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Joint Study on Sections 109 and 117

Joint Study on 17 U.S.C. Sections 109 and 117 Required Pursuant to DMCA Section 104

Public Hearing November 29, 2000
Summaries of Testimony, Prepared Statements, and Transcript

A full transcript of the Nov. 29 hearing is available here. A schedule of the hearings with individual summaries and statements appears below.

9:30-9:45     Introduction

Hon. Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights

Prepared Statement

 
Hon. Gregory L. Rohde, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information

Prepared Statement

9:45-11:00     Panel 1

James Neal and Rodney Peterson

American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association,
Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association,
and Special Libraries Association

Summary
 
Allan Adler
Association of American Publishers

Summary

 
Bernard Sorkin
Time Warner Inc.

Summary

 
Fritz Attaway Motion Picture Association of America

Summary


11:00-12:30     Panel 2

Keith Kupferschmid
Software and Information Industry Association

Summary

 
Lee Hollaar

Summary

 
Emery Simon
Business Software Alliance
Summary
 
Scott Moskowitz.
Blue Spike, Inc

Summary

 
Nic Garnett
Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Summary

Prepared Statement


12:30-1:45 Lunch Break

1:45-3:10 Panel 3

Susan Mann
National Music Publishers' Association, Inc.

Summary

Prepared Statement
 
Marvin Berenson
Broadcast Music Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement
 
Gary Klein
Home Recording Rights Coalition
Summary
 
Pamela Horovitz
National Association of Recording Merchandisers
Summary Prepared Statement
 
John T. Mitchell (for Crossan Andersen)
Video Software Dealers Association
Summary Prepared Statement

3:10-4:35     Panel 4

Professor Peter Jaszi
Digital Future Coalition
Summary Prepared Statement
 
Seth Greenstein Digital Media Association
Summary
 
Steven J. Metalitz
American Film Marketing Association, Association of American Publishers, Business Software Alliance, Interactive Digital Software Association, Motion Association of America, National Music Publishers' Association, and Recording Industry Association of America
Summary Prepared Statement
 
Daniel Duncan
Digital Commerce Coalition
Summary
 
Carol Kunze
Red Hat, Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement


4:35-6:00 Panel 5

Cary Sherman
Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
Summary
 
David Goldberg
Launch Media, Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement
 
David Beal
Sputnik7.com
Summary
 
David Pakman
myPlay Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement
 
Bob Ohweiler
MusicMatch Inc.
Summary
 
Alex Alben
RealNetworks, Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement
 
Robert Nelson (for Charles Jennings)
Supertracks, Inc.
Summary Prepared Statement

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