2019 RightsTech Europe Agenda
2019 RIGHTSTECH EUROPE AGENDA
*Schedule and speakers are subject to change
Day 1
09 Sep 2019
Day 2
10 Sep 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm-1:15 pm
Welcome & Opening Remarks
PRESENTERS: Paul Sweeting, CEO, Concurrent Media, Editor & Co-Chair, RightsTech Ned Sherman, Counsel/Director, Manatt Digital, Founder, Digital Media Wire
Paul Sweeting
Ned Sherman
1:15 pm-2:00 pm
Toward A Global View Of Rights
Like most forms of commerce today, the business of buying, selling, and licensing of rights is increasingly a global enterprise. But global commerce requires global intelligence. What is needed to... Read More
Mick Hayes
Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell
2:00 pm-2:15 pm
2:15 pm-3:00 pm
The Enumerated Manuscript: Turning Names Into Numbers
Accurately and unambiguously identifying individual creative works and their attributes is critical to tracking their usage and availability on digital platforms. From metadata standards to globally unique identifiers, how are... Read More
Sylvain Piat
Mark Isherwood
Paul Jessop
3:00 pm-3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm-4:15 pm
What’s it Worth? Investing in Rights and Royalties
From securitized royalty streams to rights-tech M&A, rights an rights management are attracting growing interest from investors. What’s driving it? Which sectors are attracting capital? Can rights and royalties become... Read More
Céline Moille
Rana DiOrio
4:15 pm-4:45 pm
4:45 pm-5:30 pm
Follow the Money: Improving Transparency Into Usage Data, Earnings, and Royalty Payments for Copyrighted Works
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
Nermina Mumic
5:30 pm-6:30 pm
Reception
9:15 am-10:00 am
Copyright In The Digital Market
Assessing the impact of the EU Copyright Directive, in Europe and beyond PANELISTS: Matthias Hornschuh, Composer, GEMA Board member Jessica Sänger, Director for European and International Affairs, Börsenverein des Deutschen... Read More
Jessica Sänger
10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 10:45 am
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Networking Break
11:15 am-12:00 pm
The Future Of Collective Rights Management
What is the future of collective rights management and CMOs in an era of multi-territorial licensing and growing demands for transparency and privacy? PANELISTS: Wolfgang Senges, Strategies, Innovation & Project... Read More
Wolfgang Senges
12:00 pm-12:45 pm
Provenance, Authentication & Registration
From cloud computing to blockchain, technology is making it easier to register authorship and ownership, and to track the provenance and authenticity of creative works and collectibles. How and where... Read More
Mario Pena
12:45 pm-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm-2:45 pm
Panel: Publishing On The Blockchain
Blockchain is a hot topic in the worlds of music, fine arts, and collectibles, but the publishing business has just begun to explore its possibilities. What could blockchain do for... Read More
Kirsten Sandberg
Sebastian Posth
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Automated Licensing and Online Marketplaces
Global distribution platforms, user-generated content and new copyright rules are fueling a need for faster, more scalable systems for securing and clearing rights. How are rights holders responding? How much... Read More
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Networking Break
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Panel: Managing Open Access
From scholarly and scientific research to museum collectives and archives the open-access movement is transforming how many types of information is published and made available. But “open access” can mean... Read More
4:45 pm-5:30 pm
What to Make Of Machine-Made Art
From painting to music and journalism works created all or in part by algorithm are increasingly entering the stream of commerce. But who (or what) is their author? Who is... Read More
5:30 pm -6:30 pm