Monday Night (Copyright) Fever
The 2009 World Copyright Summit kicks off Monday night with some star power: Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees hosts a cocktail party on the pavilion of the Reagan Building and International Trade Center - where the conference runs through Wednesday. Gibb is not the only cultural icon in D.C. for this week's gathering: Attendees also include filmmaker Milos Forman and artist Frank Stella. But if your taste veers more to policy than foreign films, abstract art or the "Saturday Night Fever"/1970s disco craze, there's plenty of that, too.
The formal part of the conference gets underway Tuesday with a keynote speech by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (who occasionally takes a break from his day job by composing songs), and the Wednesday morning keynoter is Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (one of the Grateful Dead's better known fans). Also on the agenda: House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, who delivers a Wednesday afternoon keynote, and Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property Stan McCoy, who appears Tuesday.
And, if you miss Robin Gibb at Monday's cocktail party, you can catch him at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when he delivers the closing speech of the conference - which is being hosted by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, of which Gibb happens to be president. For further information, contact (202) 778-1305 or go to the summit's Web site. For more details on this week's tech and telecom policy events, visit CongressDaily's TechCentral page here.
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