Industry Leaders to the White House for Piracy Summit
Vice President Joseph Biden is leading a roundtable on Tuesday with Hollywood CEOs, music industry execs and legal experts in what is being billed as a first-of-its-kind discussion on piracy.
He'll be joined by Attorney General Eric Holder, Homland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, FBI director Robert Mueller and Secret Service director Mark Sullivan.
Among those expected are Sony's Michael Lynton, Warner Bros.' Barry Meyer, Viacom's Philippe Dauman, NBC Universal's Jeffrey Zucker, Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman, Harper Collins CEO Brian Murray, Universal Music Group's Zachary Horowitz, the MPAA's Dan Glickman, the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol, IATSE's international president Matthew Leob, AFTRA'S Kim Roberts Hedgepeth, DGA president Taylor Hackford, DGA exec director Jay Roth and SAG's David White.
Also present will be the administration's new "copyright czar," Victoria Espinel.
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Who will be there to represent the piracy industry? I'm free tomorrow, Joe...
Posted by: joe beuckman | December 14, 2009 at 05:24 PM
Joe Biden further proves himself as a whore for the RIAA.
Posted by: bobby d | December 14, 2009 at 06:25 PM
I wonder if they'll be discussing the largest pirates of all, the music industry itself... http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735096--geist-record-industry-faces-liability-over-infringement
Posted by: Aaron | December 14, 2009 at 06:54 PM
Content piracy and its practitioners and advocates are contemptible and efforts to stamp it out are worthwhile.
However I have to say that because of the rise of physical, old-school piracy off the Horn of Africa, I thought, based on the headline, that the conference was about THAT. With nautical piracy back, perhaps the unmodified word "piracy" in headlines (other than in media-centric and trade publications) should refer to pirates, not illegal copiers and downloaders.
Posted by: Carney | December 15, 2009 at 06:13 AM
Unfortunately all of these folks will have to wait out at the West Wing gate for 30 minutes while the Secret Service wave the Salahi's through.
Posted by: haywood jablomi | December 15, 2009 at 07:46 AM
Foxes in the hen house.....
Posted by: T-Bag | December 15, 2009 at 09:21 AM
I see the Director's Guild and Actor's guild.. where's the writer's guild?
And why only industrial representation? Copyright law is meant to benefit the people at large. Where is the EFF? Where are representatives of the Creative Commons?
Posted by: Waldo | December 15, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Waldo, I think you mean "Copyright law WAS meant to benefit the people at large." Incidentally, that answers your question about why no EFF or CC representatives will be present.
Posted by: Hal | December 15, 2009 at 03:57 PM
Didn't the movie industry make record profits of $10 Billion last year. And what about the revelation that people that download music spend more money on music? We shouldn't spend another cent to subsidize these business models that are resistant to progress, stifling the very innovation the laws are supposed to create.
Posted by: tommy | December 15, 2009 at 07:41 PM