The Future of Music Coalition will host their third-annual Policy Summit January 4 through 7 in Washington D.C. The FMC3 summit will bring policymakers, academics, lawyers, activists — and, of course, a number of premier musicians — together for a discussion of artists’ rights and technology’s influence on the music industry.

Glenn Otis Brown, Creaitve Commons Executive Director, will appear on a panel, “The Illegal Imagination,” on Monday, January 6, along with “This American Life” host Ira Glass, writer and lyricist John Perry Barlow, musicians Doug E. Fresh and Alonzo Blackwell, Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn, and NYU professor Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of Copyrights and Copywrongs and the forthcoming The Anarchist in the Library). See the full program schedule.