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ADVISORY/RecordTV Founder David Simon and Entertainment Attorney John Genga to Participate in Roundtable Forum Hosted by Experiant.


Business/Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week.  (Dec. 5)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHEN:           6:30-10 p.m. PT, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2000

WHERE:          The Knitting Factory -- Hollywood
                7021 Hollywood Blvd.
                One block east of La Brea
                Hollywood, Calif.

WHAT:           A moderated roundtable forum hosted by Experiant
                focused on Intellectual Property and the Future of
                Internet Television. The event will examine the issues
                surrounding the adoption of new technologies by
                consumers for viewing entertainment and the legal and
                intellectual property rights issues surrounding
                commercial redistribution of broadcast content.

WHO:            David Simon, founder and chief executive officer of
                RecordTV, a Web-based virtual VCR service. RecordTV
                enables users to log in, click on the name of any TV
                show broadcasted nationwide, record the broadcast and
                then any time after the show has aired, come back to
                the Web site and view the recorded broadcast using a
                Windows media player. RecordTV had 100,000 registered
                users before the MPAA and law firms representing 12
                media corporations temporarily shut down the service.

                John Genga is an entertainment intellectual property
                attorney and partner with Paul, Hasting, Janofsky
                & Walker LLP. In addition, Genga writes a monthly
                entertainment law column for the Los Angeles Daily
                Journal. He has also written articles on Napster and
                MP3.

                Nancy Hughes (moderator) -- A journalist for a
                variety of entertainment trades, including the
                Hollywood Reporter, Kid Screen and Playback. Hughes
                has written extensively both on- and offline about the
                effects of technology on entertainment.

REGISTRATION:   Cost $15.
                RSVP online at www.experiant.com/events

                Complimentary media credentials are available to
                qualified members of the media. To get yours, contact
                Rebecca Hutchinson at rthutchinson@mediaone.net or
                323/957-9423.

ABOUT
EXPERIANT:      Based in Culver City's Conjunctive Points creative
                district, Experiant specializes in meeting the needs
                of emerging ventures by providing leading-edge product
                development, technology and marketing and distribution
                services. Visit the company's Web site at
                www.experiant.com.

EVENT
CO-SPONSOR:     Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey LLP offers a
                complete range of legal services, including counseling
                emerging and mature companies on strategic growth and
                business dispute resolution matters, and representing
                clients in insurance coverage, entertainment law,
                employment issues, tax and ERISA disputes and
                transactions, and in commercial litigation. The Web
                site is www.trooplaw.com.
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