The 56th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN 56) is taking place June 21-25 2015 in Helsinki, Finland. Remote participation/webcast is available via Adobe Connect. Live english transcription plus 7 languages of audio streams are also available. Helsinki, Finland is on EEST, seven hours ahead of NYC (UTC+3)
Roundtable 1: How do we structure a modern digital music distribution music-licensing ecosystem to be more competitive and work efficiently and fairly for all stakeholders?
Moderator: Larry Miller, Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Music Business Program, NYU Steinhardt; Panelists: Michael Katz, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership and Professor, Economics Department and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; David Levin, Vice President, Digital Licensing, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI); Steven Marks, Chief, Digital Business & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America; Katherine Oyama, Senior Policy Counsel, Google, Inc.; Daniel Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law.
Moderator: Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law. Panelists: Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, United States Copyright Office; Mark Eisenberg, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, SoundExchange, Inc.; Andrea Finkelstein, EVP Global Business Affairs Operations, Sony Music Entertainment; James Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse; Casey Rae, Director of Music Licensing, Sirius XM; Lawrence White, Robert Kavesh, Professor of Economics and Deputy Chair, Economic Department, NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Roundtable 3: What Changes to the Current System Are Feasible that Would Facilitate a Transition to a More Competitive Market?
Moderator: Thomas Lenard, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute. Panelists: Dale Collins, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association; Richard Masio, Director of Music Licensing, Pandora; Brad Prendergast, Senior Counsel, Licensing & Enforcement, SoundExchange, Inc.; Tim Quirk, Founder/CEO, Freeform Development; David Wolfert, Songwriter and Producer; Co-Founder, Council of Music Creators and Music Answers; Songwriting Faculty, NYU Steinhardt.
On June 16 2016 ICANN held two Pre-ICANN 56 Policy Update Webinars to brief participants in preparation for the upcoming ICANN Policy Forum in Helsinki. The purpose of the webinar is to summarize policy activities across the ICANN policy development community and the Cross-Community sessions taking place in Helsinki. This webcast is the recording of the second of those sessions:
Today Friday June 17 2015 netCommons and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia aka BarcelonaTech are hosting Workshop on community networking infrastructures with the theme Efficient collaboration between government, citizens and enterprises. The workshop will discuss how they can strengthen ties among these three actors to optimize a specific case of these infrastructures, community networks, with a particular focus on fiber deployment. Sessions will cover 1) governance, 2) regulation, and 3) implementation. The conference has two main objectives: expand knowledge about this type of collaboration and identify specific lines of action to make them more efficient in the future. The event, conducted in English, Catalan, and Spanish, is being streamed live on guifi tv, and mirrored on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Tuesday June 14 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technologyheld a hearing FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules. The hearing follows up on a letter sent to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the agency’s proposed privacy and data breach notification requirements for broadband ISPs. The FTC had its jurisdiction removed when the FCC reclassified broadband as a common carrier. The letter suggests the FCC’s making a separate set of rules governing only ISPs, and not other parts of the Internet ecosystem, would “create confusion and harm competition”. Witnessess were Doug Brake, Telecommunications Policy Analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Jon Leibowitz Co-Chair, 21st Century Privacy Coalition (and former FTC Chair); and Paul Ohm, Professor, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown University Law Center. Video is below:
11am-Noon UN Special Rapporteur on privacy – Prof. Joseph Cannataci
ISOC Members webinar on privacy http://bit.ly/isocprivacy
5:30pm-8pm The Things Network NYC Community meetup #3 (no webcast)
Burgeoning Open IoT Network’s NYC team get together – https://thethingsnetwork.org/c/newyork/
Wednesday 15 June 8:30am-10am Is the Internet Fragmenting? Part 2: The Technical Lens
ISOC-DC and Microsoft ongoing series about keeping it together, or not.
Opening keynote from Dave Farber https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fragmentation2
Thursday 16 June 4pm-5pm IPN-ISOC Virtual Chapter Meeting – http://bit.ly/ipnisoc2016 Code: 923 494 316 Password: 7pQcvHDF
An opportunity to virtually meet with leading interplanetary networking experts like Vint Cerf, Keith Scott, Scott Burleigh and Jay Wyatt.
Friday 17 June
A big Happy Birthday to ISOC Chapters Director Joyce Dogniez!
Today Monday June 5 2016 the Internet Society will present a session “Connected Women” at the African Internet Summit 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana. The Connected Women event will explore how we can all work together to overcome cultural barriers and promote greater involvement of women developing and utilising Internet technology across Africa. It will be centered on shining the light on Africa’s digital trailblazers; celebrating the success of African women and men who have brought about significant change through their work in ICT and promoting open dialogue amongst participants in the room. Speakers: Evelyn Namara, Founder & CTO, Innovate Uganda; Dorcas Muthoni, Founder & CEO, OpenWorld Ltd (Kenya); Agang Ditlhogo, Co-Founder, The Clicking Generation (Botswana); Michuki Mwangi, Regional Development Manager – Africa & Middle East, Internet Society. Moderator: Kathryn Brown, President & CEO, Internet Society. The session will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Next Century Cities has published the audio of its June Members call, a webinar on Digital Inclusion. Participants were Susan Corbett – CEO, Axiom Technology and Axiom Education Training Center (Maine); David Keyes – Community Technology Program Director, Seattle; Pat Millen, Founder/President, E2D (Charlotte NC), and Anne Schwieger – Broadband and Digital Equity Advocate, Boston. Moderator was Chris Mitchell. Listen below:
The 56th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN 56) is taking place June 21-25 2015 in Helsinki, Finland. Remote participation/webcast is available via Adobe Connect. Live english transcription plus 7 languages of audio streams are also available. Helsinki, Finland is on EEST, seven hours ahead of NYC (UTC+3)
On Tuesday June 14 2015, the 
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