gross, Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Bill Holland, Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine
- Pam Horovitz, President, NARM
- Peter Jaszi, Professor, American University,Washington College of Law
- Peter Jenner, Chairman, AURA
- Dean Kay, ASCAP
- Rick Karr, Cultural Correspondent, NPR News
- Jon Kertzer, Director, Smithsonian Global Sound
- Bruce Lehman, International Intellectual Property Institute
- Jessica Litman, Professor, Wayne State University
- Ian MacKaye, Dischord Records/Fugazi
- Dave Marsh, Journalist and critic
- John McCutcheon, folkmusic.com / AFM local 1000
- Walter McDonough, General Counsel, FMC
- Krist Novoselic, Nirvana/President, JAMPAC
- Sandy Pearlman, VP Media Development, Moodlogic.com
- Marybeth Peters, Registrar, US Copyright Office
- Jonathan Potter, Executive Director, DIMA
- Ann Powers, Experience Music Project
- Amy Ray, Indigo Girls / Daemon Records
- Toshi Reagon, singer/songwriter
- Rob Reid, Founder, Listen.com
- Brian Robertson, President, Canadian Recording Industry Association
- Debra Rose , Counsel, House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property
- Hilary Rosen, President and CEO, RIAA
- Jay Rosenthal, Recording Artist Coalition
- David Sanjek, BMI Archivist and Author
- Cary Sherman, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA
- Tom Silverman, CEO, Tommy Boy Records
- John Simson, Director of Artist and Label Relations, Sound Exchange
- Derek Sivers, CD Baby
- Ted Tanner Jr., Audio-Video Architecture Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
- Jonathan Tasini, National Writer’s Union
- Johnny Temple, Girls Against Boys / Akashic Press
- Michael Tiemann, CTO, Red Hat
- Vivek Tiwary, Star Polish
- Joe Uehlein, Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL-CIO
- Brian Austin Whitney, Just Plain Folks
- Brian Zisk, Technologies Director, FMC

CHECK OUT THE SCHEDULE of PANELS and SPECIAL EVENTS:
Monday, January 7: http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/summit0102/schedule.cfm
Tuesday, January 8: http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/summit0102/schedule2.cfm

HEAR A PREVIEW:
On Friday, January 4, 1:00 PM ET Jenny Toomey and Michael Bracy will be Live Online at the Washington Post. Go here to submit questions or to tune in:
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/music_toomey010402.htm

ATTENTION LAWYERS • POLICY SUMMIT WORTH 7 CLE CREDITS
This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania and Virginia CLE Boards for 7 hours of substantive law, practice, and procedure CLE credit, with reciprocity for credits granted by many other state bars, including California. Lawyers who are interested in reciprocity should contact their state bars to confirm the applicability.

MONDAY NIGHT CONCERT ANNOUNCED
As with last year, we have invited a number of musicians and bands to play at the conference, so that it’s not all about talk but also about music! Plus, we’ve organized a special concert for Monday night in Gaston Hall with:

• Last Train Home (DC’s own alt-country favorites)
• Lester Chambers (of the legendary Chambers Brothers)
• Danielle Howle (SC’s own fast-talkin’ gal rocker, on Daemon/Kill Rock Stars)

All ages! Tickets: $5 Doors at 8:00 PM
directions: http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/summit0102/directions.cfm

MUSICIAN SCHOLARSHIPS STILL AVAILABLE
As with last year, we have invited a number of musicians to join us at the event, as performers during the conference AND as participants in the debate. Because of some generous contributions from our sponsors, over 100 musicians are able to attend the event on a scholarship status, and there are a handful of spaces left! We would encourage any working musicians who want to engage in the music/tech debate and better understand the issues affecting their livelihood to fill out a scholarship application online at:

http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/summit0102/scholarship.cfm

REGISTER NOW
Registration fee includes access to all panels, breakfast and lunch, and CLE materials for practicing lawyers:

$750 for a two-day pass
-OR-
choose a one-day pass:
$400 for Monday only -or- $400 for Tuesday only

It’s easy! Register online

MEMBER DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
We would like to extend a disounted rate to our most active supporters. We have made special arrangements with WALA, ASCAP, AFIM, CPSR, and NARM to offer their members a special discounted rate. There are also discounts available for FMC newsletter subscribers (that’s you!!) , employees of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and a limited number of very low prices for students. Registration is a bit different, but just as easy. Go to this page and follow the instructions.

PRESS CREDENTIALING:
If you are a member of the media and are interested in press credentials, go here to fill out a form that will go to our media contact, Sonya Kolowrat.

ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
Check out the FMC website for more information about the conference, or to read about last year’s event. If you have other questions, please email us at conference [at] futureofmusic [dot] org.

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you next week.

In mid-December, FMC’s General Counsel Walter McDonough was invited to join the SoundExchange Advisory Board, which he has accepted. We consider this a major victory based on a year-long effort on the behalf of many organizations to urge SoundExchange to include a diversity of voices on its advisory board, escpecially those who will advocate forcefully for the direct payment of digital royalties to musicians, and musicians’ participation in the policy-making process.

We are thrilled that SoundExchange extended this offer to Walter.

Those of you who read last month’s newsletter will remember that FMC supported the direction of the recent deal between the musicians unions, RAC and Sound Exchange that among other things codified the principle that artist should be paid their rightful 45% share of the digital royalties directly. Our critique of the document flagged areas of concern from earlier versions of the document and requested that the final version be posted publicly for collective review.

Read our critique of the agreement here.

In response to this request AFTRA has recently posted the deal on their site (thank you, AFTRA). We invite you all to take a look for yourself and forward any areas of concern or support.

Go to: http://www.aftra.org and scroll down to the SoundExchange section. Click on the "principles of agreement" to see the document.

On December 17, 2001 Jenny was invited by The Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce to participate in a workshop to explore digital content and digital rights management issues in an attempt "to explore a critical question impacting the deployment and adoption of broadband networks, identify potential government or private sector actions, and facilitate continuing dialogue and cooperation." She participated in a roundtable discussion with Preston Padden/ Disney, Elizabeth Frazee/AOL Time Warner, Manus Cooney/Napster, Tim Sheehy/IBM, Mitch Glazier/RIAA, Matt Gerson/Vivendi, Justin Lilley/Bertelsmann, Eric Scheirer/Forrester Research (among others) and answered questions from government moderators. In the meeting she emphasized the difficultly freelance creators like artists and writers have negotiating for fair compensation from the large corporations that dominate the media environment. She also cautioned the Department of Commerce to be sure that artists share in the value of future deals and warned that protective measures enacted to maintain the health of the established music business models may at the same time prevent fair competition and therefore impede the growth of other more lucrative and equitable partnerships for artists.

Future of Music Policy Summit 2002
By Mike Darrah
WinAmp News, December 15, 2001

News Bites: Krist Novoselic, Amy Ray…
by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna
AllStar News, Dec 13, 2001

Future of Music Coalition To Hold Conference
by Ben Johnson
Pitchfork Media, December 2, 2001

When the Perfect Storm Hit Labels
The Universal Group leads a diminished derby, battered by artist and fan woes
By Steve Hochman and Jeff Leeds
LA Times, December 30, 2001

Shows to Build Coffers Against Record Labels
A cadre of popular musicians led by Elton John, the Eagles and the Dixie Chicks is banding together to put on an extraordinary production: five benefit concerts in the Los Angeles area on one night in February. But, instead of raising money for charity, the artists are taking the stage to finance their ongoing battle against the record industry….
By Chuck Philips
LA Times, December 19, 2001

Music industry in the pits!
Record sales are down, no one’s seeing concerts, no one’s advertising on radio and the stars are revolting!
By Eric Boehlert
Salon.com, Dec. 19, 2001

Round 2 of Online Music Battle Begins
Internet: As the big labels roll out online song services, angry artists are preparing cease-and-desist notices.
By Chuck Philips, Jon Healey
LA Times, December 10, 2001

A Potential Hit And a Miss on The Music Front
By Rob Pegoraro
Washington Post, December 7, 2001; Page E01

If you have any feedback, questions, or suggestions please send an email to suggestions [at] futureofmusic [dot] org, and let us know how we’re doing.

Thanks for your support and see you next time.

xo Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
jenny [at] futureofmusic [dot] org