Join thought leaders from across the global music data, rightsholder and creative communities as they determine the best ways to improve metadata collection and processing, standardize information across established and emerging global music markets, and make it easier for metadata novices to learn all the essential “lingo” and processes.
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11:30 – 11:35 AM ET
Music Biz Welcome
Speakers
11:35 AM – 12:15 PM ET
Opening Keynote Panel: Music Vs. Film/TV Metadata — Similarities, Divergences & Working Together For a Stronger Future
How does Hollywood solve metadata issues? What can the music industry learn from film/TV? For this year’s opening keynote panel, our music and film metadata experts will not only explore how the film industry is working to solve metadata issues within their industry and what the music biz can learn film/TV, but, more importantly, how the two industries can better work together for a stronger tomorrow.
Moderator
Panelists
12:15 – 1 PM ET
It All Starts Here: Matching and Linking Motherloads of Data
In an era when streaming has become the dominant way fans consume and pay for music, terabytes of data are now being reported to labels and publishers monthly, resulting in even heftier quarterly reports. In the past, there may have been opportunities for manual reconciliation. However, in a machine readable world, we need different systems in the supply and value chains to link the master recording and the underlying work so that everyone involved is compensated. Join a panel of experts discussing the most modern technology and approaches to matching and linking each song’s rights holders.
Moderator
Panelist
1 – 1:30 PM ET
Sponsor Roundtables
The following sessions will run simultaneously. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend one of the two service demonstrations below:
Roundtable 1
Pleased to MEAD You!
DDEX will provide an explanation of its new Media Enrichment and Description Standard (MEAD). MEAD was created to enable the communication to DSPs of “non-core” information to help them market to consumers about the products they offer. MEAD supports more than 30 different mechanisms for the description of parties, releases, resources such as sound recordings, and works in ways that are different from the data exchanged using the Release Delivery Standard. The new, expanded standard will benefit the entire chain of a recording in ways that have previously been unavailable.
Presenters
Roundtable 2
VEVA Collect: A New Way to Share Files and Collect Credits
VEVA Sound is proud to present VEVA Collect – the premier file sharing and credits platform for project collaboration in the audio space. For every stage of production: from songwriting to mastering, ensure all of your credits are accurate, keep your files safe, and collaborate in new ways. From podcasts to song catalogs to mixed and mastered projects, the best way to ensure that credits are accurate is to Collect while you Create™. That’s why accurate metadata is at the center of VEVA Collect’s platform, exporting a valid DDEX RIN file.
Presenters
11:30 – 11:35 AM ET
Music Biz Welcome
11:35 AM – 12:15 PM ET
How Today’s New Creator Credits Value Chain Powers Discovery and Payments
The transition from physical to digital media had led to the disappearance of liner notes, but some music services have brought back full creator credits with the participants on each track. A standardized, end-to-end value chain for this data deploying DDEX standards has just been completed and is already in use. Now song and recording data is gathered at the point of creation, delivered to labels and publishers, used on music services, and used to improve the accuracy of royalty payments. Additionally, smart speakers and voice-activated search can use this data to enrich listening and discovery experiences, leading to a future where a music fan will find their new favorite artist by asking, for example, what other tracks the producer of the song they are listening to has worked on.
Our panel discussion will explore everything that the industry is doing on a global scale to show why creator credits matter, and answer your burning questions around how this newly established value chain can be utilized and optimized going forward.
Moderator
Panelists
12:20 – 1 PM ET
You Say License and I Say Licence
Processes and workflows relating to the administration of musical works and sound recordings vary considerably across the world. Yet, this is sometimes forgotten when discussions about improvement in global efficiencies and reductions in the cost of administration take place. Europe and North America’s systems are better recognised – or recognized – but now meaningful digital music markets are growing in APAC, Latin America and Africa. This panel introduces some of new initiatives that are in place or in development in these territories, and discusses some of the specific differences from systems now in place in Europe and North America.
Moderator
Panelists
1 – 1:30 PM ET
Sponsor Roundtables
The following sessions will run simultaneously. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend one of the two service demonstrations below:
Roundtable 1
E Pluribus Unum: “Out of Many, One”
Thousands of hours each year are spent researching and manually rekeying the same titles over and over again. Whether you are a distributor helping a label partner, a label cleaning up your catalog, or a publisher trying to stay on top of all your licensed content — you’ll never need more than just a UPC to automatically bring in your recording, publishing, tags, and industry identifiers with a single click.
Join OpenPlay Co-Founder Edward Ginis, Secretly Distribution’s Head of Digital Content Kristian Davis-Downs and Chris McMurtry, Head of Music Product at Exactuals, as they demonstrate how easy it is to onboard into both OpenPlay and Secretly using just a single identifier.
Presenters
Roundtable 2
ISNI: Link It, Match It, ‘Graph’ It
Join music metadata subject matter expert Tony Brooke, currently WMG’s Senior Director of Product Systems, as he sits down with ISNI evangelist FX Nuttall. FX recently launched Quansic, a Swiss-based company that aims to connect ISNIs with other identifiers to provide a database with the most accurate and complete set of data relating to artists. The two will discuss Quansic’s unique Graph approach, a new working methodology which matches uncontrolled name strings with canonical identities in the ISO standard ISNI data set and proprietary company artist identifiers.
Presenters
11:30 – 11:35 AM ET
Music Biz Welcome
11:35 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Herding The Songwriting Cats: Innovative Approaches in Music Publishing Metadata
The Music Modernization Act spotlighted a deep metadata flaw in management of US mechanical rights and the elusive task of finding and paying millions of songwriters their share of royalties for their splits. A dataset of who owns what and links to master recordings will be a part of the new Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), but it is a monumental task to herd these songwriting cats and get the right data ingested and organized. Our panel of experts in the music publishing metadata space will discuss new and innovative approaches to solve this pervasive problem.
Moderator
Speakers
12:30 – 1 PM ET
Closing Keynote: A Mechanical Licensing Collective Update
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is a nonprofit organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office pursuant to the historic Music Modernization Act of 2018.
Starting in January 2021, The MLC will issue and administer blanket mechanical licenses to eligible streaming and download services (digital service providers or DSPs) in the United States. The MLC will then collect the royalties due under those licenses from the DSPs and pay songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers.
Music industry veteran Vickie Nauman will sit down with Richard Thompson, CIO of The MLC to ask questions about The MLC’s Data Quality Initiative (DQI), managing and exchanging rights data, and the tools currently available to songwriters and publishers to manage their core identifiers and related information.
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Interviewer
1 – 2 PM ET
Making the Metadata Soup
There’s a unique vocabulary associated with music metadata: ISWC, ISRC, IPI, IPN, ISNI, UPC, Grid; never mind ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC (which is not the same as CISAC). To new songwriters, performing artists, and young companies entering our industry, this is just a fog of confusing double-speak. Yet, these are the very people we need to reach with the message of capturing and providing the data as early in the creative and production process as possible. During this town hall-style session, leaders will share the findings of a survey completed by students and those new to the business. A panel of educators and HR representatives will react to the findings and then we will open it up for discussion amongst all attendees on how we as an industry can work together to better reach the next generation of music makers. Be ready to volunteer to be part of a group that moves these ideas forward.
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