Copyright Review Hearings
Below is the full list of copyright review hearings that took place before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, between March 20, 2013 and April 25, 2015. Witness titles and affiliations are listed as they appear in the hearing records. You can download a PDF copy of the full record for each hearing by clicking the link under each hearing title.
The Register’s Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law
March 20, 2013
Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights & Director, U.S. Copyright Office
A Case Study for Consensus Building: the Copyright Principles Project
May 16, 2013
Jon Baumgarten, Former General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office
Laura Gasaway, Professor, UNC School of Law
Daniel J. Gervais, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Professor UC Berkeley School of Law
Jule Sigall, Assistant General Counsel for Copyright, Microsoft Corporation
Innovation in America: The Role of Copyrights
July 25, 2013
Sandra Aistars, Executive Director, Copyright Alliance
Eugene Mopsik, Executive Director, American Society of Media Photographers
Tor Hansen, Co-Founder, Yep Roc Records / Red Eye Distribution
John Lapham, General Counsel, Getty Images
William Sherak, President, Stereo D
Innovation in America: The Role of Technology
August 1, 2013
Danae Ringelmann, Founder & Chief Customer Officer, Indiegogo
Jim Fruchterman, President and CEO, Benetech
Nathan Seidle, CEO, SparkFun Electronics, Inc.
Rakesh Agrawal, Founder & CEO, SnapStream Media
Van Lindberg, VP, Intellectual Property, Rackspace
Satellite Television Laws in Title 17
September 10, 2013
James Campbell, VP for Regulatory Affairs, CenturyLink, Inc.
R. Stanton Dodge, EVP, General Counsel & Secretary, DISH Network, LLC
Paul Donato, EVP & Chief Research Officer, The Nielsen Company
Robert Garrett, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP on behalf of Major League Baseball
Earle MacKenzie, EVP & Chief Operation Officer, Shentel Cable on behalf of American Cable Association
Preston Padden, Former President, ABC Television Network & Former EVP, The Walt Disney Company (on his own behalf)
Gerard J. Waldron, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP on behalf of National Association of Broadcasters
Role of Voluntary Agreements in the U.S. Intellectual Property System
September 18, 2013
Jill Lesser, Executive Director, Center for Copyright Information
Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, RIAA
Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
Gabriel Levitt, VP, PharmacyChecker.com
Robert C. Barchiesi, President, IACC
The Rise of Innovative Business Models: Content Delivery Methods in the Digital Age
November 19, 2013
Paul Misener, VP, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com
John S. McCoskey, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, MPAA
Sebastian Holst, EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, PreEmptive Solutions
David Sohn, General Counsel & Director of CDT’s Project on Copyright & Technology, Center for Democracy & Technology
The Scope of Copyright Protection
January 14, 2014
David Nimmer, Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP
Prof. Glynn S. Lunney Jr., McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law on behalf of Tulane School of Law
Mark F. Schultz, Assoc. Professor of Law & Director of Faculty Development, Southern Illinois University School of Law
James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International
Patricia Griffin, VP & General Counsel, American National Standards Institute
Carl Malamud, President, Public.Resource.Org
The Scope of Fair Use
January 28, 2014
Prof. Peter Jaszi, Faculty Director of Glushko-Samuelson IP Clinic American University Washington College of Law
Prof. June Besek, Executive Director of Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School
Naomi Novik, Author & Co-Founder, Organization for Transformative Works
David Lowery, Singer/Songwriter & Lecturer, Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia
Kurt Wimmer, General Counsel, Newspaper Association of America
Section 512 of Title 17
March 13, 2014
Gregory Lukow, Chief, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conversation, The Library of Congress
Richard Rudick, Co-Chair, Section 108 Study Group
James Neal, VP for Information Services & University Librarian, Columbia University
Jan Constantine, General Counsel, The Authors Guild
Michael C. Donaldson, Partner, Donaldson + Callif LLP
Jeffrey Sedlik, President & Chief Executive Officer, PLUS Coalition
Preservation and Reuse of Copyrighted Works
April 2, 2014
Sean O’Connor, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Annemarie Bridy, Professor of Law, University of Idaho College of Law
Katherine Oyama, Senior Copyright Policy Counsel, Google Inc.
Paul Doda, Global Litigation Counsel, Elsevier Inc.
Maria Schneider, GRAMMY Award Winning Composer & Member of the Recording Academy’s New York Chapter Board
Paul Sieminski, General Counsel, Automattic Inc.
Compulsory Video Licenses of Title 17
May 8, 2014
William J. Roberts Jr., Acting Associate Register of Copyrights; Former Judge of the Copyright Royalty Board, U.S. Copyright Office
R. Stanton Dodge, EVP & General Counsel, DISH Network
Marci K. Burdick, SVP of Broadcasting, Schurz Communications on behalf of National Association of Broadcasters
Matthew M. Polka, President & CEO, American Cable Association
First Sale under Title 17
June 2, 2014
Stephen M. Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
John Ossenmacher, Chief Executive Officer, ReDigi
Ed Shems, edfredned illustration & graphic design
Jonathan Band, Owner’s Rights Initiative
Matthew B. Glotzer
Greg Cram, Associate Director of Copyright & Information Policy, The New York Public Library
Sherwin Siy, VP, Legal Affairs, Public Knowledge
Prof. John Villasenor, Prof. of Electrical Engineering & Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Emery Simon, Counselor, BSA – The Software Alliance
Music Licensing Under Title 17 (Part I)
June 10, 2014
Lee Thomas Miller, Songwriter & President, Nashville Songwriters Association International
Neil Portnow, President & CEO, The Recording Academy
David Israelite, President & CEO, National Music Publishers Association
Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Michael O’Neill, CEO, BMI
Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC
Will Hoyt, Executive Director, TV Music License Committee
Music Licensing Under Title 17 (Part II)
June 25, 2014
Roseanne Cash, Singer, Songwriter, Author & Performer on behalf of Americana Music Association (AMA)
Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, Recording Industry Association of America
Charles M. Warfield Jr., Senior Advisor, YMF Media LLC on behalf of National Association of Broadcasters
Ed Christian, Chairman, Radio Music License Committee Inc.
Darius Van Arman, Co-Founder, Secretly Group on behalf of American Association of Independent Music
Paul Williams, President & Chairman of the Board, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Michael Huppe, President & CEO, SoundExchange Inc.
Chris Harrison, VP Business Affairs, Pandora Media Inc.
David J. Frear, Chief Financial Officer, Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
Moral Rights, Termination Rights, Resale Royalty, and Copyright Term
July 15, 2014
Karyn A. Temple Claggett, Associate Register of Copyrights & Director of Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
Rick Carnes, President, Songwriters Guild of America
Casey Rae, VP for Policy & Education, Future of Music Coalition
Michael W. Carroll, Prof. of Law & Director, Program on Information Justice & Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law
Thomas D. Sydnor II, Visiting Fellow, Center for Internet, Communication & Technology Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Copyright Remedies
July 24, 2014
David Bitkower, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Steven M. Tepp, President/CEO, Sentinel Worldwide
Matt Schruers, VP for Law and Policy, Computer & Communications Industry Association
Sherwin Siy, VP of Legal Affairs, Public Knowledge
Nancy E. Wolff, Partner, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Chapter 12 of Title 17
September 17, 2014
Mark Richert, Director of Public Policy, American Foundation for the Blind
Jonathan Zuck, President, ACT/The App Association
Chrisitian Genetski, SVP & GC, Entertainment Software Association
Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Copyright Issues in Education and for the Visually Impaired
November 19, 2014
Jack Bernard, Associate General Counsel, University of Michigan
Allan Adler, General Counsel, Association of American Publishers
Scott LaBarre, State President (Colo.), National Federation for the Blind
Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, Copyright Clearance Center
The U.S. Copyright Office: Its Functions and Resources
February 26, 2015
Keith Kupferschmid, General Counsel, Software & Information Industry Association
Lisa Dunner, Partner, Dunner Law PLLC, on behalf of the American Bar Association
Nancy Mertzel, Partner, Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Stern LLP on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Assocation
Bob Brauneis, Professor, George Washington University Law School
The Register's Perspective on Copyright Review
April 29, 2015
Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights & Director, U.S. Copyright Office
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