YNOT – Adult studio Pink Visual, in conjunction with trade association Free Speech Coalition, has scheduled a second Content Protection Retreat to take place Feb. 6-7 in Los Angeles.
“At the end of the first CPR event, there was definite support to continue the education effort by including even more studios and industry attorneys,” said Pink Visual President Allison Vivas. “The FSC and other studios have volunteered staff to help with the event.”
The retreat will incorporate much of the same agenda presented in October during the inaugural event. Intellectual property experts will address preventing piracy and pursuing pirates, and attendees will discover opportunities to help mold FSC’s Anti-Piracy Action Program, but the plans for CPR2 also include “stepping it up a notch,” Vivas said.
“Since much of the foundation was already set at the first CPR event, we plan to be able to provide more tools and resources for studios to walk away with,” Vivas revealed. “Unlike the previous event, we are also encouraging industry attorneys who are interested in the anti-piracy efforts to attend and participate in the private attorney-only discussions as a way to introduce more resources and options to studios.”
CPR2 will have room for 50 studios to participate on-premises, but a virtual component will allow up to 20 additional studios to participate via videoconference. A registration fee will be required for all attendees in order to cover costs. As with the first CPR, all attendees will be screened to ensure there are no conflicts of interest, and media will not be allowed to cover the event.
“Our goal is to empower studios through knowledge which enables them to implement a successful anti-piracy strategy and therefore make a major impact on piracy within the adult industry by 2012,” Vivas said. “The event will include the information, tools and resources necessary to position studios for a good start, as we know a successful strategy takes time to put into effect.”
Vivas said the CPR2 is intended to serve an entirely different group of studios than the ones that participated in the first CPR, although the studios that attended the first CPR maintain contact with each other and continue to work on a collaborative anti-piracy strategy.
“We’ve been very pleased to hear about the progress a number of studios have already made, and we know it’s just a matter of time before the impact of that progress becomes more and more visible,” Vivas said.
The event will end with a cocktail event during which CPR2 attendees and CPR alumni may continue to forge working relationships.
More information will be available in January. For registration information, [EMAIL=lee@pinkvisual.com]email[/EMAIL] Pink Visual Marketing Director Lea Busick or call (520) 290-0910, ext. 237.
