WASHINGTON — The Future Of Music Coalition and Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture and Technology Program recently announced the Second Annual Policy Summit — taking place on January 7 and 8, 2002, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Nationally-known musicians, lawyers, artists, academics, and policymakers will come together to debate some of the current issues surrounding digital technology and artists’ rights. Last year, more than 500 participated in the event.

We are pleased to announce some additions to our list of panelists, as well as two additional keynote speakers. Joining previously announced speakers, Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI), are California State Senator Kevin Murray and Konrad Hilbers, CEO of Napster.

In addition to the keynote speakers, many of the most respected and engaging minds in the music/tech community will be participating as panelists. Recent additions include Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Tim Bierman (Pearl Jam "Ten Club" Manager), Miles Copeland (Ark 21 Records), Jon Langford (The Mekons), Amy Ray (Indigo Girls/Daemon Records), Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey In The Rock), Toshi Reagon (singer/songwriter) and many more.

A complete list is below and is also available on the Future Of Music site.

The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit, grassroots collaboration between leading independent musicians and experts from the worlds of technology, public policy and intellectual property law. The FMC seeks to educate the media and policymakers about music/technology issues, while also bringing together key stakeholders in an effort to come up with creative solutions to the challenges in this space. The FMC also aims to identify and promote innovative business models that will help independent musicians benefit from new technologies, and work to organize underrepresented musicians from the independent music community to speak out on issues that impact the value of their labor.

The Communication, Culture and Technology Program is a master’s degree program in Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The curriculum fosters the advanced study of contemporary communications, media and information technologies through innovative approaches to theory, research and practice. Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic university in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll.

Georgetown is a major international university that today offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and enrolls 6,418 undergraduate students and 6,009 graduate, law, and medical students. The university employs nearly 1,400 faculty members on its three campuses. For more information about Georgetown University, visit www.georgetown.edu.

Keynote Speakers:

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
CA State Senator Kevin Murray
Konrad Hilbers, CEO, Napster

Panelists:

Chris Amenita — VP New Media and Technology, ASCAP
Colleen Andersen — Business Development Manager, MSN® Music
Dagfinn Bach — Artspages.org
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 — Caestecker Chair in Music and Director of Music Program Director, Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, Georgetown University
Michael Bracy — Director of Government Relations, FMC
Whitney Broussard — Attorney, Selverne Mandelbaum and Mintz
Jim Burger — Attorney, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
Nicholas Butterworth — President and CEO, MTVi
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 — Attorney, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Miles Copeland — Ark21 Records
Mark Cuban — Founder, Broadcast.com
Alan Davidson — Associate Director and Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University
Dave Dederer — Presidents of the United States of America
Pat DiNizio — The Smithereens / XM Radio
Ric Dube — Senior Analyst, Webnoize
Adam Eisgrau — Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology,
Georgetown University
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
Jerry Harrison — Talking Heads / Garageband Records
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
Jon Langford — The Mekons
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
Edward Murphy — President, National Music Publishers Association
Krist Novoselic — Nirvana
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
Bernice Johnson Reagon — Sweet Honey in the Rock
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
Pamela Samuelson — UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems
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 — Microsoft
Jonathan Tasini — National Writer’s Union
Johnny Temple — Girls Against Boys / Akashic Press
Michael Tiemann — CTO, Red Hat
Vivek Tiwary — Star Polish
Jenny Toomey — Executive Director, FMC
Joe Uehlein — Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL-CIO
David Weld — COO, Loudeye
Alison Wenham — Chair, Association of Independent Music
Brian Austin Whitney — Just Plain Folks
Brian Zisk — Technologies Director, FMC

Up to the minute list of panelists, panelist bios, CLE credit info and extensive information is available here.

A full conference agenda is available at http://www.futureofmusic.org/images/2002trifold.pdf

Registration costs $750 for the full event, or $400 for either day and includes access to all panels, breakfast and lunch.

Reporters wishing to cover this event must contact Vickie Jones at Georgetown University’s Office of Communications at (202) 687-0682 in addition to registering online at the below link. Press will need to present valid photo identification on campus.

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