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Paul Sweeting, CEO, Concurrent Media; Editor & Co-Chair, RightsTech

If licensing and royalty payments are ever to be managed with the same machine-to-machine efficiency as media distribution and consumption, rights information must be put into machine-readable formats. A panel of senior executives from across media sectors to discuss the status of various initiatives to get rights information into machine-readable form, the challenges they’re facing, and how close or far we are from reliable machine-to-machine rights clearances. ​ PANELISTS: Dae Bogan, Co-founder and CEO, TuneRegistry Benji Rogers, CEO, dotblockchain Music Michael Shanley, Vice President of IT Business Development, Music Reports Michael Simon, President, Rumblefish; CEO, Harry Fox Agency LLC MODERATOR: Christopher…

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Presenter:
Rahul Rumalla, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Paperchain

FIRESIDE CHAT:
Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder, Square
Interviewer: Paul Sweeting, CEO, Concurrent Media; Editor & Co-Chair, RightsTech

Leaders from across media sectors discuss efforts to assign and affix unique identifiers and critical metadata to individual works and the importance of unique IDs in enabling machine-to-machine transactions.

PANELISTS:
Mark Isherwood, DDEX Secretariat, Digital Data Exchange, LLC
Vaughn McKenzie, Co-Founder and CEO, JAAK
Bill Wilson, VP, Digital Strategy & Business Development, Music Business AssociationMODERATOR: Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse

Global platforms and new, digital use cases for content across all media sectors has made the process of obtaining and authorizing rights clearances far more difficult and complicated difficult than in the past, slowing commerce and triggering disputes over unlicensed usage. Could licensing hubs and online marketplaces offering “one-stop shopping” for rights bring order to the chaos? PANELISTS: Susan Allen, Attorney Advisor (Copyright), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Virginie Berger, CEO, Armonia Online Thomas Minkus, Managing Director, IPR License Lee Greer, Founder & President, NPREX MODERATOR: Kris Kliemann, President, Kliemann & Co.

Claiming authorship and establishing a reliable chain of ownership of copyrighted works is critical to enabling commerce. This panel will examine efforts to create rights registries and establish records of provenance if different sectors of the copyright industries. PANELISTS Nathan Lands, Co-Founder & CEO, Binded Joe Naylor, Founder, President & CEO, ImageRights International, Inc. Robert Norton, CEO & Founder, Verisart

Blockchain technology today is often likened to the internet, circa 1996. But is it really a protocol consumers will embrace directly, or is it more like Linux, a useful tool running in the background of more conventional consumer-facing applications? How should rights owners and rights-tech developers think about blockchain? PANELISTS: Jesse Grushack, Co-Founder, Ujo Music Konstantin Richter, CEO, Blockdaemon Bryce Weiner, Founder, Tao Network

Senior executives and policymakers discuss the status of copyright reform efforts underway in the U.S., EU, Canada, Australia, and other territories and what proposed changes could mean for content identification, rights management, and automated licensing technologies. ​ PANELISTS: Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt, International Music Managers Forum, Copyright Committee Lui Simpson, Executive Director, International Enforcement and Trade Policy Association of American Publishers

Robert Kasunic, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Registration Policy and Practice, United States Copyright Office INTERVIEWER: Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse

From initial coin offerings to token sales to royalty-backed loans artists are finding new ways to finance their projects while retaining ownership of their works. But can artists really cut out the middleman altogether? PANELISTS: Robert Binning, CEO, StreamSpace, LLC Hale Boggs, Partner, Corporate and Finance Capital Markets, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; Chair, Manatt Digital Tatiana Moroz, Founder & CEO, Crypto Media Hub Dominic Pandiscia, CEO, PledgeMusic

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection – A Global Perspective PRESENTER: Edward Klaris, Managing Partner, Klaris IP, LLC. Livestreaming Pioneer, YouNow, about its new Blockchain project: PROPS. PRESENTER: Adi Sideman, CEO, YouNow

Everyone agrees that rights-based industries could benefit overall from greater transparency and access to data on ownership, usage and royalty calculations. But not everyone would benefit equally. How can industries create the incentives to make proprietary data less proprietary? ​ PANELISTS: Bill Colitre, Vice President & General Counsel, Music Reports Chris Crawford, CEO, Loudr Dick Huey, Head of Partnership, Jaxsta Robert Singerman, VP International Publishing, LyricFind MODERATOR: Vickie Nauman, Founder/Owner, CrossBorderWorks

Remixes and user-generated content present unique rights-management challenges. How are technology developers and entrepreneurs meeting them? PANELISTS: Danny Anders, CEO & Founder, ClearTracks Alisa Coleman, COO, ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. Stephen White, CEO, Dubset Media MODERATOR: Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic

A discussion of the investment and M&A environment for rights and metadata management technologies, royalties as an asset class, and new technology-enabled financing strategies for artists. ​ PANELISTS: Rodney Elder, VP Commercial Operations, Virtusales Publishing Solutions Brandon Nelson, CEO, PerDiem Matthew Smith, CEO, Royalty Exchange Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director and Head of Digital Media and Internet, Headwaters MODERATOR: Elgin Thompson, Managing Director, Digital Capital Advisors

PANELISTS: Drew Silverstein, CEO & Founder, Amper Music Louis Smoller, Attorney, Savur Threadgold LLP