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

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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 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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