Future of Music rights - conference

Subject: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:36 PM

This relates to the being "napstered" thread, and I have posted info about the Future of Music organization in previous threads, also.

http://www.futureofmusic.org

This organization is working for fairness in compensating the artists who create the work. There will be a conference January 10th and 11th, at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall. The email newsletter describing the event says, in part,

" Future of Music newsletter #4 (December 20, 2000)

http://www.futureofmusic.org

"No longer will corporate media and big money frame the terms of the discussion as we draw together the strongest voices in the Internet and independent music community to reframe these questions with a clear-eyed focus on the interests of the artists."

We've got an incredibly exciting event planned, The Future of Music Policy Summit Conference -- with the likes of Senator Orin Hatch, Chuck D, Hilary Rosen ofthe RIAA, Michael Robertson of MP3.com, Leonardo Chiariglione of SDMI, Bill Ivey of the NEA, William Kennard of the FCC, John Perry Barlow of the EFF and more than 50 others. Not to mention the 300 musicians we plan to have in the audience! For a full list go to http://www.futureofmusic.org and download the PDF for panelists and times. "

Go to their website for more information. You can sign up for their email newsletter for updates.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 08:08 PM

Thanks, Alice. Nice to know there might be some version of sanity if all goes well.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 11:12 PM

There will be concerts in conjunction with the conference. Anyone in the DC area may want to check out the performances as well as provide input from the musician's point of view.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 03:36 PM

Here is a tentative schedule and a list of some participants, including James Boyle, Pamela Samuelson, David Post, and John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 01 - 10:32 AM

Here is a USA Today article about conference participant Pamela Samuelson.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 01 - 10:28 AM

Here is a paper presented by Pamela Samuelson at a Yale conference on private censorship.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 01 - 10:30 AM

Hmm. No ENglish, and no European Union citizens. DO I spot a spot of bias?

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 01 - 12:27 PM

Perhaps one man's "bias" is another man's "focus". The conference seems to have been called to discuss specific issues of the give-and-take between digital communications media and US law, e.g. "fair use" (not "fair dealing"), and the DMCA. Nevertheless I expect the Future of Music Alliance would be interested in your comments about why you think a global perspective might have been more appropriate, and could have been adopted without sacrificing conference productivity.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 09:41 AM

The conference will be webcast, according to this

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 09:05 AM

So how's it going ? What did that so-called "senator" Hatch say ?

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 06:33 PM

Yes. EU courts are making the running on application of local law to non-local servers and of course the E-COmmerce directive is a major influence.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 07:34 PM

Here is a report at Inside.com on Hatch's speech. It won't be freely available for long, so read it while you can.

I don't consider Hatch a very good friend of the public interest. He is a well-known copyright maximalist; his encouragement of licensing involves no repudiation of the maximalist agenda. It might even be interpreted as a cynical way of giving the plebians bread, circuses, and MP3s in order to keep them quiet and prevent them from becoming sufficiently discontented to seek a true legislative reversal of the maximalists' recent gains.

T.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jan 01 - 03:03 PM

Well, if you want an entertainment industry, you gotta pay for it.

Subject: RE: Future of Music rights - conference
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 11 Jan 01 - 07:19 PM

Here is an Inside.com article about how one computer expert is afraid to publish the results of his work on the SDMI because publishing might put him in violation of the "anti trafficking" provisions of the DMCA.

Here is a San Jose Mercury News item about Hatch's speech.

Richard Bridge wrote:

if you want an entertainment industry, you gotta pay for it.

True. The sun rises and sets, too; the moon waxes and wanes. None of these three trivial observations advances the state of the debate on any of the issues that the conference is addressing.

T.