Panel 2: “Music, Television, and New Media”

Professor Nesson charted the early field of Internet law in 1997 when he helped found the Berkman Center. Nesson has taught evidence, criminal law, trial law, torts, and ethics for Harvard Law School and continues to incorporate cutting-edge technology into his classes. He graduated from Harvard College in 1960 with a degree in mathematics and received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1963, summa cum laude. Before joining the law school faculty in 1966, Nesson clerked for Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court and worked as a special assistant to John Doar in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

Professor Nesson is currently leading a project for restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches courses in Evidence and internet law, and recently began teaching the innovative new class Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion, which welcomes the participation of the internet community at large.

Founder and president of Intelligent Television. He has been a World Policy Institute Senior Fellow in media and international affairs for 12 years, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the World Policy Journal. Prior to Intelligent Television, Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he developed and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent television producers, literary agents, and authors around the world.

After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’s television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world’s largest provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.

Jim Griffin is Managing Director of OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art.

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.

Christopher R. Lynch is Vice President for Publishing at the Massachusetts Medical Society and Publisher, the New England Journal of Medicine. The Journal is the most widely read, cited, and influential medical journal in the world and the oldest continuously published medical periodical. Mr. Lynch has over 20 years of experience in product development, marketing, database and system development and project management with Fortune 500 companies. He has led the Publishing Division’s efforts to secure long-term financial growth and is now focused on expanding the Journal’s online value to the medical community. Mr. Lynch is a member of the Advisory Boards for Johns Hopkins University Press and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press. He is an active member of the Executive Committee of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing, Division of the American Association of Publishers.