Erin L. Dozier is an Associate General Counsel in the Legal and Regulatory Affairs department at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a nonprofit trade association that advocates on behalf of thousands of local radio and television stations and broadcast networks before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other federal agencies, and the courts. Before joining NAB, Ms. Dozier worked at the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, where she was one of three senior attorneys to spearhead the launch of a new communications regulatory practice. Prior to that, Ms. Dozier held a variety of positions at the FCC, working on a range of issues including FCC review of media transactions, media ownership rules, and the DTV transition. Ms. Dozier began her legal career at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where she represented a broad range of communications service providers in regulatory policy and compliance matters before the FCC. She serves on the Board of Advisors of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council and the Board of Trustees of the Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation. For several years, she taught Electronic Media Regulation & Policy at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. Ms. Dozier earned her Bachelors of Arts degree at Hampshire College and her law degree at Georgetown University Law Center.

Bennett J. Fidlow has been involved in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years, specializing in the areas of film, television, home entertainment, live theatre, and new media. He has worked on many international co-productions, handled numerous rights acquisition and development deals, represented high-profile talent, and provided business and legal advice to over 50 studio and independent productions, including Memento, Evan Almighty, The Score (with Robert De Niro & Marlon Brando), John Singleton’s Hustle & Flow (2005 Sundance Film Festival), and The Final Season (2007 Tribeca Film Festival). Mr. Fidlow holds degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University (BFA, Theatre Production), Columbia University (MFA, Theatre Management) and Hastings College of the Law (JD). Mr. Fidlow began practicing law at one of Los Angeles’ preeminent entertainment boutique firms, Bloom, Dekom & Hergott, where he handled film and television deals for the firm’s A-list clientele. Later at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, he headed up the Home Entertainment division’s Business & Legal Affairs Department. More recently, Mr. Fidlow was involved as part of Sony’s legal team in its acquisition of MGM and as part of NBC’s legal team in its merger with Vivendi/Universal. He also just completed due diligence on the Miramax library in connection with Disney’s planned 2010 sale. After living in New York, San Francisco and then 15 years in Los Angeles, Mr. Fidlow moved his family to Richmond, Virginia where he and Kirk Schroder opened the doors on their boutique arts and entertainment law firm in 2003. The firm now has 4 partners, each with approximately 20 years of experience. Despite living in Richmond, technology allows Mr. Fidlow to seamlessly continue servicing his clients, who are located primarily in Los Angeles and New York. Mr. Fidlow specializes in film, television, home entertainment, theatre and new media matters.

Mark MacCarthy teaches and does research at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology Program. He teaches courses on the development of the electronic media, technology policy and Internet freedom. He is also an adjunct member of the Department of Philosophy where he teaches courses in political philosophy and philosophy and privacy. He does research and consults in the areas of information privacy and security, the future of the media, intermediary liability, open standards, electronic and mobile commerce and other technology policy issues. He was Senior Vice President for Global Public Policy at Visa Inc, responsible for policy initiatives affecting electronic commerce, new technology and information security and privacy. He was a senior manager with the Wexler-Walker Group, a Washington public policy consulting firm, and headed the Washington office of Capital Cities/ABC. His government service includes positions as a professional staff member on the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he handled communications policy issues, and as an economist at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Mr. MacCarthy has a PhD in philosophy from Indiana University and an MA in economics from the University of Notre Dame. As Acting General Manager of Travel Channel Media, Jonathan Sichel oversees all aspects of the company and its integrated travel media businesses, including programming, marketing, operations, strategy, new business development, and finance. Travel Channel Media includes the Travel Channel television network, distributed in over 95M homes in the United States; travelchannel.com; and Travel Channel’s interactive, video-on-demand (VOD), international distribution, and mobile content businesses.

Prior to being named Acting General Manager, Jonathan Sichel was the Senior Vice President of Commercial Affairs and Operations, managing the business, operational, and legal functions of Travel Channel Media. Before joining Travel Channel Media, Sichel was Vice President, Business Affairs at Discovery Communications, where he was responsible for overseeing initiatives for Discovery’s Commerce and Consumer Products, and New Media, Divisions. Sichel also oversaw programming deals for the company’s domestic and international networks. His professional background has focused on the intersection of traditional and new media, including time as head of entertainment business development at AOL, as SVP of Business Operations for iCAST, and in Business and Legal Affairs at Launch Music (now Yahoo! Music) and E! Entertainment Television. Before entering the media world, Sichel was an associate at the law firm Skadden, Arps in Los Angeles, where he advised and counseled clients in the Labor and Employment Department. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University, where he supervised construction of the world's longest banana split – which measured 4.39 miles. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

Casey Rae-Hunter the Communications Director for Future of Music Coalition, a national non-profit education, research and advocacy organization for musicians. He is also a musician, recording engineer, journalist and editor. He attended university for jazz guitar at 16, but spent most of the 1990s in the indie music trenches, performing with a wide variety of bands. His music writing has appeared in Washington City Paper, Dusted, Signal to Noise, Grooves, Pitchfork and other publications. Along the way, he has profiled some of the leading figures in both underground and mainstream music, including Antony & the Johnsons, Mike Watt, The Books, Lindsey Buckingham, Animal Collective, Jolie Holland and Built to Spill. As an engineer, he has mixed and mastered numerous releases in genres ranging from power-pop to hip-hop. A social media specialist, gadget enthusiast and media wonk, Rae-Hunter is a keen observer of issues at the intersection of music, technology and policy. He currently writes and records under the moniker The Contrarian.

Colin Rushing is Senior Counsel, Licensing and Enforcement, at SoundExchange. Colin runs SoundExchange’s enforcement program, oversees rate setting and other legal proceedings, and handles a wide array of regulatory and legal issues related to SoundExchange’s daily operations. Colin graduated from James Madison University and the University of Virginia School of Law, and he clerked for the Hon. T.S. Ellis III on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Before he joined SoundExchange, Colin was an attorney at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., where he focused on intellectual property and media law.

Kirk T. Schroder has an extensive entertainment and arts law practice. Kirk was elected by his national peers in the entertainment and sports law profession to be the current Chair of the American Bar Association Entertainment & Sports Law section. His law practice draws entertainment and arts-related clients from all over the United States and the world. Kirk’s work in music is primarily talent-oriented, but he also represents various regionally known record labels. Representative clients currently include a variety of artists with major or independent record label deals. He represents several major live performance promoters and venues. Kirk serves as counsel for production companies and film financiers who have distribution agreements with major Hollywood studios for theatrical motion pictures. He represents a significant number of award-winning independent filmmakers and producers and has extensive working knowledge of the many legal and business aspects of filmmaking (including production matters, applicable union and guild collective bargaining agreements, and financing and distribution arrangements). He continues to serve as counsel on numerous major studio productions for Universal Pictures and has done so for more than a decade. Other production clients come from Europe and the Middle East. Many of his clients have production deals with cable networks such as the Discovery Channel, HBO, and Showtime. He also handles a variety of talent issues on behalf of radio and television personalities, several of whom are nationally syndicated and have some of the highest rated television shows on cable networks.

Meaghan Hemmings Kent is an attorney in the D.C. office of Venable LLP. She focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, right of publicity, patent and domain name matters. She has developed an expertise in online disputes, including resolving publicity, copyright and trademark matters with social networking sites and other online venues. Ms. Kent's practice also includes intellectual property counseling and transactional work and she is a registered patent attorney. She has authored numerous articles and the book An Associate’s Guide to Copyright Law, published by Oxford University Press. She is currently working on An Associate’s Guide to Trademark Law, set to be published by Oxford in late 2010.

Terence P. ("Terry") Ross is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell & Moring LLP. He is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group. He has broad experience litigating various types of intellectual property disputes. He has represented clients in numerous high-profile cases, especially in the application of the intellectual property laws to the Internet and e-commerce. In particular, Mr. Ross represents a number of media companies and other content providers who publish (at least in part) on the Internet. Mr. Ross' experience at both the trial and appellate levels is extensive. He has had a principal role in more than 25 trials and arbitrations. In addition, Mr. Ross has made oral arguments to the Supreme Court of Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuitz In 2002, Mr. Ross was selected by IP Worldwide Magazine as one of the seven best intellectual property litigators in the United States under the age of 45. Washingtonian Magazine selected Mr. Ross as one of the "best lawyers" in the Washington, D.C. area in 2004 and 2007 (the last two years it published this respected survey. And, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy has conferred on Mr. Ross its designation as a "Master Advocate." Mr. Ross speaks and writes regularly on a variety of intellectual property topics. In particular, Mr. Ross chairs the DC Bar Association's Annual Developments in Intellectual Property Law Forum. He is also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School where he teaches intellectual property. Mr. Ross is the author of the leading treatise on intellectual property damages, Intellectual Property Law: Damages and Remedies, published by Law Journal Press.

Alicia C. Shepard was appointed NPR's ombudsman in October 2007. In 2000, NPR was the first U.S. broadcast news organization to create an Ombudsman position. In this role, Shepard serves as the public's representative, and is responsible for bringing transparency to journalism decision-making processes. She responds to queries and comments from listeners, writes a blog, appears on NPR programs to discuss listener concerns, and provides guidance on journalism practices to NPR Member stations. She sees her job as explaining NPR to listeners, and listeners to NPR. She also teaches a graduate-level course in Media Ethics at Georgetown University, where she won the 2009 Dean Service award for teaching in the journalism program. Before coming to NPR, Shepard spent four years teaching journalism and contributing to Washingtonian magazine, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Newark Star Ledger and The Washington Post while working on a book. That book, Woodward & Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate (2006, Wiley), chronicles the lives of the two journalists during and after their landmark investigation. She is the co-author of Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11 (2002), about how journalists covered the tragedy and the public roles they played. She also wrote Narrowing the Gap: Military, Media and the Iraq War (2004). She is on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the Organization of News Ombudsmen. From 1993 to 2002, Shepard was a principal contributor to American Journalism Review on such topics as ethics and the newspaper industry. Her work was recognized three times with the National Press Club's top media criticism prize. In 2003, Shepard served as a Foster Distinguished Writer at Penn State. She was a staff reporter with The San Jose (CA) Mercury News from 1982 to 1987. Shepard has also taught English in Japan. Shepard holds a B.A. in English from The George Washington University and received a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Damon Jones serves as Vice President & General Counsel and is entering his fourth season with the Nationals. He is responsible for all legal affairs of the Club, including contracts and other legal matters related to both the business operations and baseball operations of the Nationals. Damon also handles baseball salary arbitration cases for the Club. Prior to joining the Nationals, Damon practiced at the law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC. There, his practice included complex litigation as well as transactional and general business representation of high profile individuals, including baseball and basketball players and some members of the media. Prior to joining Williams & Connolly, Jones served as an inaugural law clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He also practiced law at the Century City law firm Greenberg Glusker, where he represented Dreamworks SKG founder Jeffrey Katzenberg in a well-known lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1998 and a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also played Division I intercollegiate baseball, in 1993. He also served as a California State Senate Fellow before attending Harvard Law School. Damon is a member of the board of directors of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (“RBI”)

James (Jim) Oldham is the St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History at Georgetown Law Center. He has been on the full-time faculty since 1970. Previously he practiced labor law in Denver, Colorado after graduating from Stanford Law School in 1965. He has been an active arbitrator for over 35 years. At Georgetown, Professor Oldham has taught the basic Labor Law course many times, as well as a Labor Arbitration seminar (sometimes co-taught with Rich Bloch). He also teaches the traditional course in contracts and seminars on English legal history and the history of the jury. For a number of years, his arbitration work was mainly in the steel and aluminum industries. In 1996, he was appointed Permanent Umpire for Reynolds Metals Company and the USW, and in April 1997, he took over as Impartial Umpire for Bethlehem Steel Company and the USW, which continued until Bethlehem Steel went out of existence in 2003. In 2000 he assumed the post of Umpire for Alcoa and the USW, and this Umpireship continues. From 2004-07 he was the grievance arbitrator for the National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association, and in 2009 he became a salary arbitrator for Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association, which continues. Previously he was a member of the Foreign Service Grievance Board at the State Department (Chairman from 1991 to 1996). He has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1985.

Mr. Zelenko practices in the areas of copyright, defamation, corporate and labor law, and federal legislative and regulatory matters. He has represented clients in arbitration proceedings as well as federal and state court litigation. Most recently, he provided counseling, advice, and legislative representation to the London Insurance Market with respect to legislation designed to reform asbestos claims litigation. Mr. Zelenko is a respected counselor and advisor in government relations and has represented the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots and the Screen Actors Guild with respect to federal regulatory and legislative matters. Mr. Zelenko represents authors in the negotiation of publishing contracts, litigation, and defamation counseling. He also represents groups of authors, composers, and athletes through his representation of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the National Football League Players Association. Civil rights has been another area in which Mr. Zelenko has been an active participant. In that connection, he represented Japanese-Americans in the Supreme Court seeking reparations for constitutional deprivations during World War II.