Second Creative Industries in Transition symposium held at The Library of Congress

The second symposium for Creative Industries in Transition: New Directions for the Digital Era was held at the The Library of Congress on Monday, October 27, 2008.

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Event participants (l-r): Ralph Oman, former Register of Copyrights and current Pravel Professorial Lecturer and GW CIEC Fellow; Susan Mann, Senior Director, Intellectual Property Policy, Microsoft Corp.; Maury Yeston, Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist, former Professor and Director of Undergraduate Music Studies, Yale University; Co-Director GW IP Law Program Robert Brauneis; Bhamati Viswanathan, GW CIEC Research Associate; Tanya Sandros, General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office; and Del Bryant, President & CEO, BMI.



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Tony winning Broadway composer Maury Yeston makes an impassioned plea for copyright protection during the panel discussion. From left: Susan Mann, Yeston,Tanya Sandros, Robert Brauneis and Ralph Oman.



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Ralph Oman



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Del Bryant



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Maury Yeston



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Robert Brauneis



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Tanya Sandros



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BMI Vice President, New Media & Strategic Development Richard Conlon, Robert Brauneis, Ralph Oman, Maury Yeston, Tanya Sandros, Del Bryant, BMI Senior VP, Government Relations Fred Cannon; and, seated, Susan O. Mann and Bhamati Viswanathan



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Maury Yeston emphasizes a point while talking with Richard Conlon (l) and Ralph Oman