Speakers
Sandra Aistars
Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Time Warner, Inc.
Sandra Aistars serves as Associate General Counsel on Intellectual Property issues at Time Warner Inc. In this role, she is responsible for developing, managing, and coordinating copyright policy and strategies for the company and its divisions, particularly as they pertain to new opportunities and challenges posed by digital technologies. Sandra represents the company and its divisions in multi-industry efforts related to the distribution and protection of copyrighted content. She also chairs the group of eight companies developing the Advanced Access Content System technology which protects copyrighted content and provides additional functionality for next generation optical media such as high definition DVD. Sandra’s practice also includes work before the United States Congress, the Copyright Office and Federal agencies concerning general copyright and intellectual property matters and issues related to the development and implementation of digital rights management and other technologies for secure distribution and management of copyrighted content in digital formats.
Before joining Time Warner Sandra was an attorney at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, where she worked with the firm’s Public Policy and Litigation practices, specializing in technology and e-commerce issues related to intellectual property. While at Weil, she played a key role in developing and implementing a multi-industry licensing and management approach to copy protection, and represented one of the developers of the encryption technology used on DVD discs, one of the founders of the “5C” group of companies in connection with the licensing of Digital Transmission Content Protection (“DTCP”) technology used to protect content as it traverses the home network, and one of the developers of the Content Protection for Prerecorded Media and Content Protection for Removable Media technologies (“CPPM” and “CPRM”, respectively) used to protect DVD audio and to enable secure storage and recording of audio and video content. Sandra also represented clients in connection with enactment and enforcement of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as in connection with music licensing matters, including in copyright royalty arbitration before the Copyright Office. In the cable arena Sandra has represented clients in negotiating the (then) PHILA and DFAST licenses necessary to build products with “plug and play” digital cable capabilities.
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Speakers and Topics That Matter
The Summit on Intellectual Property and Digital Media is proud to host speakers from all sides of the featured issues. Cable programmers, legal experts, systems operators, and academics come together to inform our discussions and generate new understanding.
Sessions at the Summit will include: Consumer Behavior in a Digital World, Current Legal and Regulatory Landscape, Technological Change and New Business Models, and Digital Rights Management.
