The Price of Rights: Will the Deals Keep Coming?
The pandemic-driven streaming surge, coupled with record low interest rates and fiscal stimulus helped fuel a half decade of explosive growth in rights-based asset trading,... Read More
Metadata: Right, from the Start
From music to movies to books and podcasts, metadata makes the digital world go ‘round. But bad or missing data can quickly knock it off... Read More
Featured Presentation: Music in Podcasts: Definitions, Data Flows and Dollar Signs
Niels Rump of the DDEX Secretariat will present a newly released white paper meant to spark discussion toward creating a data reporting framework that could... Read More
Bringing New Life to Old Catalog
From new search and discovery tools to synthetic voice production and sonic analysis, discover how artificial intelligence and other new technologies are helping rights owners... Read More
Web3, VR, and the Metaverse: Rights and Licensing for Immersive Applications
From virtual concerts to virtual reality, new technologies are enabling new, immersive experiences, and creating new use cases for music, video and other intellectual property.... Read More
Podcasts and Audio Originals: The New IP Incubators
TV schedules and streaming libraries are filling up with series based on podcasts. Hollywood stars and hitmaking music artists are signing deals to create original... Read More
Keynote Conversation: The Future of Collective Rights Management, Royalty Collections and Payments
A conversation with Eric Baptiste, CEO of QwantumRights Solutions, former CEO of SOCAN and former director general of CISAC. Drawing on his 30 years of... Read More
NFTs, Rights and Royalties
There is more to NFTs than bored apes and digital collectibles. Artists, musicians and other creators are turning to crypto tokens to fund new projects,... Read More
Turning Copyrights into Cash: Trends in Rights-based Finance
Investors continue to pour money into music publishing catalogs and other rights-based assets, but is selling out the only way for authors and artists to... Read More
Building a Better Payment Pipeline for Royalties and Residuals
The path from a user clicking ‘play’ to a rights owner, creator or investor getting paid can be long and winding, and often difficult to... Read More