Wm. A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering and vice chair of the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. He is on leave from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he is AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Among his activities at the university are a complete revision of the undergraduate computer science curriculum, research on computer architecture and computer security, and an effort to assist humanities scholars exploit information technology.
Wulf has had a distinguished professional career that includes serving as assistant director of the National Science Foundation; chair and chief executive officer of Tartan Laboratories Inc., Pittsburgh; and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 80 papers and technical reports, has written three books, and holds two U.S. patents.
Michael S. Keplinger has a B.S. degree in Chemistry with a minor in Physics. While working at the then National Bureau of Standards (NBS) as a computer scientist, he earned his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the Maryland Bar.
In 1976 he was appointed as Assistant Executive Director and General Counsel of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) where he was responsible for coordination all research activities regarding computer uses of copyrighted works. Since then, in positions in the Copyright Office and the Patent and Trademark Office he has been one of the U. S. Government’s leading copyright experts.
He has extensive experience in U.S. and international copyright. He has been a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the legal protection of computer programs, semiconductor chips and the implementation of various WIPO treaties and to the UNESCO on various copyright topics. He was the principal copyright negotiator for the United States in the negotiations on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual property (TRIPs) in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations that led to the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He has represented the United States in many international meetings at WIPO and UNESCO dealing with copyright and neighboring rights protection including protection for performers rights, legal protection for computer software, computer uses of copyrighted works, legal protection for semiconductor chips and special copyright problems of developing countries.
He has represented the United States in several Diplomatic Conferences convened under the auspices of WIPO aimed at developing new treaties for the international protection of copyrights and neighboring rights. He has served as the Alternate Head of Delegation for the 1989 Diplomatic Conference on the legal Protection of Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits, he served in the same capacity for the 1996 Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions, and in December of 2000 he was the chief US negotiator at the Diplomatic Conference on Protection for the Rights of Audiovisual Performers.
Jonathan Potter has served as Executive Director of the Digital Media Association (DiMA) since its creation in June 1998. Under his tenure, DiMA has become a formidable Congressional and Executive Branch advocate. Today, DiMA represents the leading companies providing online audio and video content.
Named one of Washington's "top technology lobbyists" by The Legal Times' Tech Counsel magazine, and one of the "25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet" by Interactive Week magazine, Mr. Potter also serves as DiMA's principal spokesperson. He frequently testifies before Congress on behalf of the association, and is actively involved in developing and influencing Internet public policy and legislation. Additionally, Mr. Potter was instrumental in creating EDiMA, the European Digital Media Association.
Prior to DiMA, Mr. Potter was a Washington, D.C.-based consultant and attorney, focused largely on intellectual property and technology-oriented public policy issues. His clients included computer and consumer electronics companies, investment banks and thrifts, major museums, health insurers, cable and satellite providers, and real estate developers. During the 1990s, Mr. Potter represented and advised clients on the development of several significant legislative accomplishments, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act, the Audio Home Recording Act and the Fairness in Musical Licensing Act.
While in law school, Mr. Potter served as a political consultant to several Members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as several tax-exempt organizations.
Mr. Potter is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the University of Rochester.
Seth D. Greenstein is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Constantine Cannon. Seth concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation and licensing issues.
Seth has litigated copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret cases involving high technology and software products before the federal courts and the International Trade Commission. He recently argued and won an appeal before the Sixth Circuit in Lexmark Int'l Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., involving novel issues under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and the copyrightability and fair use of software. He has represented satellite, Internet and cable digital music services in rate-setting arbitration and administrative proceedings before the Copyright Office. His litigation experience also includes numerous cases involving antitrust and unfair competition law, as well as contract and complex business tort issues.
Seth's practice includes advice and advocacy on legislative and policy issues relating to intellectual property and high technology products and services. Since the early 1990's, he has represented the interests of consumer electronics companies before Congress and in inter-industry discussions with respect to digital content protection systems for audio and video. In June 1998, he co-founded and since has served as counsel to the Digital Media Association, a trade association advocating the interests of technology companies involved in the protection and delivery of audio and audio-visual works over the Internet and other digital networks. He testified on their behalf before a House Subcommittee considering the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Since 1989, he has participated in the committee meetings of experts of the World Intellectual Property Organization toward drafting model copyright-related laws, the December 1996 Diplomatic Conference which resulted in the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties and, on behalf of Internet webcasters, a potential broadcaster rights treaty against international signal piracy.
His experience also includes advising clients concerning and drafting the licensing of patents, technology, copyrighted works and trademarks.
Seth is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the state of Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Seth has written articles on computer law, licensing and copyright issues for numerous publications, and is a frequent speaker on issues involving copyright and new technology.
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.
Attaway joined MPAA in 1976 after serving as Attorney-Advisor in the Cable Television Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission where he was involved in numerous rulemaking proceedings concerning cable television and pay TV.
He was promoted to Vice President of Congressional Affairs in 1978, was named Senior Vice President in 1986, and Washington General Counsel was added to his title in 1993. In 2005 his title became Special Policy Advisor. He has held the post of Executive Vice President since 2000.
In addition to his position at MPAA, Attaway is an officer of the Motion Picture Association which represents MPAA member companies abroad, and serves on the board of directors of The Copyright Collective of Canada. Attaway is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy of the U.S. State Department.
In 1970 Attaway commenced his legal training at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a National Honors Scholarship. He received his J.D. Degree in June of 1973. Attaway is a member of the District of Columbia and Federal Communications Bar Associations and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the State of Idaho, and United States District Court for the District of Idaho. Attaway received his primary and secondary education in Caldwell, Idaho and attended The College of Idaho where he received a B.A., with honors, in 1968. He majored in political science and business administration.
Jennifer Urban directs the Intellectual Property Clinic at the University of Southern California Law School, a joint project of the Law School, the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Information Services Division of USC. Urban's work focuses on intellectual property and technology law and the intersection of legal rules and technology. Before moving to USC, Urban taught at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall); before teaching, she practiced law in Silicon Valley. She obtained her JD from Boalt, and her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Michael R. Nelson serves as Vice President for Policy of the Internet Society (ISOC), a professional organization whose membership includes more than 21,000 Internet experts in more than 100 countries. In this volunteer position, he guides development of ISOC policy positions, represents ISOC at conferences, does interviews with the press, and provides guidance to ISOC staff working on Internet policy issues. He attended the UN's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003, has been very involved the second phase of WSIS in Tunis in November, 2005, as well as the new Internet Governance Forum. In addition, Nelson chaired the Internet Society's annual INET 2002 meeting and played a key role in the INET 2004 meeting.
Nelson is the Director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, where he manages a team helping define and implement IBM's Next Generation Internet strategy. His group is working with university researchers on NGi technology, shaping standards for the NGi, and communicating IBM's vision of NGi, the Grid, and on demand computing to customers, policy makers, the press, and the general public.
Prior to joining IBM in July, 1998, Nelson was Director for Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission. There he helped craft policies to foster electronic commerce, spur development and deployment of new technologies, and improve the reliability and security of the nation's telecommunications networks.
Before joining the FCC in January, 1997, Nelson was Special Assistant for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked with Vice President Gore and the President's Science Advisor on issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including telecommunications policy, information technology, encryption, electronic commerce, and information policy.
From 1988 to 1993, Nelson served as a professional staff member for the Senate's Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, chaired by then-Senator Gore. He was the lead Senate staffer for the High-Performance Computing Act.
Nelson has a B.S. in geology from Caltech, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT.
James Love is the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. Information about CPTech is on the web at http://www.cptech.org.
An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and members of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force on Intellectual Property.
Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
http://www.cptech.org/jamie/articles.html gives a list some recent articles, reports and chapters.
Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; and other federal and state statutes relating to intellectual property and the Internet. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions.
Mr. Band’s deep substantive knowledge of the application of intellectual property law to information technology permits him to counsel clients on complex copyright issues. Mr. Band is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet, including the book Interfaces on Trial and over 60 articles.
Mr. Band received a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Band worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. Mr. Band established his own law firm in May, 2005.
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