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Bios of the
Forum panelists
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Vikram Amar
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Expertise: Appellate, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal
Procedure, Remedies.
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Professor Amar joined the Hastings faculty in 1998 after teaching at the
University of California at Davis School of Law since 1993. He has also
taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law each year since 1995. In 1997 he taught at the University of
California at Los Angeles School of Law.
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He received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California
at Berkeley and his J.D. from Yale, where he served as an Articles Editor
for the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduating from law school in 1988, Professor
Amar clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the
United States Supreme Court. After that he spent a few years at Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher, devoting half of his time to federal white-collar criminal
defense and the other half to complex civil litigation.
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Professor Amar writes, teaches and consults in the public law fields,
especially constitutional law, civil procedure, and remedies. He is a
co-author (along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat) of Constitutional
Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 12th ed. 2005), and is a
co-author on a number of volumes of the Wright & Miller Federal Practice and
Procedure Treatise (West Publishing Co.). In addition, he has published in a
variety of journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law
Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law
Review, the California Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the
Hastings Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, the Hastings Constitutional
Law Quarterly, and the Green Bag Journal. |
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Professor Margreth Barrett |
| Expertise: Copyright/Intellectual Property. |
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Professor Barrett received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature from
the University of South Florida, along with the distinction "University
Scholar." After three years of employment with the Florida State University
System, Professor Barrett attended Duke University School of Law, where she
served as editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal and held the Hardt Cup
Moot Court Championship. She received the Faculty Award for Greatest
Contribution to Legal Scholarship, Class of 1980. |
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Before joining the Hastings faculty in 1984, Professor Barrett served as a
law clerk to the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat, United States Circuit Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced law with the firm of Howard,
Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk in San Francisco. |
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Although she has taught in the fields of corporate law and real property,
Professor Barrett's primary focus is intellectual property. She is the
author of a case book for the intellectual property survey course and writes
primarily in the fields of trademark and copyright law. |
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Todd Brabec |
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Todd Brabec, Executive Vice President and Director of Membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), is in charge of all of the Society's membership operations throughout the world (200,000 writer and publisher members and 8 offices). A former entertainment law attorney, recording artist and graduate of the New York University School of Law, he is a winner of the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism with over 100 published articles, is co-author of the best selling book MUSIC, MONEY AND SUCCESS: THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
(Schirmer Trade Books/Music Sales) and is an adjunct professor at the USC Thornton School of Music/Music Industry Department where he teaches the business of music publishing. |
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Brabec is also the 2005 and 2006 Division Chair for the Music and Personal Appearances section (panels) for the ABA Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries Annual Convention. |
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For more information on the music business as well as Music, Money and Success updates join us at
www.musicandmoney.com. |
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Glenn Otis Brown |
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Executive Director, Creative Commons |
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Started: Jan 2002 Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative
Commons since Summer 2002. Before that, he served as Assistant Director.
Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on
Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence
Lessig. |
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Before coming to Creative Commons, Glenn clerked for the Honorable Stanley
Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he
worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has
also worked stints at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on
general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at Digital Age, a New York
public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for
a season. |
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Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa)
and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). In college, Glenn was awarded a
national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in
public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and
worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized
Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation
with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
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| Kate Connally, Director of Business Development, Atom Films |
| Kate Connally manages
business development for AtomShockwave Corp, the leading online
entertainment company. Prior to her role in business development,
Connally launched and lead product marketing for Shockwave.com's
downloadable games business. Prior to Shockwave.com, Connally was
an Associate at Advent International, a venture capital firm, from
1996 to 1998. Before Advent International, Connally worked at
Volpe, Welty
and Company in the corporate
finance group handling public offerings, mergers, and acquisitions
for digital media and Internet companies. Connally graduated cum
laude with a B.A. in History from Princeton University in 1994. |
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| Gary
Culpepper, Of Counsel, Idell, Berman & Sitel |
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| Before joining Idell, Berman and Seitel in October, 2004,
Gary D. Culpepper had his own consulting company, Culpepper
Consulting, where he consulted with various independent start-up
music-related entertainment entities, film/TV companies, artists,
songwriters, agents and personal managers regarding acquisition of
digital downloading rights for digital music distribution and
third-party licensing of intellectual property rights.
In December 1997, he co-founded EMusic, and served as
Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, where he was
responsible for the acquisition of all intellectual property for
purposes of the digital distribution of music utilizing mp3
technology. Such acquisitions included the purchase of major record
catalogues, publishing and exclusive licenses of major artist
recordings from over 750 independent record labels totaling more
than 200,000 songs for exploitation by EMusic.
Additionally, responsibilities included the drafting,
negotiation and administration of all music-related rights granted
to EMusic, as well as the licensing out of rights for third-party
exploitation in film, TV, commercials, advertising, etc.
From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Culpepper had a private law practice
which specialized in music and entertainment transactions for
recording artists, producers and songwriters. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Culpepper served as Senior Counsel for
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia/TriStar Home Video
division. Mr.
Culpepper previously served as Vice President, Business
Affairs/Music for Paramount Pictures Corporation, Director of
Business Affairs for Capitol Records, Inc., Senior Counsel for
Casablanca Records & Filmworks, Assistant General Counsel for
ABC Records, and Manager, A&R Administration for A&M
Records. All of the above-mentioned jobs included responsibilities for
the negotiation, structuring, and administration of all
music-related rights for all film and soundtrack licensing
agreements, artist recording, record producer and music publishing
agreements, budget planning, and financial analysis for all
music-related deal-making activities.
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| Zeki Orak, founder
of Puzzoo Games |
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Mr. Orak
graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul
Turkey in 1989 with a master's
degree in Industrial Design. In 1983 he
started Orak Design http://www.orak.com,
an award winning graphic design
firm servicing Fortune 500 companies. In 1990 Mr. Orak put his
game and toy making hobbies in
to practice and licensed a number of his
inventions to major toy companies such as Ringling Bro. Barnum
& Bailey
Circus, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Tyco, Hasbro, and Tiger
Electronics. In 1996 his early
hand held electronic abstract strategy game,
"Lite3" sold over a million copies in its first year
alone. Mr. Orak started
Puzzoo Games http://www.puzzoo.com
in 1999 and created 8 online
titles for his site. In 2002 he moved in to wireless games and
become a Nokia Pro-Partner. His
games continue to sell around the world,
primarily in Chile, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and
the USA through AT&T.
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| Professor
Aaron Rappaport
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| Expertise: Telecommunications Law, Criminal Law, Sentencing Law,
Jurisprudence, and Moral Theory. |
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Aaron Rappaport was born and raised in New York City. He attended Yale
University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in engineering,
and Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the
Yale Law & Policy Review. |
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After graduating from law school, Professor Rappaport held several positions
within the federal government, ultimately working in each of its four
branches. He first clerked for the Honorable Stephen Breyer, then Chief
Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Entering the political fray, he
served for three years as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on the Constitution, and then, during the budget battle of
1996, joined the Clinton Administration to serve as an Assistant Director of
the National Economic Council. From 1996 to 1998, Professor Rappaport was a
member of the General Counsel's staff of the Federal Communications
Commission, where he represented the FCC in litigation before the U.S. Court
of Appeals. In addition to his government work, Professor Rappaport has been
co-editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, a criminal sentencing journal,
since 1996. |
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