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2006 marked the rapid emergence of a series of new product offerings that radically altered the landscape of content on the Internet. User Generated Content or “UGC” exploded on the scene along with the proliferation of new tools and sites that greatly facilitated collaboration, publication, and distribution by and among individuals. Coupled with widespread adoption and use of social networking sites, the year culminated with the acquisition of YouTube by Google for 1.6 billion dollars. With these new developments come new challenges.

The expansion and adoption of new tools and platforms for creating and delivering content raised the specter of on-going and new litigation among and between rights holders and users. At the same time, given industry’s collective experience, UGC presents new challenges involving issues such as intellectual property, privacy, defamation, consumer protection, negligence, and contract formation that result from the emergence of entirely new types of media and users.

Order the recording of this widely attended audio conference and hear from Pike & Fischer’s panel of experts as they introduced some of the legal issues and challenges related to UGC and help to prepare you for the new media landscape of 2007.

In just 90 minutes, this informative audio conference recording will give you the knowledge to:

• Identify key intellectual property considerations relating to UGC including vicarious and contributory infringement risks
• Understand the implications of the Communications Decency Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act for User Generated Content
• Recognize complications and developments related to terms of use and contract formation
• Appreciate Third Party Rightsin intellectual property and other rights and strategies to address these issues
• Spot special consumer protection and negligence challenges especially as they relate to kids

Gerard M. Stegmaier, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - Gerard M. Stegmaier is an attorney in the Reston, Virginia, office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice encompasses transactional, regulatory and litigation matters for emerging enterprises as well as Fortune 100 companies in the areas of e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property, and the First Amendment. He has counseled dozens of organizations on pressing issues relating to intellectual property and new media. His experience includes the successful defense of Google in the first case to apply the Communications Decency Act to blogging content and the company’s Google News aggregation service. Additionally, he has counseled dozens of companies in connection with privacy and data protection issues and creation of terms of use and service relationships for new media service offerings. He created one of the first law school courses directed at information privacy issues and has assisted the Virginia legislature for the past five years as it evaluated privacy and emerging technology-related legislation.

Fritz Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America - Fritz Attaway is an Executive Vice President and MPAA Special Policy Advisor. Reporting to Chairman and CEO, Dan Glickman, and President and COO, Bob Pisano, Attaway provides legal advice and direction for all federal public policy activities of the association. Attaway also participates in the management of worldwide public policy interests for the association and its member companies. The issues of primary concern to MPAA include communications, copyright, and international trade matters impacting MPAA member companies. MPAA is an assembly of six of the world's largest producers and distributors of theatrical films, TV programs, and home video entertainment. They are Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; The Walt Disney Company; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.; NBC Universal; and Warner Bros.

Tim Deal, Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services - Tim Deal is a Senior Analyst with Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services. Prior to joining Pike & Fischer, Tim spent six years as a senior analyst and writer at a leading competitive intelligence firm in New Hampshire. He has authored more than 100 comprehensive syndicated reports and an equal number of custom financial models covering the computing, consumer electronics, digital media, and storage industries. Prior to his career in competitive intelligence, Tim served as a technology writer and a counterintelligence/human intelligence and force protection analyst with the United States Army.

Lee C. Milstein, DivX, Inc. - Lee C. Milstein is Counsel for DivX, Inc., a digital media company focused on building a common media language, based in San Diego, CA. Lee has, among other things, led the development and implementation of the company’s policies with respect to Stage6,DivX’s online community for those who love high-quality video. Prior to joining DivX, Lee was in private practice in the Intellectual Property Transactional group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York, NY) where he counseled on intellectual property and information technology transactions including outsourcing for both Fortune 100 and rapidly growing technology-driven companies. Lee previously practiced in the Telecommunications group of Steptoe & Johnson LLP (Washington, DC) where he represented companies,including those in the satellite and common carrier sectors, on issues ranging from FCC proceedings to reporting and treatment of personally identifiable information. In addition to his legal training, Lee is a technology fanatic with a bachelor’s degreein cognitive science/artificial intelligence from the University of Rochester. Lee received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Robert McKay Scholar and served as a Notes Editor for the New York University Law Review.

Colette Vogele, Vogele and Associates/Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society - Colette Vogele advises clients on a range of intellectual property questions as they relate to technology, new media and the arts. Prior to establishing Vogele & Associates, she held a residential fellowship with Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society where she led litigation on copyright cases involving constitutional issues and the public domain. In 2006, as a non-resident fellow, she co-authored the first Podcasting Legal Guide with Creative Commons and Harvard's Berkman Center. In January 2007, she launched Rules for the Revolution, a podcast offering commentary on the legal questions faced by podcasters, video-bloggers and others engaged in new media innovations.

The New, New Media Revolution: User Generated Content Audio recording on CD-ROM -- $279.00

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