Panelists
Dozens of panelists from musicians to rock stars to copyright lawyers to inventors & innovators, all experts in their fields.
Our guests included ‘Punk-rock’s Poet Laureate’ Patti Smith, hip-hop phenom Buck 65, the inventor of MP3 Dr. Karlheinz Brandenberg, acclaimed neuroscientist, author & producer Dr. Daniel Levitin, legendary producer Sandy Pearlman, Princeton University's notorious DRM hacker Ed Felten, Murray Lightburn of The Dears, and Nick Thornburn of Islands. Check below for the complete list of panelists from Pop and Policy 2007.
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NAME |
POSITION Lawyer |
ORGANIZATION Gowlings |
NOTES |
| Steve Albini | Owner and Engineer | Electrical Audio | *Producer of Nirvana, The Pixies, PJ Harvey |
| Dominic Arsenault | Video game writer, Lecturer |
Université de Montréal Film Studies | |
| David Basskin | President | CMRRA | BIO |
| Skratch Bastid |
Sampling artist |
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| Bryan Bean |
Puretracks |
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| Anne-Marie Bergeron |
Videographer | 33mag.tv |
BIO |
| Christian Bernhardt |
The Kork Agency |
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| Alexandre Bérard |
Fondateur Titanium Mobile |
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| Susan Bincolleto | Industry Canada | ||
| Jean-Robert Bisaillon |
Digital Watch Consultant / Founder | SPACQ / SOPREF |
BIO |
| James Booth |
Producer |
CBC Radio 3 | |
| Bryan Borzykowski |
Journalist |
New Pollution |
BIO |
| Rupert Bottenberg | Editor, Critic | Montreal Mirror | |
| Mario Bouchard |
General Counsel |
Copyright Board of Canada |
BIO |
| Patricia Boushel |
Video Producer / Organizer |
Indie / |
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| Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg |
Fraunhofer Institute |
*Invented MP3! |
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| Keith Brown |
Director of Operations |
DKD Label Group |
BIO |
| Marie-Pierre Brunelle |
Accounts Executive, Radio & Concerts |
SOCAN | BIO |
| Buck 65 |
Artist |
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| Jean-Pierre Caissie |
Artistic Coordinator |
DARE-DARE |
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| Lorraine Carpenter | Music Critic | Montreal Mirror | |
| Owen Chapman | Assistant Professor |
Dept. Communications Studies, Concordia University |
BIO |
| Larry Crane |
Jackpot! Recording & TapeOp Magazine |
BIO | |
| Lawyer |
Gowlings / SOCAN |
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| Martha de Francisco |
Producer, Sound Engineer |
Assoc. Professor, McGill University |
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| Dave Derr |
President |
Empirical Labs |
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| Dagoberto Donato |
Trama Virtual (Brazil) |
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| John Drake |
Harmonix | Agents of Fortune |
*Guitar Hero game creator |
| Solange Drouin |
Vice-présidente aux affaires publiques et directrice générale |
ADISQ | BIO |
| Douglas Eck |
Asst. Professor, Computer Science / Visiting Researcher |
Université de Montréal / Sun Labs, Boston |
BIO |
| Ed Felten |
Computer Science and Public Affairs |
University Princeton |
*Infamous DRM hacker BIO |
| David Fewer |
Faculty of Law |
University of Ottawa |
BIO |
| William W. (Terry) Fisher | Hale and Dorr Professor of Property Law / Director |
Harvard University / Berkman Center for Internet and Society | |
| Ichiro Fujinaga |
Associate Professor of Music Technology |
McGill University |
BIO |
| Federica Furlotti |
A&R | One Little Indian Records/Tangled Up! Recordings - UK |
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| Brett Gaylor |
Filmmaker | opensourcecinema.org |
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| Kiriakoula Hatzikiriakos |
Partner |
McMillan Binch Mendelsohn |
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| Leila Hebden |
Band Manager |
Dote Management |
BIO |
| Vice President |
Songwriters Assoc. of Canada |
BIO |
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| Steven Himmelfarb |
Booking Agent |
Paquin Entertainment |
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| Paul Hoffert |
CEO / Faculty Fellow |
Noank Media Inc. / Harvard University |
BIO |
| Craig Hutchison | Chief Designer |
manley Audio |
BIO |
| Paul Irvine |
Entertainment Paralegal |
Sanderson Entertainment Law |
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| Simon Jodoin |
Artist |
Fuckingruvin virtual dumb band |
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| Keith Jones |
Program Director |
Music on Film Film on Music |
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| Professor |
Graduate School of journalism, Columbia University |
BIO |
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| Lenny Kaye | Artist | Guitarist (Patti Smith) | BIO |
| Jay Kerr-Wilson |
Lawyer, Communications, Technology and IP |
Fasken Martneau Dumoulin LLP |
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| Paul Lamere |
Lead Researcher, Search Inside the Music Project |
Sun Microsystems Laboratories |
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| David Lametti |
Associate Professor Faculty of Law |
McGill University |
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| Grant Lawrence |
Host and Radio Personality |
CBC Radio 3 |
BIO |
| Bruce Lehman |
President and CEO / Principal Author |
International Intellectual Property Institute / Digital Music Copyright Act |
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| Cynthia Leive |
Head Librarian |
Marvin Duchow Music Library | BIO |
| Dr. Daniel Levitin |
Max Bell Chair: Psychology of Information Sciences |
McGill University |
BIO |
| Murray Lightburn |
Artist |
The Dears |
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| Lisa Macdonald |
CEO |
myrockinprofile.com |
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| Jospeh Malloch | *inventor of "T-stick" | ||
| Stefan Martin |
Avocat |
Fraser, Milner & Casgrain |
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| George Massenburg |
George Massenburg Labs & Massenburg DesignWorks | *Grammy Award Winner for Technical Achievement BIO |
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| Albert Maysles | Documentary Filmmaker |
Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens | |
| Walter McDonough |
General Counsel |
Future of Music Coalition |
BIO |
| Don K. McLean |
Dean |
Schulich School of Music, McGill University |
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| Stacey A. Mitsopulos |
Lawyer |
Taylor, Mitsopulos, Burshtein Entertainment Lawyers |
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| Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse |
Faculty of Law |
McGill University |
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| John Nichols |
Washington Editor / Author |
The Nation / The Genius of Impeachment |
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| Alex O'Shea |
Artist |
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| Mikael Pass | Host / Producer | Danish National Radio | |
| Eli Pasternak | Co-Founder, CTO | BridgeWave Communications, Netro | Co-inventor of SCM - Signal Code Modulation BIO |
| Sandy Pearlman |
Producer |
*Produced The Clash, Blue Öyster Cult; Managed Black Sabbath BIO |
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| Dimitri Perrier |
Talent Buyer |
Festival Sous la plage |
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| Shawn Petsche | Coordinator |
Art Pop |
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| Fred Pinto |
Lawyer |
SPIEGEL SOHMER INC | |
| Tina Piper |
Faculty of Law |
McGill University |
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| Jonas Prangeroed | OYA Festival |
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| Evan Prodromou |
Co-founder |
WikiTravel |
wiki-programming 'guru' |
| Jeffrey Remedios |
Founder | Arts & Crafts Records |
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| Keith Robinson | Producer-Editor / Restorer-Editor-Meta Archivist |
When We Were Kings / The Sinatra Archives |
BIO |
| Daniel Rogers | Laneway Festival (Australia) |
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| Diane Sammer |
CEO | Goombah.com |
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| Gilles St. Laurent |
Audio Conservator |
National Library of Canada |
BIO |
| Catherine Saxberg |
Executive Director |
CMPA |
BIO |
| Jean-Louis Schell |
Alias / JHD Productions |
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| Eddie Schwartz |
President / VP |
Songwriters' Hall of Fame / Songwriters Association Canada | Songwriter behind "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"... BIO |
| Scratch Bastid | Artist |
BIO | |
| Dan Seligman | Producer / Manager, Creative Director | Pop Montreal |
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| Robin Simpson |
Pavilion Projects |
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| Lars Skovgaard |
head of Programming |
VEGA (Denmark) |
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| Johanne Sloan |
Séripop |
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| Patti Smith |
Artist |
Poet Laureate of Punk; Rock & Roll hall of Famer |
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| Matt Sonzala |
SXSW Music Festival |
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| Karla Starr |
Journalist |
Williamette Week |
BIO |
| Jessie Stein |
Artist |
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| Shelley Stein-Sacks |
General Manager | FUSION III | BIO |
| Professor, Art History and Communications | McGill University | ||
| Donald Tarlton |
Producer |
DKD Entertainment | *Legendary concert producer: Rolling Stones, The Who, Bowie, Supertramp, Dylan, Sting... BIO |
| Jamie Thompson |
Artist | UNICORNS |
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| Kristin Thomson |
Deputy and Education Director | Future of Music Coalition |
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| Nick Thornburn |
Artist |
ISLANDS, UNICORNS |
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| Brian Whitman |
Co-founder of The Echo NEst Corporation |
MIT Media Lab |
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| Wieslaw Woszczyk |
James McGill Professor, Sound Recording |
McGill University |
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| STUDENT PRESENTERS, McGILL |
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| Alexandra Bizani Genevieve Bonenfant Clive Chang William Darling Nicholas Dodd Jordan Frank¸Computer Science Cara Helmke Imad Khoury, CIRMMT Monique Leroux¸ David Matthews Cory McKay Jeremy Morris Ariana Moscote Freire Ryan Oldham Olivier Plessis Carlos Puyo Eric Thul Stavros Tsonkonas Jamshed Turel Nuo Nathan Yu |
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