Digital Download Conference Features Debates Over Copyrights And Consumers' Home Recording And Fair Use Rights

New CEA Conference Includes Rap Icon Chuck D, U.S. Congressmen Billy Tauzin And Rick Boucher, And Napster Executive

1-Mar-01

The Digital Download, an informative one-day conference exploring the proper balance between home recording and fair use rights, intellectual property and new technologies in the digital age, will take place on Tuesday, March 6, 2001 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).Featured speakers include The Honorable Rick Boucher and the Honorable Billy Tauzin of the U.S. House of Representatives, Manis Cooney, Vice President of Corporate and Public Policy for Napster, Chuck D, Internet music advocate and founder of Rapstation.com, Fritz Attaway, Executive Vice President of Government Affairs for the Motion Picture Association of America, and Jordan Greenhall, founder and CEO, DivXNetworks.Registration for The Digital Download is $199 through March 5 and $299 on-site. Official government attendees are offered a special $30 registration rate. To download registration forms or for more information, visit www.CE.org/digitaldownload. Sponsors of this conference include the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), Sony, Digital Future Coalition, Replication News, Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), Home Recording Rights Coalition, DIMA, National Consumers League (NCL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Firehose, Hollywood Aftermarket, Mitsubishi and Audiovox. Source: CEA