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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Joe Salvo] OK. Thank you very much. Good evening. Welcome to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Copyright Society of the USA's 43rd annual Donald C. Brace lecture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Joe Salvo, and it is my honor as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President of the Copyright Society to welcome you here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Fordham University School of Law, and to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,introduce tonight's honorary speaker Shira Perlmutter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you that don't know, the Copyright Society is a member run
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,non-profit organization. We are celebrating our 61st Year, and, uh,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lots and lots of activities that we, uh, sponsor - I would encourage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those of you who are not familiar to go to our website
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,www.csusa.org
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a totla schedule of everything that we're doing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, each year the Society seeks to single out one of the leading
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinkers, writers, scholars, practitioners
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jurists, or policymakers in our field, that has contributed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the understanding, discourse, and advancement of copyright,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to invite them here to New York, to give the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prestigious Brace lecture. Past speakers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are among some of the giants of copyright
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tonight's speaker is no exception.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shira Perlmutter, for those of you who may not know, currently serves as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that capacity she serves as the policy advisor to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she oversees a number of critical functions, including
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the administration and support for all domestic and international IP
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,policy-related operations, like our trade and treaty obligations;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the oversight of the Office of Policy and External Affairs;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,congressional and legislative engagement is carried out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the Office of Governmental Affairs;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,IP education and training through her involvement with the Global IP Academy;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,global IP leadership though the IP Attache Program; and economic analysis
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the Chief Economist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prior to joining the USPTO Shira served over five and one-half years as the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Executive Vice President of Global Legal Policy, in London, for the IFPI -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the International Federation of Phonograph Industries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,developing and coordinating worldwide IP positions on behalf of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recorded music industry, and representing the labels before various
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inter-governmental bodies including the European Commission.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, while some of us tend to spend our down time in London
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing such pedestrian things as visiting the London Eye or the Tower of London,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while there Shira also served as a lecturer at Kings College at the University of London;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the University of Oxford; as a trustee at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre