Common Ground Webinar Series
Common Ground Webinar Series
Our Common Ground Webinar Series offers you exclusive looks at new tech & services advancing our industry, data from our trusted research partners, and a seat at roundtable discussions on timely issues — all for FREE!
Active Music Biz members can present webinars in our series for free — contact Henryk Bik to learn how to get involved & ask any questions!
Engineering Trust into Music Data:
Our Approach to Governed Ingestion for Rights, Royalty, and Metadata Pipelines
Thurs., October 1st | 2 – 3 PM ET
Music data breaks down long before it reaches AI or analytics – it breaks at ingestion, where DDEX files, CWR registrations, and society royalty reports arrive in inconsistent formats with no shared validation layer. In this session, DataArt’s engineering team walks through our approach to solving that at the source: automated schema validation on arrival, standardized normalization across partners, and full audit trails before data ever reaches a warehouse, built on cloud-native infrastructure with a governed analytics layer downstream. We’ll show the architecture decisions behind this pipeline, what we’ve learned about building it, and how the same approach applies whether you’re modernizing legacy infrastructure or building fresh.
Provenance, Attribution and Detection: 3 Problems, 3 Different Technologies
Thurs., October 15th | 2 – 3 PM ET
Provenance, attribution and detection get used interchangeably in almost every AI music conversation, and they shouldn’t be. Provenance asks where the musical material came from and what happened to it during the creation process. Attribution asks who contributed what. Detection asks whether AI was involved in creating it.
Most of the industry uses these words interchangeably, and that’s a problem, because they’re solved by completely different technologies and they answer different questions. Understanding the difference matters for anyone trying to build workable rights infrastructure
This session pulls the three apart. We’ll look at what each one can actually tell you, where each one breaks down, and why a platform, a label, or a rightsholder needs all three with concrete examples.
How Rightsholders Can Unlock More Revenue from the Digital Music Economy
Thurs., October 29th | 3 – 4 PM ET
*please note time change*
The music industry’s infrastructure has grown increasingly complex, and that complexity is costing rightsholders. Labels and publishers are leaving money on the table as platforms, apps and digital services struggle to navigate fragmented licensing, inconsistent metadata and slow rights clearances. This session explores the other side of that equation: what it looks like when rightsholders can effectively partner with infrastructure providers to reduce that friction, get their music into more products faster and ensure they’re properly reported to and paid. Drawing on MassiveMusic’s experience managing compliance, rights clearance and reporting for complex global deals, we’ll look at how rightsholders can launch into more services faster and ensure the revenue follows.
What Your Catalog is Worth and What Options You Have
Thurs., November 5th | 2 – 3 PM ET
Catalogs are worth more than most creatives realize. The growth of streaming has turned unpredictable income into something buyers and lenders can model, and that has changed both the number on the page and who’s willing to put capital behind it.
This session — featuring Sound Royalties Founder & CEO, Alex Heiche and First Horizon Bank EVP, Andrew Kintz — will cover what drives the value of catalogs today and the main ways to leverage those assets. Bank lending and royalty advances have both been available for decades, and financing your catalog of music is more accessible than most people realize. Both are creative-friendly options, built around how music income behaves over time and the overall value of a catalog, but each one comes with different criteria and qualifications for funding. Choosing the “right” option depends on the catalog, the timeline, and what the money is for.
Applying AI Towards Catalog / Works Matching
Thurs., December 3rd | 2 – 3 PM ET
In this webinar, we will look at AI and the impact it’s having on the music industry. We will focus on missing metadata & what that means for matching purposes, including a deep dive on royalty calculation flexibility. We will also touch on issues like pool centric vs. artist centric royalty models, and how the Vistex Music Cloud addresses mechanical calculation options. Don’t miss this exciting, interactive session!
Music Biz members have unlimited access to our entire back catalog of webinars; non-members can access webinar recordings for 90 days after the session takes place. Non-members may request access to older webinars, and will be contacted with more information about the Association.