Michele Ballantyne
Senior Vice President, Federal Government and Industry Relations
Recording Industry Association of America
Michele Ballantyne is senior vice president for federal government and industry relations
at RIAA.
Prior to accepting this position, Ballantyne was senior counsel for legislative strategy
in the office of Senate minority leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). Ballantyne is also a veteran
of the Clinton administration. Her appointment is in keeping with the RIAA's strategy of
developing ever-cozier relationships with national lawmakers. The trade group's new CEO,
Mitch Bainwol, who assumed his role last September 1, was a prominent Republican lobbyist
and former chief of staff for Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
Michael Godwin
Legal Director
Public Knowledge
Mike Godwin began his extensive
involvement with the legal and social issues affecting cyberspace, serving as the first
Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where for nine years he informed
users of computer networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed
criminal lawyers and law-enforcement personnel about computer civil-liberties issues, and
conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of
groups. In 1991-92, Godwin chaired a committee of the Massachusetts Computer Crime
Commission, where he supervised the drafting of recommendations to Governor Weld for the
development of computer-crime statutes.
Mike is also a Policy Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology and recently
served as Chief Correspondent at IP Worldwide, a publication of American Lawyer Media, and
as a "IP Land" columnist for American Lawyer magazine. Godwin's articles for
print and electronic publications on topics such as electronic searches and seizures, the
First Amendment & online publications, the application of international law to
computer communications have appeared in the Whole Earth Review, The Quill, Index on
Censorship, Internet World, WIRED, HotWired, Time, Reason, Playboy, and Legal Times
Godwin served as co-counsel to the
plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Reno v. ACLU. EFF was also a plaintiff in that case.
Godwin's first book, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, was published
by Random House/Times Books in the summer of 1998. A revised, updated edition of his book
was published by MIT Press in May of 2003.
Godwin is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law where he served, while still
a law student, as Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Texan, the award-winning University of
Texas student newspaper. Prior to his legal studies, Godwin worked as a journalist and as
a computer consultant. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Texas at
Austin with highest honors, and was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
David Green
Vice President & Counsel, Technology and New Media
Motion Picture Association of America
David E. Green joined the MPAA in the
position of Vice President & Counsel, Technology and New Media, in May 2003. In this
position, he focuses primarily on legal issues related to the Internet and other digital
electronic distribution systems.
Mr. Green joined the MPAA from the U.S.
Department of Justice where he worked for 16 years. He most recently served as the
Principal Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the
Criminal Division, where he helped coordinate the national enforcement of the criminal
laws protecting intellectual property. Prior to that position, Mr. Green prosecuted public
corruption cases as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Criminal Division's Public Integrity
Section. Mr. Green also worked for several years as an associate with the law firm of
Arnold & Porter where he was involved in litigation and in legislative work, including
intellectual property protection.
Mr. Green graduated from Oberlin College
with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the
University of Pennsylvania Law School, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis H.
Pollak in Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Honorable Bruce A. Lehman
Senior Counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld
Chairman, International Intellectual Property Institute
Bruce Lehman is Senior Counsel to Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLOP and Chairman of the International Intellectual
Property Institute (IIPI). Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory Commission to the
Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). From August 1993
through December 1998, Lehman served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and U.S.
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. In 1994, the National Law Journal, the
largest-selling weekly publication for lawyers, named Lehman its "Lawyer of the
Year." In 1997, another publication, the National Journal, a Washington-based
national magazine of public policy, named Lehman one of the 100 most influential men and
women in Washington. Serving as the leader of the U.S. delegation to WIPO's December 1996
Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions, he
successfully concluded negotiations which resulted in the adoption of two treaties: the
WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.
Debbie Rose
Senior Legislative Counsel
Entertainment Software Association
Emery Simon
Counselor to the Policy Council
Business Software Alliance
Mr. Simon is Counselor to the Policy
Council of the BSA. He advises the BSA on a broad range of issues including copyright law,
electronic commerce, trade and encryption. Previously, Mr. Simon was the Executive
Director of the Alliance to Promote Software Innovation, and was the Deputy Assistant USTR
for Intellectual Property at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Mr.
Simon has also worked for the Congressional Budget Office, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the Council on Environmental Quality, and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler.
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