Joint Study on Sections 109 and 117

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 appear 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

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12:30-1:45 Lunch Break

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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 American, 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