WIPO

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Ambassador and Permanent Representative of The Gambia to the UN Office at Geneva, World Trade Organization (WTO), and other offices in Geneva.

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Director of Policy and Open Culture, Creative \r\nCommons, the Netherlands.

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Head, Creative Economy Section, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IES, WIPO

Mr. Cuntz heads the Creative Economy Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he worked as a senior consultant at the Federal Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI) in Berlin and as a research fellow at the European Commission in Seville. His economic research focuses on creativity, the role of intellectual property, and the impact of digitization on creative industries.

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Duncan CRABTREE-IRELAND
National Executive Director, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), United States of America

Duncan is the National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of SAG-AFTRA. In this capacity, he oversees the world’s most influential union of actors and media artists, representing over 160,000 members worldwide who work in film, television, broadcast news, commercials, music, radio, video games, and more.

Crabtree-Ireland has played a critical role in SAG-AFTRA’s signature achievements over the past two decades. He was a key leader of the successful merger between SAG and AFTRA in 2012, was the principal architect of SAG-AFTRA’s landmark pandemic safety response and return-to-work initiatives, and led the union’s historic 2023 TV/Theatrical Contract negotiations and strike. Crabtree-Ireland is a strategic and creative chief negotiator who has personally led or overseen contract negotiations for SAG-AFTRA’s Television/Film/Streaming, Video Games, Commercials, Music, Network Television, and Telemundo Spanish-language contracts, among others.

Crabtree-Ireland also leads the union’s technology and innovation team, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and its impact on SAG-AFTRA members and the media and entertainment industry generally and has presented on A.I. and worker topics in forums as varied as CES, the International Labor Organization, the World Economic Forum, the Council of Institutional Investors, and the U.S. Senate, among many others. He is a dedicated advocate for equity and inclusion in the entertainment industry and was honored with the AFL-CIO’s “At the River I Stand” award for his work in the intersection of labor and civil rights, as well as being named one of Out magazine’s 100 most influential LGBTQ+ individuals in 2023. He hosts SAG-AFTRA’s biweekly video streaming series, leading more than 100 episodes, and is the co-host of the SAG-AFTRA Podcast and the SAG-AFTRA Podcast en Español. He previously served as SAG-AFTRA’s longtime Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel.

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Deputy Director / Cultural Trade and Cooperation \r\nDivision, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Republic of \r\nKorea.

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He worked on many other landmark copyright cases at Google. Prior to joining\r\nGoogle, he was copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he drafted many\r\nimportant sections of the copyright act in formulating copyright policy. Before becoming copyright\r\ncounsel to the House, he was Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright\r\nOffice, he was the Register’s principal policy advisor, on both domestic and international issues. In this\r\nrole he was part of numerous government delegations to negotiate with foreign governments. He has\r\npublished intensively on copyright law, he has two legal treatises, one a general treatise, Patry on\r\nCopyright, published by Thomson Reuters. The other is Patry on Fair Use, also published by\r\nThomson Reuters. He has written around 50 law review articles (including one with Judge Posner),\r\nand has written two general audience books on copyright, published by Oxford University Press,\r\n“Moral Panics in the Copyright Wars,” and “How to Fix Copyright.” He lectures frequently on\r\nprofessional panels, most recently (and not surprisingly) on copyright and AI. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/140c816b-42d1-4af1-b31a-028e18bcbcd2.PNG","name":"Mr. William Patry","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227843,"bio":null,"birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":null,"name":"Mr. Shen Yang","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":227844,"bio":"Ben Sheffner is Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Law\r\n& Policy, at the Motion Picture Association, where he specializes in\r\ncopyright, First Amendment, and other legal and policy issues of\r\nimportance to the MPA’s member studios. With dual appointments in the\r\nMPA’s Legal and Government Affairs departments, Ben works closely\r\nwith attorneys and policy advocates internally and at the MPA’s member\r\nstudios to formulate and implement strategies to create a favorable environment for the industry\r\nto thrive, both economically and creatively. Among his several roles, Ben frequently represents\r\nMPA before federal and state government officials and entities; manages the MPA’s amicus\r\nbrief program; and serves as counsel to the Title Registration Bureau. Prior to joining the MPA\r\nin 2011, Ben held in-house legal positions at NBCUniversal and Twentieth Century Fox, and\r\nworked as an associate in the Century City office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he litigated\r\ncopyright and other cases for major movie studios, television networks, and record labels. In\r\n2008, Ben served as Special Counsel on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, where,\r\namong other responsibilities, he handled the campaign’s copyright, trademark, and other\r\nintellectual property issues. Ben served as a law clerk for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown on\r\nthe US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2000-2001. Ben serves as an Adviser to the\r\nAmerican Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright project and has previously held\r\npositions as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA as well as the Los Angeles Copyright\r\nSociety, and as a participant on the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted a uniform\r\nanti-SLAPP statute. Prior to attending law school, Ben worked as a political reporter in\r\nWashington, DC for the Cook Political Report and Roll Call newspaper, where he covered\r\ncongressional elections, the term limits movement, campaign finance reform, and various other\r\nissues related to Congress’ internal politics and administration. Ben received an A.B. from\r\nHarvard College and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt\r\nHall). 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