Taking the Initiative on IP Protection: Motion Pictures’ Multi-Front Battle Against Digital Content Piracy
Panelists:
Karyn A. Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel, Motion Picture Association
Jan van Voorn, Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Content Protection, Motion Picture Association and Head of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
Program Description:
This program—the second in WLF’s Taking the Initiative on IP Protection webinar series—delves into the motion picture industry’s comprehensive approach to defending creators’ copyrights worldwide. We will discuss the various facets of this massive undertaking, which includes not only strategic litigation against infringers but also cooperation with domestic and international law enforcement; coordination with other content-creating industries; agreements with internet-economy companies, payment processors, and other businesses; and education. Our panelists will explain the broader implications of this effort for the U.S. economy and the viewing public and will share lessons learned from years of playing both offense and defense against a moving, constantly evolving target.
About the Taking the Initiative on IP Protection Series:
WLF’s Taking the Initiative on IP Protection webinar series features moderated discussions with industry leaders on businesses’ use of strategic litigation, voluntary agreements, and other proactive initiatives to safeguard their intellectual property. The series is premised on two notions. First, the free-enterprise system depends on private-property ownership and the right to enjoy the benefits from contributions to scientific and intellectual advancement. Second, intellectual-property owners cannot rely solely on government-initiated criminal or civil enforcement of intellectual property laws.
Panelists
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Jan van Voorn is Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Content Protection for MPA and Head of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. With more than a decade of intellectual property enforcement experience, Mr. Van Voorn currently heads up the MPA’s global content protection team, working directly with the MPA’s members to define their global enforcement strategy, as well as liaising with the MPA’s branch/partner programs and law enforcement agencies around the world to deploy that strategy. Prior to joining the MPA, Mr. van Voorn had a career in Law Enforcement and led teams specialized in investigating and prosecuting organized and computer crimes.
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Karyn A. Temple is Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Prior to joining MPA, she served more than eight years in the U.S. Copyright Office, most recently as the Register of Copyrights, where she led the 400-person agency and its eight divisions. Ms. Temple also served in policy and litigation roles at the U.S. Department of Justice, most recently serving in the Obama Administration as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Prior to her public service, Ms. Temple was Vice President, Litigation and Legal Affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a litigation associate with Williams & Connolly LLP.
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