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DMLA 2017 CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 22 — 24 THE NEW YORKER HOTEL NEW YORK Welcome to the 22nd Annual DMLA Conference at the iconic New Yorker Hotel
The Forum for Connectivity, Advocacy and Education
Thank you for being part of it!
We are pleased to be back in Manhattan and once again, we are teaming up with Visual Connections to make this an even bigger industry event. Both are being held at the New Yorker, with Visual Connections taking place on Wednesday, October 25th immediately following our DMLA Conference.
Again this year, Adobe is our Platinum sponsor. That support is so important to our organization and on behalf of all of us at DMLA, a heartfelt thank you!
The Programme Committee under the leadership of OPHELIA CHONG and our Executive Director, CATHY ARON, have done an outstanding job organizing this year’s programme and assembling an impressive group of speakers to share their views and insights with you.
We begin with our Keynote address by Jason Teichman, CEO of Pond5 and his take on the content paradox we live in - more content being produce and consumed than ever before yet falling budgets and tighter deadlines. Jason will share his views on how the sharing economy and technology are giving birth to a new paradigm in media. As we continue to broaden our relevance beyond photo agencies, a number of the sessions this year focus on motion from the perspective of creators, seller and buyers. We’ve been delighted to work with our sister footage associations, FOCAL and ACSIL on pulling those together.
Thanks to our Silver sponsor, Capture, we will be offering DMLA LIVE DAM where you will be able to upload your photo before the conference, allowing other attendees to put a face to a name to help them find you for meetings or networking opportunities.
It promises to be a busy Conference and hope that you find it both informative and beneficial to your business.
As always, your feedback on things we can do better is most welcome.
Geoff Cannon, DMLA President, 2016-2018 DMLA 2016-2018 OFFICERS, COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND STAFF
President: Geoff Cannon , Masterfile Vice President: Andy Yang, 500px Secretary: Candice Murray, Shutterstock Treasurer: Chris Carey, Minden Pictures Member At Large: Rick Gell Member At Large: Leslie Hughes, VisualSteam Member At Large: Nuno Silva, Stocksy Member At Large: Julie Sloane, Science Source Images Immediate Past President: Sarah Fix, Blend Image COMMITTEE CHAIRS Ethics and Grievances: John Rutter, National Geographic Stock Finance: Ron Harvey, Everett Collection Legal: James Oh, Adobe Membership: Daniel Russelman, Universal Images Group Nominations & Elections: Sonia Wasco, Grant Heilman Photography Program: Ophelia Chong, Stock Pot Images
STAFF Executive Director: Cathy Aron DMLA Counsel: Nancy Wolff, Esq., Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLC Technology Advisor: Doug Dawirs
This Conference could not be possible with out the outstanding work from the Conference Committee. A Special Thanks to each and every one of them:
Ophelia Chong, Chairperson, Stock Pot Images Rick Gell, DMLA Board Paul Melcher, Melcher Systems James Oh, Adobe Andrew Rowat, Haystack Julie Sloane, Science Source Sonia Wasco, Grant Heilman Photography
STAFF: Cathy Aron, DMLA Executive Director Doug Dawirs, DMLA Technical Advisor DMLA RECOGNIZES OUR SPONSORS FOR THEIR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF OUR ASSOCIATION:
20/20 Software A leading provider of websites and DAM enterprise software to picture libraries, museums, publishers and photographers worldwide. www.twensoft.com
Agency Access A full service marketing company for stock agencies, professional photographers, illustrators and artist reps www.agencyaccess.com
Booking.com Part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodations online.
Capture Ltd The leading developer of fully integrated image management systems in the UK. They provide a total business solution to meet the needs of traditional picture libraries as well as the diverse, rapidly changing needs of today’s media. www.capture.co.uk
Haystack Haystack is kayak.com for licensing imagery. We bring high quality stock sites under a unified visual search umbrella. https://haystack.im
ImageProtect ImageProtect protects and monetizes creative works. Our web application monitors the global Internet to seek and collect evidence for illegally used visual content. www.cleararts.com
ImageRights International ImageRights International is spearheading the global fight against the infringement of copyrighted visual works by visual artists. imagerights.com
Microstocksolutions Microstocksolutions LLC is the leading provider of DAM agnostic still & motion review/ curation, large content ingestion (LCI), keywording, and asset management. www.microstocksolutions.com
Schneider Rothman IP Law Group SRIPLAW represents creators in litigation nationwide. We help artists and authors monetize their intellectual property and accept alternative fee arrangements. sriplaw.com
SmartFrame A patent-pending, secure, embeddable, trackable and interactive digital image format that seeks to redefine the digital image standard. smartframe.io
Visual Connections LLC Offers a portfolio of successful and affordable marketing services, uniquely focused on the business of licensing visual media. www.visualconnections.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 — THE NEW YORKER HOTEL, 481 8TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10001
7:00 PM DMLA OPENING NETWORKING RECEPTION Sponsored by: ADOBE Crystal Ballroom & Mezzanine
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 — THE NEW YORKER HOTEL, 481 8TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10001 NETWORKING BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Grand Ballroom
8:30 AM to EXHIBITS AND MEETING AREA 5:30 PM Mezzanine
9:00 AM WELCOMING MESSAGE » Presenter Crystal Geoff Cannon, DMLA President Ballroom
» Presenter 9:30 AM THE AGE OF THE CONTENT PARADOX: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING Jason Teichman, CEO of Pond5 Crystal MEDIA CREATION Ballroom We live in the age of a content paradox. Content has never been produced and consumed at such a rapid rate in history, and yet, despite the massive increase in demand, budgets are falling rapidly, deadlines are being crunched, and people are being forced to find new and more efficient ways of working. Join Pond5 CEO Jason Teichman as he delves into how the sharing economy is helping to solve this problem, while exploring how new advances in technology — both software and hardware-based — are democratizing content creation, providing new solutions for artists and businesses alike, and giving birth to a new paradigm in media.
» Presenter 10:45 AM DMLA TALK: INTRODUCING POINT OF MEDIA Markus Bauer, Point of Media Crystal Markus Bauer, Managing Director of point-of-media.com GmbH, introduces Ballroom an all-new platform for professional creators. point-of-media.com simplifies and shortens the path between professional media producers and users in a world where the importance of communicating visual content has grown enormously for the global economy. Markus talks about this new markets for media licensing, which will be highly attractive, but also competitive and innovative pressure will increase extremely.
11:00 AM PRICES: CAN WE RAISE THEM? » Moderator Crystal Stock photo prices have been declining for years, partially due to oversupply. Jim Pickerell, Selling Stock Ballroom Must prices continue to fall? Is there a strategy for charging more to enough » Panelists customers that production of new images will become a viable business Scott Mc Kiernan, ZUMA Press/ option for more producers? If so, how? What’s the strategy? If not, will that DOUBLEtruck impact contributor supply? What alternatives are there for agencies to grow Tomas Speight, Panther Media their business? T.J. Leonard, VideoBlocks José Azel, Aurora Photos Sponsored by:
NETWORKING LUNCH 12:15 AM - 2:00 PM Grand Ballroom
2:00 PM NEWS FROM THE EDITORIAL MARKET » Moderator Crystal While the big stock photo agencies are battling for the bigger piece of the pie, Paul Melcher, Melcher System Ballroom a flurry of smaller startups have recently entered the editorial market. Does » Panelists this mean there is a revival or are they battling for sparse leftovers? And, what Jonathan Wells, SIPA USA does it mean for the stock photo industry in general? Is editorial the next big Tom Tramborg, The Mega Agency market? Ben Pfeifer, Shutterstock Gary Hershorn, Fox News 3:15 PM POST-USAGE LICENSING / FOUND MONEY »» Moderator Crystal Copyright infringement costs you and your contributors money. Education Doug Dawirs, DMLA Ballroom alone doesn’t work and copyright law isn’t a law if it’s not enforced. Come »» Panelists learn more about the discovery, assessment, recovery and copyright Jonathan Thomas, ImageProtect registration process and what’s to be gained (and lost) in the world of post- Marcus Schmitt, COPYTRACK usage licensing. Hear from industry experts from the USA and Europe along Joe Naylor, ImageRights with legal counsel who specializes in the field. Mathew Higbee, Higbee & Associates
4:30 PM DMLA TALK: THE ART OF THE CINEMAGRAPH »» Presenter Crystal Capturing and holding the limited attention spans of audiences is Mark Homza, Flixel Ballroom difficult today. It takes truly unique, vivid, and mesmerizing content to extend a brand’s reach and storytelling to online audiences. Learn how to conceptualize, produce and distribute cinemagraphs in today’s digital-centric world with best in class examples and insights into performance driven creative.
4:45 PM MOTION CREATORS AND SELLERS – YOU HAVE A MOVING IMAGE »» Moderator Crystal COLLECTION; WHAT IS YOUR LICENSING STRATEGY? Matt White, ACSIL Ballroom Do you go exclusive, have multiple licensing agents, set up your own site, »» Panelists or all of the above? Besides revenue split, what factors drive your licensing Rick Ray, DVArchive agent choices? Marketing effort? Ease of uploading? Alison Smith, WGBH Media Library John Schlauch, Tribune Sponsored by: Broadcasting Ted Mendelsohn, Associated Press
6:00 PM to COCKTAIL RECEPTION 7:00 PM Crystal Sponsored by: Ballroom & Mezzanine
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 — THE NEW YORKER HOTEL, 481 8TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10001 NETWORKING BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Grand Ballroom
8:30 AM to EXHIBITS AND MEETING AREA 5:30 PM Mezzanine
8:45 AM GROWTH HACKING: JUMP-STARTING CUSTOMER ACQUISITION AND »» Presenter Crystal RETENTION Chris Franco, Woodridge Growth Ballroom Chris helped run user acquisition at Jet.com and Fanduel, and helps get apps in the top 10 on the App Store. Here he shares best practices for discovering new customers, keeping existing ones happy, and generally pointing growth to the top right corner. 9:30 AM THE FUTURE OF CONTENT CREATION AND CONSUMPTION »» Presenter Crystal Scott Braut is the Head of Content at Adobe, where he leads the acquisition Scott Braut, Adobe Ballroom of content across photos, vectors, videos, and other creative assets, and drives the overall content strategy and operations for Adobe’s Creative Cloud business. Scott is a well-known leader in the content space, with over 20 years of experience in content licensing, product development, eCommerce, and digital media.
Join Scott as he shares his industry insights on the technological, cultural, and society shifts that have given rise to the revolution of content, and how Adobe has embraced these changes with technological advancements, new product offerings, and meaningful partnerships. Scott will also showcase the latest innovations from Adobe designed to help content creators and consumers keep up with the demands of the ever-changing stocky and media industries.
10:15 AM BREAKING THE FRAME: THE FORMAT REVOLUTION »» Moderator Crystal While 2D images still dominate the marketplace, they are being challenged by Dennis Radeke, Adobe Ballroom new formats (3D, VR, 360°, panoramic, cinemagraph, GIFs). Expert panelists »» Panelists will discuss which ones, if any, will take over, how and why. Tawnya Crawford, Getty Images Joseph Panker, Come Alive Images Sponsored by: Michelle Novak, Panoramic Images
11:30 AM LEGAL PANEL: LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS YOU NEED TO KNOW »» Moderator Crystal A panel of attorneys with expertise in the content licensing field will present James Oh, Adobe Ballroom on developments in the law and best practices tips to help you navigate »» Panelists content licensing, avoid pitfalls, and become more effective. Nancy Wolff, DMLA Counsel Margaret Vincent, Stocksy Lisa Willmer, Getty/iStock Will Clark, Shutterstock
NETWORKING LUNCH 12:15 AM - 2:00 PM Grand Ballroom
2:00 PM THE FUTURE OF FOOD »» Moderator Crystal Do trends start on social media or do they start by marketers? On a daily Andrew Rowat, Haystack Ballroom basis there are over 160M images of food posted on Instagram by amateurs »» Panelists posting near pro quality images, and branders are re-posting these images Elizabeth Jaime, Bon Appétit for credit only, saving them money and time from having to create their own Danny Bowien, Mission Chinese content. With only a few seconds to grab a follower’s attention, how do we Food create images that will be on trend for licensing with the competition of Warren Bobrow, Mixologist, Chef, millions of images in social media? Our panel will talk about their views and & Writer predictions on food and beverage trends which will give attendees a glance Andrew Scrivani, Photographer, into what will be trending on social media in the future. Food Stylist
»» Presenter 3:15 PM DMLA TALK: WHY SHOULD WE EXPLORE DIVERSITY? Josiane Faubert, PICHA Josiane will discuss diversity and why we should push for more diversity Crystal images. Ballroom 3:30 PM MOTION BUYERS – YOU NEED MOVING IMAGES FOR A PRODUCTION, »» Moderator Crystal WHAT CRITERIA DRIVE YOUR LIBRARY SOURCING? Mary Egan, MOCA/FOCAL Int Ballroom Is it the depth and breadth of collection, ease of search and quality of »» Panelists metadata, pricing, subscription models, bulk deals, Indemnification and rights Bobby Dicks, CNN Collection protections, a sales person to talk to? Cristina Lombardo, Vice Media Avery Fox, Vice Media Sponsored by: Rosemary Rotondi, Independent Researcher
4:45 PM YOUNG GUNS II »» Moderator Crystal Images in the Age of the 45th: As we move towards an audience that judges Ophelia Chong, Stock Pot Images Ballroom within seconds on whether to engage or swipe left, we as image makers need »» Panelists to rethink how we gain and retain viewers. How does the group who will be Joshua Kissi, Street Etiquette most affected by decisions made in the next four years see the world in their Joseph Lombardo, Curated Artists choice of imagery? Jessica Pettway, Photographer Philip Edsel, Photographer
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 — THE NEW YORKER HOTEL, 481 8TH AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10001
10:00 AM VISUAL CONNECTIONS EXPO www.visualconnections.com/newyork For Visual Connections exhibitors only
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PLATINUM SPONSOR
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2017 DMLA CONFERENCE SPONSORS
® 2017 SPEAKERS
José Azel President & Founder, Aurora Photos
The experience of world travel and storytelling for international magazines such as TIME and National Geographic creates the foundation of José Azel’s visual experience. Together with Jose’s academic education, Cornell University, BA English and the University of Missouri, MA Journalism, and his business background, founding and helping lead two photographic company for over two decades, Aurora Photos and Novus Select, augments his knowledge. “For many years I have meet the challenges of global b2b relationships,” says José, “Marketing and sales, software design and implementation, photographer sourcing and management, content production and editing, have all taught me that I have more to learn. Passion about what I do drives everything, including a passion for the outdoors in general and tennis specifically.”
Markus Bauer Managing Director, point-of-media.com GmbH
Markus Bauer is Managing Director of point-of-media.com GmbH in Munich. From his earliest childhood, Markus is fascinated by computers and artificial intelligence. During his studies at the Technical University of Munich and in positions of responsibility, he continued to deepen this passion in many areas, such as micro-services, scalable cloud architectures and deep learning. As Technical Lead, he now designs the overall technological concept of point-of-media.com. His drive is to create perfect software solutions with each bit optimized. His basic approach is that modern web applications must uncompromisingly focus on user experience while realizing unique value propositions.
Warren Bobrow Author/bar man, former chef/saucier and creative mixologist
Warren has written five books: Apothecary Cocktails, Whiskey Cocktails and Bitters/Shrub Syrup Cocktails. Cannabis Cocktails and the Craft Cocktail Compendium. His first book, Apothecary Cocktails was nominated for a Spirited Award at the 2014 Tales of the Cocktail, held in New Orleans.
Warren has been a dishwasher, a bar back and a cook. He cooked professionally after a failed career in television, in Portland, Me., Charleston, Sc., Scottsdale, Az., New Hope, Pa.
Warren founded, owned and lost his fresh pasta manufacturing company located in Charleston, SC., 1989- Hurricane Hugo.
Warren’s myriad of accomplishments include stints as a Ministry of Rum judge, Miami Rum XP judge, American Distilling Institute Member, he appeared in the Saveur 100, Oxford Encyclopedia/Savoring Gotham, The Sage Encyclopedia of Food, Whole Food/Dark Rye, Liquor.com, Leite’s Culinaria, and has done tasting notes and recipes for Caledonia Spirits and Barrell Bourbon. He taught a Master Class on rum at the Moscow Bar Show, taught at Stonewall Kitchen in Maine, attended the Fetes Gastronomie in Burgundy, traveled to Abruzzo in Italy to cover their fine wine scene. Warren is working as a journalist for Forbes.com in their online space. Danny Bowien Chef and Co-founder of Mission Chinese Food
Danny Bowien is the chef and co-founder of the Mission Chinese Food restaurants in New York and San Francisco. At MCF, Danny has created a uniquely American cuisine that draws on his broad and diverse range of experience: from his upbringing in Oklahoma City, to his formal culinary education and background in fine dining, to his work as a sushi chef, to the time he won the world pesto championship in Genoa without knowing he was being entered in the competition.
Danny was part of the team behind one of America’s earliest pop-ups, Mission Street Food, which not only pushed the country’s culinary conversation forward, but also made philanthropy part of its core business. The San Francisco location of Mission Chinese continues to donate a significant portion of its sales to the San Francisco Food Bank and ZeroFoodprint, so far raising enough money to provide one million meals for the hungry and completely offset the restaurant’s carbon emissions. With an intrepid approach to both food and business, Danny and his partner, Anthony Myint, have built Mission Chinese Food into two of the country’s most recognizable and well-regarded restaurants.
Scott Braut Head of Content, Digital Media at Adobe
Scott Braut is Head of Content at Adobe, where he drives the overall content strategy and operations for Adobe’s Creative Cloud business. Scott is a well-known leader in the content space and most recently served as Vice President of Content for Shutterstock. He has over 20 years of experience in content licensing, product development, eCommerce, and digital media. He previously served as National Desk Supervisor for The Associated Press, Senior Product Manager at ABCNEWS.com, and Senior Director of Products at Digital Railroad.
Scott now leads Adobe as they acquire content through various partnerships and business development. He is responsible for growing Adobe’s collection of photos, illustrations, video and other creative assets, while supporting the community of providers of that content.
Geoff Cannon Executive Vice President, Masterfile
With over 35 years of experience in publishing creative services, international sales and marketing management, Geoff joined Masterfile in 2001 as Executive Vice President. He directs sales for North America and business development as well as managing international affiliations. Geoff is also the current President of DMLA. Ophelia Chong Founder of Stock Pot Images
Ophelia Chong is the founder of Stock Pot Images and Asian Americans for Cannabis Education (AACE). She is driven to help shape the new conversation of Cannabis and is guided by one mission: to advocate for the legalization of cannabis and offer truthful reflections of the faces and communities that embrace cannabis.
As well as StockPot Images, Ophelia is the Creative Consultant at PUSH Magazine the target audience is millennial women in cannabis. She is also the Community Outreach liaison for THC Design, one of the top premium cannabis growers in CA, she is responsible for LGBT, Veterans, Women, Minorities and Disabled outreach.
As an artist, her work has been published by Harper Collins, Gestalten (3 books) and other major publishers of books and magazines. Her latest collage work was commissioned by Simon & Schuster and will debut in the Fall of 2017.
Her career path has been formed by her 2 decades in photography, as a creative director in publishing, published artist and gallerist, entertainment and as an adjunct professor in education at Art Center College of Design; her path is non-ending because she believes that we all have at least five careers in our lifetimes.
Will Clark Assistant General Counsel for Licensing, Shutterstock
Will Clark is Assistant General Counsel - Licensing at Shutterstock, Inc., where he is the senior legal stakeholder participating in the ongoing evolution of Shutterstock’s commercial products, including Shutterstock’s core content license agreements, customized enterprise agreements, and the ongoing integration of new products and services developed and/or acquired by Shutterstock. He also supports Shutterstock’s business and corporate development teams, providing counsel on prospective strategic transactions and partnerships, and supporting the resulting negotiations. He has been at Shutterstock since 2010 and witnessed firsthand the evolution and maturation of the stock content space.
Tawnya Crawford Senior Director, Strategic Development at Getty Images
Tawnya Crawford is Senior Director, Strategic Development at Getty Images, where she heads up a cross- functional team launching new products and building new revenue streams. In this role, Tawnya has been an integral part in bringing innovative formats to their customers, including 360 video and VR. She’s passionate about great content and storytelling in all forms.
Doug Dawirs Software Designer
Doug Dawirs has over 30 years experience as a software designer, technical program manager, and digital asset management specialist. He was the original developer of the award-winning application Extensis Portfolio and original architect of several photo-centric sites including panoramicimages.com, workbookstock.com, and eyeist.com (an online portfolio review service).
Doug is technical advisor to the Digital Media Licensing Association (DMLA), developer of DMLAsearch (a mega meta-search engine for licensable imagery), and developer of the PLUS Registry for the PLUS Coalition. He is the recipient of two MacWorld Magazine World-Class Awards, MacUser Editors’ Choice Award (Eddy) and MacWorld Editors’ Choice Award. Bobby Dicks Sr. Director of Sales & Licensing, CNN Collection
Bobby Dicks specializes in helping fiction and non-fiction storytellers — in every medium — establish and frame their narrative with current and archival footage from the biggest and smallest global and local news coverage. Bobby’s specialty: creative collaboration, oftentimes embedded in the ideation and story- development stages of a production, helping shape what consumers ultimately see — from the mobile phone to the silver screen.
Bobby has worked on award-winning projects including two ‘Best Documentary Feature’ Academy Award Oscar® winners O.J.: Made in America and Citizenfour. Dicks earned a nomination for the ‘CNN Collection’ at the 2015 FOCAL International Awards in the ‘Footage Library of the Year’ for his contribution to Citizen four.
As a veteran licensor, Bobby Dicks’ clients include major and independent film and multimedia production companies on every continent. ‘CNN Collection’ footage can often be seen in feature films, television shows, museums, educational materials, music videos, advertising commercials, and other public outlets.
Philip Edsel Fitness and Fashion Photographer
A professional fitness and fashion photographer, chart-topping musician, author of the first-ever Instagram novel, Philip Edsel creates dynamic imagery and motion work based on potential energy. His work is inspired by classical art, modern design, vibrant colors, hard shadows, and sentimental memory. His drink is a gimlet.
Mary Egan The MOCA / FOCAL International
In 2013 Mary ventured into the world of freelancing starting MBE Media and is one of the founding partners of The MOCA, a visual content and licensing consultancy company. Working within the creative industry she delivers advice and expertise on all aspects of media copyright, business development, sponsorship, sales and brand extension. Alongside her freelance work she is the co-General Manager for FOCAL International since November 2016, working closely with FOCAL members to protect, celebrate and champion the use of archival footage across all forms of creative media platforms.
Prior to 2013 Mary worked at Press Association Images as Sales & Marketing Director responsible for worldwide distribution; BBC Worldwide Canada Ltd, as VP of Sales managing BBC and Discovery Communications Inc., activities within the Canadian market as well as Business Director at BBC Lionheart Television Inc., USA based in New York setting up their contracts and clearances division. Mary has been an executive board member of British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) and took an active role within their Lobbying Working Group and continues to work with them securing sponsorship and new members.
Josiane Faubert Founder of PICHA
Josiane Faubert is the founder of PICHA, a RF stock photo library specialized in Africa. After a career as a freelance photographer and social media manager, she started PICHA in 2014 because she felt the need for better representation of Africa.
As an international citizen (from Gabon and France) living now in Seattle, WA, she started PICHA with her own collection and now we have a growing community of contributors from South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Morocco. Avery Fox Head of Archival, VICE Media, USA
Avery Fox has eight years of experience working in archival research and licensing for a variety of documentary television, digital, branded and film productions. Avery started his career working on historical dramas such as The World Wars and The Making of the Mob. Currently he oversees the archival department for VICE Media where the focus is on current events and human rights programming. Avery is responsible for hiring and managing the team of researchers and producers who work on projects spanning the entire company. He specializes in procuring large-scale media buys from vendors as well as sourcing unique content from individual copyright holders to meet the creative needs of production.
Chris Franco CEO, Woodridge Growth
Chris Franco is CEO of Woodridge Growth, a privately-held marketing agency based in New York City that helps drive growth for Jet.com, FanDuel, Clarity Money, SurveyMonkey, Rhone, NBA Digital, and more.
Gary Hershorn Photo Editor, Fox News
Gary Hershorn began his career with United Press International in 1979 in Toronto, Canada. He started working with Reuters in 1985 as Chief Photographer, Canada when Reuters purchased the foreign service of UPI. During his 29-year career with Reuters, he worked as a photographer in Toronto, Senior Photographer in Washington, DC, Picture Editor-Americas and Global Sports Pictures Editor.
As a photographer, Hershorn has covered 17 Olympic Games, 24 Masters Golf tournaments, 24 Academy Awards, Super Bowls, World Series, Stanley Cups and World Cups. After leaving Reuters in 2014 he worked for the app Flipboard and presently is the Photo Editor for Fox News Channel in NYC and a contributing photographer to Getty Images.
Mathew Higbee Founder of The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates
Mathew Higbee is the founder of The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates. Higbee & Associates is a national law firm with nearly one hundred employees and offices all over the country. Each year Higbee & Associates recovers millions of dollars in lost revenue for photographers through its copyright enforcement division. Higbee & Associates was listed as one of the fastest growing companies in the US by Inc Magazine in 2012. They were listed by Lex Machina as one of the top-100 most active copyright litigation firms in 2016.
Mathew Higbee is a graduate of the University of Utah’s College of Law. He has litigated hundreds of cases and has several published appellate victories. He is a southern California native. His passion for copyright law and photography is largely attributable to his mother who was a public school art teacher and his father who is an art dealer. Mark Homza Co-Founder, Flixel
Mark Homza is an award-winning creative and startup entrepreneur. In 2011, he co-founded Flixel - a Toronto- based company that makes tools for visual storytelling. Mark supported the development and launch of Cinemagraph Pro for macOS and iOS, the world’s most popular software platform for creating and sharing the magic of cinemagraphs. In 2014, Flixel was honoured with an Apple Design Award and Best of 2014 in the App Store. They count Tyra Banks, creator of America’s Next Top Model, as one of their investors.
Mark now leads Flixel Studios, the company’s in-house production arm based in New York. Focused on cinemagraphs and micro-video content, Mark has produced digital campaigns for the likes of HBO, Mashable, A&E, Facebook, Instagram, Panasonic, Lincoln, Toyota, Mercedes, The United Nations, and more.
In 2014, Flixel was chosen as Digital Company of the Year at Canada’s Digi Awards. In 2016, Flixel won the top prize at Montreal’s International Startup Festival.
Elizabeth Jaime Photo Editor, bon appetit
By day, Elizabeth Jaime is the photo editor in the award winning photo department at bon appetit magazine. There Elizabeth produces, conceptualizes and art directs photoshoots for the magazine and website. Before that, Elizabeth spent time at Teen Vogue, Brides and Fashionista.com. Born and raised in Miami, Elizabeth enjoys warm weather, traveling and really salty french fries.
Joshua Kissi Photographer and Co-founder of TONL
Joshua Kissi is a Ghanaian-American photographer & creative entrepreneur based in New York City with over 10 years of experience. After co-founding creative agency Street Etiquette which contains a strong trait for storytelling, branding, and marketing through visuals on the web. He has had the pleasure of working with powerful companies such as Apple, Adidas, GQ. Mr. Kissi has recently co-founded a culturally diverse photo stock called TONL which changes the narrative and aesthetic of the stock photography industry. Joshua became no stranger to the realization that the idea of representation in the digital landscape is still a creative challenge to pursue.
TJ Leonard CEO, VideoBlocks
TJ is the CEO at VideoBlocks, where he has been working since 2013 to bring high quality, affordable stock media to the creative community. VideoBlocks now supports more than 300,000 creatives through its unique membership model, and in 2015 launched its revolutionary video Marketplace which pays contributors 100% commission. In support of its mission to help all artists find more ways to earn, it launched an image Marketplace this past September, which also returns 100% of sales back to the artists.
Prior to joining VideoBlocks, TJ led the marketing teams at BabbaCo, a subscription service offering creative, educational products for parents and toddlers, and Vlingo, Android’s first voice-enabled mobile virtual assistant. He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife, two kids, dog, two cats, and the occasional fish. Cristina Lombardo Head of Rights and Clearances, Vice Media UK
Cristina Lombardo (LL.M.) is a leading rights and licensing consultant. She has worked with broadcasters, museums, publishers and service providers to streamline copyright licensing processes in the creative sector. At Vice Media, Cristina heads up Rights and Clearances and Archive for EMEA, leads negotiations with archive vendors for the EMEA territories and routinely trains teams on archive, licensing, copyright and related rights in eleven European Countries, Australia, New Zealand and Sub-Saharan Africa
Joe Lombardo Artist Representative
My name is Joe Lombardo. I am an artist representative/agent of 20 years experience. I’ve seen a lot. I’ve done what I could do to be in the industry and help make it a better place to market, to advise others, to help my clients achieve their goals and my artists win new business. I’ve helped people “to look good” “to get hired” “to elevate” “to inspire” for almost my entire working career. I’ve worked on big campaigns and everything in between, global print campaigns, to digital film shorts, from fashion and beauty to pharma.
I started when I was 25 when I moved to NYC and I haven’t stopped trying to serve my photo community ever since. I’ve cleaned the garbage cans to gain experience as a representative and producer and dined at very expensive dinners with clients after the job was done. I’ve opened and closed photography businesses and opened again. I’ve even danced on a few tabletops with creatives until the wee hours of the morning. In short, I’ve worked hard, I’ve played hard, I’ve been up, down and sideways trying to find answers every year as the business of photography has changed, and understood that every year we needed to change with it.
Scott Mc Kiernan Owner, ZUMA Press/DOUBLEtruck
Agent/Artist/Designer/Educator/Entrepreneur/Father/Philanthropist/Photojournalist/Picture Editor/Publish- er/Technologist/Visualist
Scott Mc Kiernan is a media industry leader. Mc Kiernan’s dynamic leadership of the ZUMA Press family of companies, as well as decades of wide-ranging experience in photojournalism have proven to be instrumental in establishing one of the largest editorial photo news agencies in the world and the first digital age picture agency: ZUMA Wire.
Mc Kiernan as a Web pioneer in 1993 launched the net’s first database for editorial pictures. Quarter century latter, ZUMA Wire Service is the agent to the world’s most respected photojournalists, newspapers, magazines, agencies and wire services. Running a global staff, which, as an end product, has the world’s largest online editorial picture archive with over 42 million images online and growing daily by 21K images from last 24 hours.
Between Mc Kiernan’s design work, picture editing and photojournalism, and collaboration with ZUMA’s stellar photojournalists, they have won together, many major awards for photography, editing and design, including: Best of Photojournalism (NPPA’s BoP), Communications Arts, Pictures of The Year (POYi), Webby Awards, World Press Awards and a few Pulitzers. Proud winner of 2016 Jim Gordon Award: Editor of The Year. Paul Melcher Strategic Consultant
Paul Melcher brings more than 20 years of experience in photo licensing, technology breakthrough and leadership roles for world-renowned photography companies. He was named by American Photo as one of the “100 most influential individuals in American photography.”
Mr. Melcher is currently a strategic consultant for visual tech startups, an advisor, and the founder of Kaptur Magazine, the first online publication solely devoted to the visual tech industry.
Mr. Melcher has held top executive positions at companies such as Stipple, Rex Features, Digital Railroad, Corbis, ImageDirect, Zymmetrical and PictureGroup
Ted Mendelsohn VP of Commercial and Digital Markets, Associate Press
Ted is Vice President of Commercial and Digital Markets at the Associate Press. He is responsible for expanding into the world of interactive media by identifying new markets and revenue opportunities.
His key achievements at AP include:
• Structured P&L for introduction and launch of AP Financial News service. • Established pricing and royalty structure for AP content. • Manage relationships with AP Digital’s largest clients, including AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Lexis-Nexis, Dialog and Factiva.
Joe Naylor President & CEO, ImageRights International
Joe’s career spans more than twenty years in the design, development, operations, sales, and marketing of communications and internet-based services at eFax.com, j2 Global Communications, and WebMessenger. In 2007, Joe began collaborating with professional photographer Ted VanCleave on solutions to the challenges that commercial photographers, photo agencies and media companies face with respect to online copyright protection; and in 2008 the two founded ImageRights International, Inc.
To date, ImageRights has processed more than 50,000 copyright infringement claims, registered more than 600,000 images with the US Copyright Office and collected more than $7 million for its agencies and photographers. Joe holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and has served on the Digital Media Licensing Associations’ (formerly PACA) International Committee. Michelle Alvarado Novak Director of Photography, Panoramic Images
Michelle joined Panoramic Images in 2004. Previously, she was the Content Manager for the Image Bank, Chicago -which is now part of Getty Images. She began her career researching and editing images for Outside Magazine.
Every day, she uses her 25 years of experience in photography, commercial printing, design, and marketing. Michelle holds degrees from both the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), which is probably why she loves working with the technically challenging panoramic format. Currently she is working to launch one of the most advanced stock photography Websites on the planet for Panoramic Images with a team of international developers and designers. Michelle was a contributor to the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guide (UPDIG) and was previously a member of the ASPP Midwest Board.
James Oh Vice President, Lead Counsel, Adobe Systems Incorporated
James Oh is lead counsel for the legal teams that support Adobe’s Digital Media Business Unit, Print and Publishing Business Unit, and several functional groups. His team provides legal counsel for many products including, Creative Cloud, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Document Cloud, Adobe Sign (formerly Adobe EchoSign), Adobe Stock, Fotolia, Spark, Captivate, eLearning Suite, Technical Communication Suite, and eBooks to name a few. He manages a team with members in many places, including San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Germany, India, and Romania.
Joe Panker Co-founder, Come Alive Images
Co-founder of Come Alive Images, a Stock Gif Agency licensing Gifs & Cinemagraphs (moving images) as stock, and creating custom moving images for brands on assignment.
Prior to forming Come Alive Images, Joe was principal founder of digital agency Jellyfish Advertising, and served in Marketing and Business Development rolls at Piazza Advertising, Operand and Carat NA.
Jessica Pettway Photographer Jessica Pettway is a New York based photographer and grilled cheese enthusiast. With a unique eye for color and playful compositions Jessica creates surreal arrangements that that serve as a relaxing escape from everyday life. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and her work has been published by VICE, Businessweek, New York Times Magazine and TIME among others. Ben Pfeifer SVP Editorial, Shutterstock
Ben joined Shutterstock in 2011 and is SVP, Editorial at Shutterstock. Previously, he served as the SVP of Business Development, leading business strategy across multiple business units. Since joining Shutterstock Ben focused on building out emerging business units including footage and Bigstock, and most recently led the development of editorial through Shutterstock’s acquisition of Rex Features and content partnerships with PMC, BFA and AP.
Prior to joining Shutterstock, Ben worked in Hong Kong and Bangkok as an investment banker and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Ben received his MBA from INSEAD in France.
Jim Pickerell Editor and publisher, Selling-Stock.com
Jim Pickerell is editor and publisher of Selling-Stock.com, an online newsletter about the stock photography business. New stories are published almost daily. A bi-monthly print edition was first published in 1990 and became available online in 1995. Jim entered the photography business in 1963 as an assignment photogra- pher, but almost immediately started selling some of his work as stock and has been doing so ever since. In 1989 he published the first of five editions of Negotiating Stock Photo Prices, a guide to pricing stock photo uses. The 5th edition came out in 2001. In 1993 Jim and his daughter, Cheryl DiFrank, established Stock Con- nection, an agency that licenses the work of about 400 photographers.
Dennis Radeke Content Development Manager for Motion, Adobe Stock
Dennis Radeke is the Content Development Manager for Motion at Adobe Stock. He oversees Adobe’s acqui- sition strategy for motion content, developing key partnerships and relationships. He is a 12-year veteran of Adobe, with extensive experience working with broadcasters, large media and entertainment companies as well as sports federations.
Rick Ray President and CEO, dvarchive
Rick Ray is the President and CEO of two stock footage libraries, dvarchive.com and retrofootage.org. He is also a filmmaker best known for his 2006 documentary “10 Questions For The Dalai Lama”. He travels the world gathering footage for his stock libraries and also licenses his work through multiple stock archives worldwide.
Andrew Rowat Founder of Haystack
Andrew Rowat is a Toronto-based photographer and one of the two founders of Haystack. Photo-wise he mainly shoots travel features, which is just another way of saying he is a jack-of-all-trades. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit and his high school newsletter. Haystack is a stock photography search engine that brings together dozens of different premium stock providers in the same way that Kayak brings hotels and airlines under a single search umbrella. Haystack enables photo buyers to search from a single portal in lieu of having a forest of browser tabs open. PDN called Haystack the ‘Google Images of the Stock Photography world’. Rosemary Rotondi Archival film, photo, headlines and network news researcher
Rosemary Rotondi is an archival film, photo, headlines and network news researcher. Highlights of her work as a network news researcher include Laura Poitras’ Academy Award winning CITIZENFOUR and her latest documentary entitled RISK, currently playing nationwide on HBO. She also worked recently on BEFORE THE FLOOD by Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival then later on National Geographic Channel.
Rosemary also worked as a photo, text and network news researcher on Charles Ferguson’s production INSIDE JOB, Academy Award Winner 2011. Other work included lead researcher on Matt Wolf’s films: TEENAGE (2014) which was nominated in 2015 by FOCAL (Federation of Commercial AudioVisual Libraries) for “Best Use of Archival Film in a Cinema Release plus IT’S ME HILARY: THE MAN WHO DREW ELOISE (2015); Penny Lane’s documentary film, OUR NIXON, (2013) and Albert Maysles penultimate documentary IRIS (2015) about Iris Apfel.
In addition to the above Rosemary worked as researcher for the American Museum of Natural History 2014- 2015, performing photo, footage and licensing work on four exhibitions in one single year. Her full credits list is available at: www.archivalfilmresearch.com
John Schlauch Content and product leader
John Schlauch is a content and product leader who helps media companies optimally monetize their digital content. After spending nearly a decade as an editor and technology leader for a large documentary production company, successfully overcoming many of the unique and evolving challenges production companies have faced, including the transitions to nonlinear online editing, large-scale shared production workflows, high definition production, tapeless workflow, and 3D and 4K production, John caught the startup bug.
Next, John joined a startup two-year digital media arts college, leading the establishment of the core technology infrastructure and digital video workflows for the curriculum as the school scaled from 120 students to over 500.
At Tribune Broadcasting, John’s roles have included optimization of ad tech vendors, generating programmatic ad revenue from 42 local television websites and spearheading the business intelligence and analytics platform in use by over 200 digital sales and news editorial employees.
Currently, John is expanding the reach and monetization of Tribune stations’ daily news video and troves of deep archives through syndication and licensing partnerships. John holds a BA from Columbia College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Marcus Schmitt CEO of COPYTRACK
Marcus Schmitt, CEO of COPYTRACK, is a serial entrepreneur and executive manager with more than 20 years of experience in founding, scaling and management of SMEs and enterprises in an international environment (EU, USA, Asia). Marcus spent three years as Vice President for the European Market at an international consultancy and many years as a consultant for internationalization.
COPYTRACK operates worldwide in 140 countries and 12 languages, the use of their platform is free and even allows a unlimited image upload.
COPYTRACK is the fair online platform for publishers, photographers, image agencies, and e-commerce vendors. It stands for a just and fair management of intellectual property on the internet. Images get stolen countless times every day by being copied and distributed illegally. The creators have an enormous financial disadvantage because of that. Copyright infringements are difficult to pursue and considered a trivial offense. In addition to the time required detecting an infringement and to take actions against it, there always remains a legal risk.
COPYTRACK provides a tool to risk-free and comfortably assert their demands. We offer our service free of charge and even bear the risk of legal fees. All we do is keeping a success-related commission.
Andrew Scrivani Freelance commercial and editorial photographer
Andrew Scrivani is a New York based freelance commercial and editorial photographer and director. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Food Section since 2002. Andrew is represented by TRUE MGMT/Ray Brown for photography and The Artist’s Company for film and commercial directing projects.
Andrew’s photography has been seen in magazines and newspapers worldwide. His photography is also recently featured in international advertising campaigns by The New York Times, Lean Cuisine, Bumble Bee Seafoods, Country Crock and Kraft Foods. His recent commercial projects include spots for Oprah’s new food line with Kraft, Oh!, That’s Good Foods, Bumble Bee Seafoods, Outback Steakhouse, Quaker Oats, Reese’s and A&E Networks.
Andrew has also done the photography for over a dozen cookbooks including Kate McDermott’s James Beard Nominated Art of the Pie and seven cookbooks for ABC TV’s The Chew.
You can read his columns in the New York Times Diner’s Journal blog. Andrew was recently featured in an article and video by the New York Times Lens Blog in 2015.
Andrew also teaches photography workshops and speaks nationally on Food Photography. He is a regular contributor on creativeLIVE.com and Adobe Live. Alison Smith Manager, WGBH Stock
Alison Smith heads up WGBH Stock Sales, the stock footage and stills licensing unit of the WGBH Media Library and Archives, which she has managed for 15 years. Alison also negotiates all the stock footage, stills and music deals for WGBH, which is the leading producer of content in the PBS system.
Prior to working as a stock footage professional, Alison did film and image research on public television documentaries. She also managed a team of film researchers for WGBH who worked on multi-part historical documentaries. Alison was the Director of Archival Research on various WGBH Programs including biographies of Presidents Reagan and Eisenhower, and has done film research on numerous WGBH programs and series. She has also had extensive experience licensing stock footage and stills in her role as film researcher and rights coordinator. Her professional experience also includes work as a Producer, Associate Producer and Assistant Editor.
Alison is a founding member and serves as Treasurer on the executive board of the footage trade association, ACSIL.
Tomas Speight CEO of Panther Media GmbH
Tomas Speight is CEO of Panther Media GmbH, Germany‘s leading stock photo agency with a photographer community of its own. He is responsible for Marketing, Sales and Product-Strategy including managing all international relationships.
Tomas is known in the stock photo industry for his work at zefa visual media and most recently Masterfile where he was instrumental in increasing the company’s global footprint. Prior to joining Masterfile, he led zefa visual media, where he worked as co-CEO for four years, to a leading position in the global photography industry. Before that, Tomas established and managed European operations for The Stock Market Photo Agency where he took his first steps into the photography industry. While he entered the photo business when catalogues and dupes where still the key to success he has strived to be instrumental in driving timely transformation and is an advocate of strategies based on change.
Jason Teichman CEO of Pond5
Jason Teichman is the CEO of Pond5, the leading marketplace for professional-quality video, music, and rich-media content licensing. With the world’s largest collection of royalty-free video,a best-in-class technology platform, and an innovative focus on high-growth new media such as VR/360, 3D models, and motion graphics, Pond5 is uniquely positioned to help creators license their work to a rapidly growing global audience of professional media buyers.
Under Teichman’s leadership, Pond5 has invested heavily in next-generation search and discovery technology, including AI-driven tools to protect the intellectual property rights of its artists. Offering buyers the broadest license rights in the industry without the constraints of the traditional “rights-managed” approach, he has also worked toward opening new global distribution channels. This approach has allowed the company to reach new buyers and consumers around the world, leading to rapid revenue growth since he joined in 2016.
Jason brings with him more than two decades of experience in running digital-media businesses. Prior to Pond5, he served as EVP and COO at Web.com (NASDAQ: WEB). He has also held executive leadership roles atRegister.com and American Express. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Political Science. Jonathan Thomas Founder & CEO Image Protect
Jonathan Thomas is a cofounder of Image Protect and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since June 2014 (inception). From February of 2004 through the present, he was the President of Lived In Images, Inc., one of the largest niche stock photo agencies and content producers focused on architecture.
In addition, he’s successfully marketed & distributed his own craft brewery, as well as 30 other specialty beers from Canada, England and Belgium throughout Southern California. He is an experienced photo industry executive and entrepreneur with more than 22 years of business management experience, 13 years of global photo industry and digital media experience. Jonathan has served as the membership chair for PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) In 1991, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Production from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara California
Tom Tramborg CEO of the MEGA Agency
As the CEO, Tom Tramborg is responsible for running all facets of the business. Tramborg has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience in driving, innovation and sales growth in the media industry.
Prior to joining Mega, Tramborg was Senior Director for Getty Images in the Nordics and prior to that Head of All Over Press in the Nordics, Russia and the Baltics. He is currently sitting on the board of Indie Frame. Tramborg has been focused on digital transformation, innovation and automation that drives new revenue streams, taking a content and photographer point of view in doing that. Tramborg holds a degree in international marketing from Niels Brock Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Margaret Vincent United Senior Counsel, Stocksy
Margaret Vincent has been practicing law for nearly 15 years since graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, in subjects ranging from child custody to consumer protection litigation. Additionally, Margaret’s non-law experience includes work in basic design, customer service, and media relations, all of which serve her well in her current role as Stocksy’s Senior Counsel.
Margaret joined Stocksy at its inception as a photographer, before joining the staff a year later in a full- time legal role. She continues to act as both a contributing artist and in-house counsel, giving her a unique viewpoint on the stock industry. Her photo work focuses on the urban landscape and complex compositions. In her legal capacity, Margaret works to balance the rights of Stocksy’s artists with the needs of clients, educating both along the way. Margaret is well-versed in Canadian co-op governance, licensing, contract negotiation, and “translating” legal documents into more accessible forms. She works closely with Stocksy’s editors and contributors on IP topics, but has learned to always keep Nancy Wolff’s number on speed dial for the inevitable unique questions.
Margaret works for Stocksy remotely from her home in downtown Chicago. Jonathan Wells President and Bureau Chief of Sipa
Since 2003, Jonathan has been President and Bureau Chief of Sipa USA, an International photo agency with more than 30 partners worldwide. Prior to joining Sipa, Jonathan managed Picture History, a historical photo collection. He was also a news photo editor at the Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and largest news agencies. Jonathan’s first position in the editorial business was at a photo agency in Providence, RI covering national and international stories such as the Claus von Bulow murder trial.
Jonathan has extensive experience in strategic partnerships, content acquisition, marketing, and global business development. He has developed, executed and maintained licensing agreements in more than 40 countries.
Jonathan received his Bain Economics from New York University, studied European economics and politics at the University of London, Queen Mary College, and Holds the DELF (The Diplôme d’études en langue française) which is a diploma issued by the French National Ministry of Education to certify skills in French.
Jonathan serves on the boards of several non-for-profit organizations. For the past 6 summers, Jonathan has volunteered as a swim leader and banquet manager for Experience Camps: summer camps for children who have lost a parent, sibling, or other loved one.
Matthew White Executive Director, ACSIL
Matthew White founded the WPA Film Library in 1986, and has held senior management positions at National Geographic Digital Media and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, where he served as the Executive Director of the American Archive. Mr. White is also an award-winning filmmaker of archive-inspired programs, and serves as a member of the United Nations-organized advocacy group, Archives at Risk. Recently, he originated and co-produced the award-winning feature film “Eight Days A Week” with The Beatles and Ron Howard and is the Executive Director of the trade group ACSIL, which represents the interests of global film and video archives.
Lisa Willmer Vice President, Corporate Counsel, Getty Images
As Vice President, Corporate Counsel at Getty Images, Lisa is responsible for providing legal assistance and advising the company in the areas of intellectual property, licensing, digital media, and technology.
Lisa joined Getty Images in 2006, and has worked in both the Seattle and London offices. Prior to joining Getty Images, Lisa was an attorney at Microsoft, where she handled copyright and trademark litigation. She also served as a Trial Attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
Lisa started her practice with the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, after serving as a law clerk to Judge Beezer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Ezra on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law (J.D. 1998) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1993). Nancy E. Wolff DMLA Counsel, Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLC
Nancy E. Wolff is a member of the Intellectual property, media and entertainment law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLC located in New York, New York. She represents a wide range of creative individuals and companies in all areas of digital media, licensing and publishing and serves as counsel to the Digital Media Licensing Organization. She is a frequent speaker on copyright, digital media, and licensing for many organizations. She is currently the President of the Copyright Society of the USA, and serves on the ABA Copyright Reform Task Force. She is recognized as a Super Lawyer in Intellectual Property and ranked by Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 female lawyers in New York City and she was recently named to the 2018 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America.