A diverse panel of experts at the Web 2.0 Conference looks at how the web is changing the music business, and how music is driving tech adoption. The panel looks at copyright and filesharing, how the music industry must morph if it is to survive, and how consumers are taking things into their own hands.

The panel includes:

• Hank Barry, Partner, Hummer Winblad
• Mike Caren, Senior Vice President of A&R, Atlantic Records
• Eddy Cue, Vice President, Applications and Internet Services, Apple
• Danger Mouse
• Michael Weiss, CEO, Streamcast

• Hank Barry is a partner at Hummer Winblad. He joined the firm in July 1999. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad, he was a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a leading Silicon Valley technology law firm, where he led the firm's interactive new media practice. At WSGR, Barry was principal outside counsel to several pioneering Internet companies, including Global Village Communications, Looksmart, Liquid Audio and NetDynamics. From May 2000 through July 2001 he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Napster, Inc.

  Barry holds a B.A. degree in economics with highest distinction from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review. He currently serves on the Boards of several nonprofit organizations, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. He is on the Board of Sensoria Corporation.

• Mike Caren is Senior Vice President of A&R at Atlantic Records. He began his music career in 1994, when, at the age of 16, he created his own marketing company, School Rules Promotions. He went on to work for Loud Records/RCA as National High School/College Rep. Coordinator and then Ruthless Records as National Marketing Manager.

  At 18, Caren joined Atlantic, doing marketing for the Big Beat label, and attended the Stern School of Business at NYU. Since moving to Atlantic's A&R Department in 1998, he has been responsible for recruiting a string of top-charting artists. Among Caren's signings are seven artists whose debut Atlantic releases were certified RIAA gold (500,000+) or platinum (1,000,000+): Trick Daddy, Nappy Roots (for which he also served as Executive Producer), Twista, Trina, Sunshine Anderson, Drama, and T.I.. He has also worked on successful soundtracks to Dr. Dolittle, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Osmosis Jones, and Any Given Sunday and launched the Vice Records label (The Streets, The Stills). He is also an accomplished producer in his own right (Pharcyde, Jem, Ludacris), having produced tracks for more than ten albums and five films.

  Caren also started his own label, Serious Entertainment, and publishing company, Serious Scriptures and has seen his own records and songs on the Billboard charts.

• Eddy Cue is Apple's vice president of Applications and Internet Services. He oversees Apple's iLife applications, including iTunes, the iTunes Music Store, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD, as well as .Mac and the online Apple Store.

  Eddy received a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

• Danger Mouse has been nailed by NME as "The Hottest Hip-Hop Producer in the World." Entertainment Weekly placed him 20th on their "MUST List: People & Things We Love." Q Magazine recently added him to their "Industry's 100 Most Influential People" list.

  Rarely does an artist-producer in the hip hop world come out of nowhere to dominate the scene. The Brooklyn-born, Atlanta-reared Danger Mouse might soon prove to be an exception.

  Danger Mouse has had an incredible year so far, receiving massive critical acclaim for his debut Danger Mouse & Jemini Ghetto Pop Life CD (SPIN magazine called it "a remarkable debut." URB magazine called it "an instant classic"). The album features guests including Tha Alkaholiks, J-Zone, Prince Po from Organized Konfusion and The Pharcyde).

  Danger Mouse raised the bar on hip hop experimentalism by dropping the infamous Grey Album, which used the full vocal content of Jay-Z's Black Album, recorded over new beats and production created using the Beatles White Album as it';s sole source material. The resulting record is a unique hybrid of work, a re-interpretation being touted as the one of greatest remix albums of all time. With one million downloads in a week and ensuing battle between major record companies, the media, Internet and copyright advocates, the release of the Grey Album has been nothing less than a watershed moment for music.

  Recently Danger Mouse has produced songs featuring Cee-Lo and Sadat-X for the Danger Mouse & Jemini 26" EP as well as produced the song "Garden Gnomes" for Sage Francis. He executive produced the new Prince Po album which includes tracks produced by Danger Mouse and Madlib amongst others.

  Danger Mouse has recently made appearances at some of the biggest events this Summer including Coachella and Bonnaroo. Current projects include his remix of the Zero 7 single "Somersault" featuring MF DOOM as well as an upcoming remix of N.E.R.D.'s song "Maybe." Danger Mouse is currently producing array of artists including Gorillaz, MF Doom, and Tha Alkaholiks as well as remixing Tweaker "Ruby" featuring Will Oldham.

• Michael Weiss has extensive experience in the Internet and entertainment industries. Prior to StreamCast, Weiss was founder of WebRadio.com, a subsidiary of GEO Interactive Media Group, Ltd. (GIM:LSE) and served as its vice president and general manager. Previously, Weiss was vice president of marketing and entertainment at CD-ROM company, Sirius Publishing from 1994 to 1998. He was a pioneer in the home video industry, having established one of the first video stores in the world in 1978. He was actively involved in lobbying efforts against the Motion Picture Association of America's efforts to repeal the First Sale Doctrine, thereby paving the way for legal video rentals. In 1974, Weiss helped establish one of the music industry's first major record pools, Chicago's Disco-Tech, Inc., helping to gain exposure of new recording artists that could not obtain radio airplay.

This is a presentation delivered at the Web 2.0 Conference held in San Francisco, CA, October 5-7, 2004. Our thanks go to MediaLive International and O'Reilly Media, the producers of Web 2.0, for permission to bring you this session, one of many from Web 2.0 here on IT Conversations.