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[Joe Salvo] OK. Thank you very much. Good evening. Welcome to

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the Copyright Society of the USA's 43rd annual Donald C. Brace lecture.

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My name is Joe Salvo, and it is my honor as

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President of the Copyright Society to welcome you here

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to Fordham University School of Law, and to

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introduce tonight's honorary speaker Shira Perlmutter.

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For those of you that don't know, the Copyright Society is a member run

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non-profit organization. We are celebrating our 61st Year, and, uh,

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lots and lots of activities that we, uh, sponsor - I would encourage

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those of you who are not familiar to go to our website

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www.csusa.org

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for a totla schedule of everything that we're doing.

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Um, each year the Society seeks to single out one of the leading

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thinkers, writers, scholars, practitioners

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jurists, or policymakers in our field, that has contributed

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to the understanding, discourse, and advancement of copyright,

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and to invite them here to New York, to give the

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prestigious Brace lecture. Past speakers

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are among some of the giants of copyright

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and tonight's speaker is no exception.

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Shira Perlmutter, for those of you who may not know, currently serves as

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Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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In that capacity she serves as the policy advisor to

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the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property,

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and she oversees a number of critical functions, including

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the administration and support for all domestic and international IP

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policy-related operations, like our trade and treaty obligations;

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the oversight of the Office of Policy and External Affairs;

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congressional and legislative engagement is carried out

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through the Office of Governmental Affairs;

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IP education and training through her involvement with the Global IP Academy;

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global IP leadership though the IP Attache Program; and economic analysis

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through the Chief Economist.

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Prior to joining the USPTO Shira served over five and one-half years as the

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Executive Vice President of Global Legal Policy, in London, for the IFPI -

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the International Federation of Phonograph Industries,

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developing and coordinating worldwide IP positions on behalf of the

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recorded music industry, and representing the labels before various

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inter-governmental bodies including the European Commission.

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And, while some of us tend to spend our down time in London

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doing such pedestrian things as visiting the London Eye or the Tower of London,

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while there Shira also served as a lecturer at Kings College at the University of London;

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as a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center

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at the University of Oxford; as a trustee at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre