The Digital Marketplace: Is It Out There?
Thursday March 4, 2004 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel

At last, with iTunes, Napster 2, Puretracks and other promising legit, low-priced online music-download services, we may finally be ready to take the 'Net back from the peer-to-peer pirates. But what if we don't? What if 'free' finally proves too tough a nut to crack? Are compulsory licences for digital transmissions a realistic fallback? We'll examine these licences and take a look at where the money might go.

Moderator: Ted Cohen, Vice President, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI, Hollywood, CA

Panelists: Sean Ryan, VP Music Services, Real Networks Inc., CA, USA; Alistair Mitchell, Business Development, Moontaxi Media Inc. Puretracks.com, ON, Canada; Laura Goldberg, President and COO, Napster - NY, NY, USA; Ellie Hirschhorn, GM & EVP, MusicNet New York, NY, USA

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