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Get Ready for the 2011 World Copyright Summit in Brussels

Following an outstanding success in Washington, DC in 2009, the World Copyright Summit will be back in Europe in 2011. Organised by CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers), it will be held on June 7-8 2011 in Brussels.

The Summit is the world’s premier event for all stakeholders involved in the future of the creative industries. It brings together creators, rights organizations and guilds, policymakers, representatives of the entertainment and cultural sector, ISPs and content service providers, media and telecommunications operators, IT and hardware manufacturers, and legal experts to debate the future of copyright and the distribution of creative works in the digital era.

The entire 2009 World Copyright Summit material is now available online (videos, photos and speeches) on www.cisac.org.

Outstanding outcome for the 2nd edition of the World Copyright Summit!

Thanks to over 610 participants (from 290 companies and 68 countries), 102 speakers, 41 reporters, the Summit Advisory Committee, 21 partner organizations, 23 media partners and numerous people who contributed their time and ideas, the second edition of CISAC’s International forum was a huge success.

The Summit brought together creators, rights organizations and guilds, policymakers, content service providers, broadcasters, telecommunications operators, hardware manufacturers and legal experts to debate the future of copyright and the distribution of creative works in the digital era.

Many positive ideas came out of the discussions in Washington, DC (see final press release and in-depth summary of Summit conferences). The entire World Copyright Summit material is now available online (Videos, photos and speeches) on www.cisac.org.

The Summit this year gathered together a large panel of stakeholders acting as key players in the creative industries:

• Renowned creators:

Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter & performer; French visual artist and painter Hervé Di Rosa; US songwriter, producer and performer Lamont Dozier; US film director and screenwriter Milos Forman; Mexican musician and composer Armando Manzanero; US painter and sculptor Frank Stella; Spanish screenwriter and film director Fernando Trueba; US songwriter, recording artist and actor Paul Williams. As well as Norwegian composer and saxophonist Bendik Hofseth; Mozambique singer and songwriter Lizha James; US composer, jazz pianist and producer Marcus Johnson; Ethiopian-US writer Dinaw Mengestu; and British William Scott Foundation director Robert Scott.

• Key copyright policy makers:

Christine Albanel, French Minister of Culture and Communication; Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee; Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Chairman of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee; Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Ranking Member of the US Senate Judiciary Committee; Congressman Robert Wexler, Chairman of the Intellectual Property Caucus and of the Europe Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Assemblyman Dr. Yong-Kyung Lee, Ranking member of the Korean National Assembly’s culture and broadcasting Committee; and the US Register of Copyright’s Marybeth Peters.

• Industry leaders and academics:

Bertelsmann Inc. Co-Chairman Richard Sarnoff; Google Senior VP Legal Affairs David Drummond; Consumer Electronics Association President & CEO Gary Shapiro; Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman & CEO David Renzer; World Bank SVP & Group General Counsel Anne-Marie Leroy; National Music Publishers Association President & CEO David Israelite; Law Professors Michael Heller and Ralph Oman.

• Leading Industry speakers from: Bowker, Choruss, Copyright Alliance, DiMA, EMI Music Publishing, HFA, ICMP, IFPI, KOCH, Microsoft Corporation, MPAA, Merlin, NAB, NCAA, Nokia, peermusic, PlayLouder, PLUS Coalition, Public Knowledge, Real Networks, RIAA, Sony/ATV, Time Warner, The Orchard, UK Music, Warner/Chappell Music, YouTube…
• CEOs and Board members of major copyright societies and guilds around the world representing the musical, audiovisual and visual arts repertoires (APRA, ADAGP, ASCAP, ARS, BMI, CMRRA, COTT, DGA, GEMA, JASRAC, PRS for Music, SACD, SACEM, SAMRO, SESAC, SGAE, STIM, Teosto, VISCOPY, WGA West, etc…)
• The World Copyright Summit was organized by CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, with the support of the 10 US Right Societies members of CISAC: AMRA, ARS, ASCAP, BMI, DGA, NMPA, SESAC, The Authors’ Registry, VAGA and WGA.