2018 Agenda
2018 RIGHTSTECH SUMMIT AGENDA
Day 1
05 Oct 2018
8:30 am - 9:30 am
REGISTRATION
9:30 am – 9:40 am
EVENTS HALL
OPENING PRESENTATIONS & FIRESIDE CHAT: RIGHTSTECH SUMMIT
PRESENTERS: Pete Mathias, Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, Bertelsmann Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell, CEO & Co-Founder, JAAK Pete Mathias & Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell Topic: Pioneering Music Blockchain Pilot: Learnings & Application For The Wider IP... Read More
Pete Mathias
10:10 am - 10:50 am
EVENTS HALL
VIEW FROM THE TOP: CRYPTO, CODE AND COPYRIGHTS: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Media and technology industry leaders offer a big-picture view of the current state of media rights management and licensing for rights owners and users, how technology is changing the way... Read More
Deep Ghumman
Lillian Ruiz
Jarrod Dicker
Jesse Grushack
Christopher Kenneally
PRESENTATION: EVE SUSSMAN
Eve Sussman, Artist Eve Sussman Artist Spotlight Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, video, and installation. Sussman will present a preview of 89 seconds Atomized, a re-invention of her... Read More
Eve Sussman
11:15 am – 11:45 am
MORNING BREAK
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
EVENTS HALL
The Enumerated Manuscript: Unique IDs, Metadata and Registries
Machine-to-machine rights management requires machine-readable rights data. A look at how different media industries are tackling the challenge of assigning standardized, machine-readable identifiers and metadata to creative works, how those... Read More
Jacob Varghese
Daniel Doubrovkine
Michael Simon
Mario Pena
Maurice Russell
Staking a Claim: Authorship, Attribution, and Authentication
From photographs and paintings, to musical work sand poetry, the value of many types of creative works lies in their attribution and provenance. But the lack of reliable records of... Read More
Jessica Sobhraj
Robert Norton
Jackson Turner
Drew Waters
D.K. Smith
One of a Kind: Engineering Digital Scarcity with Blockchain
Digital technology did away with scarcity, upending many media industry business models. But the economics of scarcity may be poised for a comeback thanks to blockchain. This panel will explore... Read More
Stu Levy
Misha Libman
Mark Willis
Alex Bulkin
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY)
View From the Top: Copyright Reform in the U.S. and Europe
Copyright legislation in the U.S. and Europe is poised to bring the most sweeping changes in decades to how media content is distributed, licensed, and used. Industry leaders, policymakers and... Read More
Sarah Howes
Ben McEwen
Alisa Coleman
Keith Kupferschmid
Adrienne Fields
Fireside Chat with Merck Mercuridias and Nile Rodgers of Hipgnosis
Fireside Chat with Merck Mercuridias and Nile Rodgers of Hipgnosis Merck Mercuridias, CEO, Founder, & Managing Partner, Hipgnosis Songs Ltd Nile Rodgers, Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Songwriter, Musician, and Singer INTERVIEWER: Robert... Read More
Merck Mercuriadis
Nile Rodgers
Robert Levine
Mixes, Mashups and UGC
Many users of copyrighted works in mixes, mashups and user-generated content go uncounted and uncompensated. Others never happen because they can’t be licensed. This panel will explore how entrepreneurs and... Read More
JJ Rosen
Jonathan Skogmo
Rasty Turek
Chauncy Jackson
What’s it Worth? Investing in Rights and Royalties
Leaders from the worlds of finance, startups, and venture capital provide an overview of the M&A and investment climate for rights management companies, and discuss the valuation of rights and... Read More
Daniel Dewar
Pete Mathias
Virginie Berger
Sun Jen Yung
Show Me the Money: Bringing Transparency to Residuals and Royalty Payments
The music business has its notorious “black box” money problem, but creators and licensors in many rights-based industries lack effective tools to track the money their works generate as it... Read More
Danny Anders
Razi Rais
Cédric Cobban
Eugene Mopsik
Christopher Kenneally
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Classrooms A/B
DIY Tools and Financing for Artists
Artists and entrepreneurs discuss how technology is enabling creators to manage and finance their own careers and retain control of their work. PANELISTS: G. Thomas Esmay, Director of Business Development,... Read More
Rick Goetz
Cheryl Potts
Dae Bogan
Georgii Speakman
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
A.I.: What to Make of Machine-Made Art?
Courts say monkeys can’t own copyrights, but what about machines? As artificial intelligence systems increasingly are used to create music, photographs, news articles, and artworks, who or what owns the... Read More
Christopher Sprigman
Taishi Fukuyama
Ahmed Elgammal
Edward Klaris