From Wireless to IPod, Alternative Compensations on the New Pipelines
Friday March 5, 2004 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel

CD sales fall across the board. Fastest in territories with greatest Internet penetration. Conventional channels of distribution and promotion fold under pressure of piracy, consolidation and downsizing. Yet actual lust for and consumption of recorded music on new pipelines, fed by revolutionary platforms reaching from Wireless to IPodia simultaneously rises to an exponentiating all time high. Consider for example this telling bit of trivia: Personalized "ringtones" for cellular phones outsold singles in the UK this year. To escape the paradoxicon and take advantage of an "accidental" platform revolution it always needed, but, never seemed to want, all the Music Industry ‚ or maybe just the rights holders ‚ really needs to do is to figure out how to get paid. Grok the hot new acronym, ACS. Time to get used to it, before it gets to you. Come along with the experts and experience a full spectrum tour of the wonderful world of Alternative Compensations on the New Pipelines.

Moderator: Walter F. McDonough, General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition, MA, USA

Panelists: Norman Miller, VP, Strategic Marketing, BMG Music Canada, ON, Canada; Sandy Pearlman, VP Media Development, Multicast Technologies Inc., CA, USA; Terry Fisher, Professor, Harvard Law School, USA; Richard Pfohl, General Council, CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association), ON, Canada; Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; Michael McGuire, Research Director, Gartner Group, CA, USA

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