roundtable: Workshop - Competition in Content Markets - June 16 (fwd)

roundtable: Workshop - Competition in Content Markets - June 16 (fwd)

Workshop - Competition in Content Markets - June 16 (fwd)

James Love (love@Essential.ORG)
Fri, 26 May 1995 16:47:15 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Love <love@Essential.ORG>
To: roundtable <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: Workshop - Competition in Content Markets - June 16 (fwd)
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950526164708.22559X-100000@essential.essential.org>


                        Initial Notice of Workshop
 
                     COMPETITION IN CONTENT MARKETS

                              June 16th, 1995

Location: Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue,
          Washington, DC
Time:          9 am to 12 pm, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Co-sponsors:   Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR)
               Center for Study of Responsive Law/TAP
               Media Access Project
               Center for Media Education
Attendance:    Open and free, but registration is requested (see
               below)

A one day workshop with four panels examining the following
topics:

1.   Leased access to Cable Television Networks
2.   Internet Service Providers--competing with telephone
     companies
3.   Critical Interfaces--Interoperability, Set Top, etc
4.   Common Carriage for Broadband Networks

     The panels will include representatives of large, medium
     and small businesses.  Among the industry panelists (a more
     complete list will be given later) are:

George Spix, Infrastructure and Services Director, Advanced
     Consumer Technology, Microsoft Corporation
Dr. Johns F. Rulifson, Director, Technology Development Group,
     Sun Microsystems (probable)
Rick Dahlgren, Vice President, Cottonwood Enterprises
John Schwartz, founder, the 90s channel
Matt York, Publisher, Video Maker Magazine
Karl Denninger, MCSNet
Joseph Stroup, Net 99

     Among the public interest group panelists or moderators:

Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Media Education
Andy Schwartzman, Executive Director, Media Access Project
James Love, Director of Economic Studies, Center for Study of
     Responsive Law

-----------------------REGISTRATION----------------------------
To attend, please send the following information to Michael Ward
(voice 202/387-8030; fax 202/234-5176 or internet mike@tap.org).

Name:
Affiliation:
Title:
Mailing Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
email:
-------------------------- Hotel -----------------------------
The Embassy Inn, which is located at 1625 16th Avenue, has
agreed to make rooms available at $55 for the workshop.  The
Embassy Inn is a small but charming hotel located a few blocks
from Brookings.  To make reservations, call Jennifer at 202/234-
7800, and mention the Workshop on Competition in Content
Markets.


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James Love, TAP; internet:  love@tap.org
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036; v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176
12 Church Road, Ardmore, PA 19003; v. 610/658-0880; f. 610/649-4066

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