DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
RIGHTS AND TRANSACTIONS
Conference in Detail
Thursday • September 9, 2004
(Click here to see Day 2)
| 8:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
|
| 8:30 | Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Media |
Christopher S. Ruhland, Esq. Program Co-Chair Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Los Angeles, CA Chris Weinstein, Esq. Program Co-Chair Senior Attorney, Digital Media Division Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA |
| 8:45 | Who Needs to Care About Digital Media and Why? I’m a (fill in the blank: software/ hardware/ business/ e-commerce/ entertainment etc.) Lawyer or Executive Each component of an intangible work has potential value; the legal principles that protect property rights in all forms of content, especially in new technology when clients create, procure, commingle, and distribute creative content to the public at large. |
Hillery L. Nye, Esq. Steiner Norris, PLLC Seattle, WA |
| 9:30 | Digital Media Technology for the Technically-Challenged Codecs, containers, and other digital media components and tools: What are they? How are they licensed? What are the key points that users and content owners need to know? |
Bruce Davis CEO Digimarc Corporation Tualatin, OR Eric A. Prager, Esq. Darby & Darby PC Seattle, WA |
| 10:15 | Break |
|
| 10:30 | Where the Technology is Heading Beyond consumption of digital media on PCs: Building software and devices to enable the digital media dream in a wired (and wireless) world |
Hadi Partovi General Manager MSN Entertainment Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA |
| 11:15 | Digital Media Business Models |
|
| • What will the business models be in digital media? How do they fit in with traditional models; how does the marketplace look? |
Donald E. Karl, Esq. Perkins Coie LLP Santa Monica, CA |
|
| • Challenges in making a profitable digital download business: Digital music services, digital dailies, subscription movie systems, high-definition digital films and beyond |
Steve Tapia, Esq. Director, Worldwide Business Development Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA |
|
| 12:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
|
| 1:30 | The New Music Marketplace |
Bob Ohlweiler Senior Vice President Business Development Musicmatch, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
| 2:00 | The FCC’s Jurisdiction Over Digital Media |
Jonathan A. Friedman, Esq. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Washington, DC |
| 2:45 | Rights in Media—From Copyright to Common Law Regulatory and legislative developments in copyrights, privacy rights, moral rights, union issues |
Dean Marks, Esq. Senior Vice President Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Burbank, CA |
| 3:30 | Break |
|
| 3:45 | Content Protection and DRM Standards bodies, watermarking, 4c, 5c, the broadcast flag, and DRM solutions from Microsoft, Real, Apple, and others: How do these technologies secure content? What are the risks of using (or not using) these technologies? |
Todd Alberstone, Esq. Associate General Counsel RealNetworks, Inc. Seattle, WA James M. Burger, Esq. Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC Washington, DC |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
(Click here to see Day 2)
About the Conference | Registration | Schedule | Conference Agenda | Conference Faculty
LSI Home