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The Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Series was created to merge entertainment law issues with insight on the new technology and media concerns that are at the forefront of the entertainment and technology industries in an attempt to foster lively discussions and debates amongst these communities.?It?s been over a year since we?ve brought the Series to Los Angeles and we hope that you will join us as we debate the following issues:

• Comparing International Anti-Piracy Strategies
• The Continuing Digital Evolution of the First Sale Doctrine
• Digital Television Innovation, Competition and Copyright
• Copyright Trolls or Creative Lawyering? Are Mass Copyright Infringement Suits Ethical? Can They Be Effective Deterrents, or a Successful Business Model?

PRELIMINARY AGENDA TOPICS

Speakers to be confirmed in the coming weeks.

• PANEL 1: Comparing International Anti-Piracy Strategies
  Governments worldwide have tried a variety of different methods of reducing online piracy. Some have focused on criminal and civil liability for illegal downloading, others have adopted website blocking and filtering laws, and some have relied primarily on public education and efforts to improve legal distribution services. Panelists will discuss anti-piracy methods employed in various countries, their effectiveness and reasons for differing results, and how lessons learned might be useful to Congress and U.S. markets.
• PANEL 2: The Continuing Digital Evolution of the First Sale Doctrine
  As traditional media continues marching from physical to digital, U.S. courts continue to define the contours of the copyright First Sale Doctrine. Several 9th Circuit decisions recently addressed whether purchasers of games, music and business software are ?owners? or merely licensees (Universal Music Group v. Augusto, Vernor v. Autodesk, MDY v. Blizzard), and now a district court in the 2nd Circuit is considering whether the first sale doctrine applies to ?digital resale? of sound recordings (Capitol Records v. ReDigi). The panel will discuss the legal theories and the real-world implications of this continuing line of first sale cases, including the potential impact on cloud computing.
• PANEL 3: Digital Television Innovation, Competition and Copyright
  The Cartoon Network/Cablevision case extended consumer home recording rights to remote DVRs, and now the Aereo case is threatening to extend ?home? recording rights to remote antennas that do not even transmit to our homes. Meanwhile, back inside the house, Dish Network?s Hopper DVR has re-ignited the debate about automatic ad-skipping technology, and reminding observers of the ReplayTV litigation many years ago. Is television as-we-know-it essentially over? And how will these new models affect traditional revenue streams or create new ones?
• PANEL 4: Copyright Trolls or Creative Lawyering? Are Mass Copyright Infringement Suits Ethical? Can They Be Effective Deterrents, or a Successful Business Model?
  U.S. Copyright Group and Righthaven LLC are two prominent examples of plaintiffs initiating mass copyright infringement suits in partnership with rightsholders. This enforcement model has also been attempted in Germany and the UK. Why has this model not been generally effective? Do ASCAP, BMI and the Copyright Clearance Center provide alternative enforcement models, or are the incentives in those models inadequate to incentivize investors in lawsuits? Why are ?patent trolls? more effective than so-called copyright trolls?

Source: http://digitalmusic.org/events/los-angeles-entertainment-technology-law-conference/

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