Consumer Electronics Association - The Art of Learning - Conference Brochure, 2008 - (Page 27) ULTIMATE PASS SESSIONS CES KNOWLEDGE TRACKS ISSUES AND ATTITUDES IA1 THE TRUE COST OF DRM: WHAT CAN’T WE DO NOW? 10:30– 11:30 a.m. Monday, January 7 LVCC, North Hall, N254 Few CE technologies have been more contentious than Digital Rights Management (DRM). With companies like Apple and AOL offering DRM-free music, will this protection become a thing of the past? And now that movies are becoming easier to download, how is DRM being applied? Moderator: Xeni Jardin, NPR Tech Contributor, BoingBoing.net Panelists: Fred Von Lohman, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Russell Frackman, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Ian Rogers, General Manager, Yahoo! Music Jonathan Lee, Executive Vice President, Business Development, MediaDefender Inc. Dr. Pat Aufderheide, Director, Center for Social Media and Professor, School of Communication, American University “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY” PRESENTS A COMPLEX SET OF ISSUES, MADE EVEN MORE SO BY LIGHTNING-FAST ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND VARIATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW. IS EXISTING LAW APPROPRIATE, CONSIDERING NEW DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS? WHAT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES DO CONTENT DISTRIBUTORS HAVE TOWARD COMPETING CONSUMER AND CREATOR INTERESTS? EXPLORE A RANGE OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN THOUGHT-PROVOKING SESSIONS ON THE HOT-BUTTON TOPICS OF THE DAY, INCLUDING THE INDUSTRY’S GROWING “GREEN” CONSCIOUSNESS AND NEW SOURCES OF CAPITAL FOR SMALLER INNOVATORS. Visit www.CESweb.org/conferences for current program updates. 27 http://www.CESweb.org/conferences
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