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New Addition to Conference Panel on Section 1201
My rather lengthy review of Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz’s new book, The End of Ownership, resulted in Jason Schultz agreeing to speak on the panel “Circumventing the Future: The Fate of Section 1201” at our Copyright and Technology conference, which is coming up on January 24th at the Kimmel Center at NYU. I had known […]
Conference on Digital Marketplace for Copyrighted Works at PTO
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force will be holding a conference on Friday December 9, Public Meeting on Developing the Digital Marketplace for Copyrighted Works. The event will take place at the Madison Auditorium, Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA. The objective of this event will be to see what role government can play in areas […]
2017 Conference: Panel Change; Earlybird Deadline Approaches
I’m announcing a couple of changes in the Copyright and Technology conference on January 24. When we were setting the agenda for the next conference, the FCC was deep in to deliberations over its “Unlock the Box” proposal to require pay-TV operators to stop requiring consumers to pay for renting their set-top boxes and make their […]
Conference Registration Now Live; Call for Speakers
Online registration for Copyright and Technology 2017 on January 24 is now up and running, with earlybird discounts through November 24. Thanks to our friends at the Copyright Society of the USA! We’re looking for speakers. We have openings on every session at the conference. We are also looking for a moderator for the panel […]
Announcing Copyright and Technology NYC 2017
I’m happy and proud to announce our next conference. It will take place on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. The location is Grand Hall at the Kimmel Center at NYU (same venue as last year, different rooms). The agenda is now posted. Our keynote speakers will be Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, who are professors of […]
Blockchain Solutions for Music Rights Processing
One aspect of the recent hype about blockchain applications for music is the spate of conferences and panels about it. I went to one of these last Wednesday: the Music 4.5 conference at the offices of the ReedSmith law firm in NYC. The event was cleverly organized: the first half was devoted to startups who touted the virtues […]
Pre-Announcing Copyright and Technology 2017 Conference
We’ve decided to get an earlier start on next year’s Copyright and Technology conference — our eighth year. Save the date: Tuesday January 24, 2017. The venue will once again be the Kimmel Center at NYU, and my co-producers once again are the Copyright Society of the USA and Larry Miller of Musonomics and the Steinhardt […]
Panel at NAB Will Consider the New World of Open Set-Top Boxes
I’ll be moderating a breakfast panel during the NAB trade show in Las Vegas in mid-April: The FCC’s Open-STB World: What Does It Mean for Content Security? Back in February, the FCC approved a proposal that will require pay television operators to let users choose their own access devices instead of using the set-top boxes (STBs) […]
Guess Who’s Coming to Copyright and Technology NYC 2016?
There’s only a week to go until Copyright and Technology NYC 2016, next Tuesday January 19. I thought you might like to know that we have people coming from these organizations: ASCAP BMI CBS CCIA Charter Communications Cisco Copyright Alliance Copyright Clearance Center Elsevier Entertainment Software Assn. Facebook Getty Images HBO Imagem NBA (National Basketball Association) […]
Copyright Office Launches Inquiries into DMCA
Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office published Notices of Request and Public Comment for both parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Section 512 (limitations of copyright liability for online service providers) and Section 1201 (prohibition of DRM circumvention). Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel of the Copyright Office, will be discussing both of these — and more […]
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