p2p news / p2pnet: We often allude to the Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities Technology Task Force, an organization initiated and created by vested Hollywood interests soon after the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) began suing people, with a heavy emphasis on students, as an integral part of its marketing program.

Not at all coincidentally, with respect to students as targets, the RIAA and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) are now corporate members of Internet2 which, they claim, is front and centre in student p2p file sharing activities.

And not at all incidentally, the RIAA boasts only one owner to justify the ‘America" part of its title, and that’s Warner Music, run by a consortium headed up by a Canadian. The other owners are Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) Vivendi Universal (France) and EMI Group (Britain).

Back to the JCHEECTTF, it’s been a while since we updated the membership list, so here it is, according to Educause, which hosts the site.

This was published in May, 2004. It would be interesting to know who the latest ‘members’ are. For example, the RIAA’s Hilary Rosen and the MPAA’s JackValenti are still listed, although they’ve both departed for pastures new.

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Entertainment Industry Representatives

• Cary Sherman (Co-chair) – President, RIAA
• Roger Ames - Chairman and CEO, Warner Music Group
• Matthew T. Gerson - Senior Vice President, U.S. Public Policy and Government Relations, Vivendi Universal
• Sherry Lansing – Chairman, Paramount Pictures
• Hilary Rosen - Chairman and CEO, RIAA
• Jack Valenti - President and CEO, MPAA

Staff

• Fritz Attaway - Executive Vice President Government Relations and Washington General Counsel, MPAA
• Troy Dow - Vice President and Counsel for Technology and New Media, MPAA
• Mitch Glazier - Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Legislative Counsel, Vivendi Universal
• Barry Robinson - Senior Counsel for Corporate Affairs, RIAA [Note: also a Penn State board member]
• Jonathan Whitehead - Vice President and Anti–Piracy Counsel, RIAA

Higher Education Representatives

• Graham Spanier (Co-chair) – President, The Pennsylvania State University
• Molly Corbett Broad – President, University of North Carolina
• John L. Hennessy – President, Stanford University
• Charles Phelps – Provost, University of Rochester
• Dorothy K. Robinson - Vice President and General Counsel, Yale University

Staff

• Mark Luker - Vice President, EDUCAUSE
• Shelley Steinbach - Vice President and General Counsel, American Council on Education
• John Vaughn - Executive Vice–President, Association of American Universities

Entertainment Industry Liaisons to the Technology Task Force

• Cary Sherman (Senior Liaison)
• Joseph Cates - Vice President, Advance Technology, Universal Music Group
• Dr Richard Gooch – IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) [Note: this is an Organized Music owned organization which has nothing to do with North America]
• Brad Hunt - Sr. Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, MPAA
• Jonathan Whitehead - Vice President & Anti–Piracy Counsel, Internet & New Media, RIAA

Liaison Staff

• Bruce Block - Senior Vice President for Technology, RIAA

Higher Education Members

• Charles Phelps (Chair) –University of Rochester
• Dave Lambert - Vice President & CIO, Georgetown University
• Michael McRobbie - Vice President for Information Technology & CIO, Indiana University

Staff

• Mark Luker - EDUCAUSE

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