With this notice of proposed rulemaking, the Office concludes that it has received a sufficient petition to renew each existing exemption, and it does not find any meaningful opposition to renewal. Accordingly, the Office intends to recommend readoption of all existing exemptions.
October, 2017
Announcing RightsTech@DEW
We’re pleased to announce the official dates for the next RightsTech@DEW conference. The event will be held on February 5 and 6, 2018, at the Marina Del Rey Marriott in Los Angeles as part of Digital Media Wire’s Digital Entertainment World expo.
The RightsTech Project will host a dedicated track of panels, presentations, and keynotes on each day of the expo, while attendees will enjoy access to the entire two-day expo, including tracks on movies and television, games and interactive entertainment, brands and advertising, VR and AR, and more.
Topics in the RightsTech track will include:
- The future of machine-readable rights
- Solving music’s black-box data problem
- Hollywood and blockchain
- Alternative financing models for artists and creators
- Rights, derivative works, and user-generated content
- Artificial intelligence
- Metadata
- Registration and authentication
- Valuing rights and royalties
- and more
For information on how to register click here. For RightsTech speaking opportunities contact Paul Sweeting at [email protected]. For sponsorship opportunities contact Andrea Elliott at [email protected]. For all other inquiries contact Tinzar Sherman at [email protected].
The Esports Industry Is Booming — Can Blockchain Supercharge It?
There are several ways new blockchain ventures like Esports.com (a decentralized, blockchain-based esports community) or Network Units (a blockchain-controlled multiplayer infrastructure and integration that can turn any game into an esport) are bringing blockchain and esports together.
Source: The Esports Industry Is Booming — Can Blockchain Supercharge It?
Musicians group launches ad campaign against Google, YouTube
The Content Creators Coalition (c3), which advocates on behalf of musicians, is launching an ad campaign against YouTube and its parent company Google, accusing them of exploiting artists.
Source: Musicians group launches ad campaign against Google, YouTube | TheHill
Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror
Shelley AI is currently working on a different short scary tale once an hour leading up to Halloween. It’s powered by deep learning algorithms that have been trained on stories collected from the subreddit /r/nosleep where people share their own original eerie works.
Source: Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror | New Scientist
YouTube music videos will count less in a hit song’s chart success
In its September music consumption report (pdf), the IFPI found 85% of YouTube users, or 1.3 billion, have gone there to listen to music for free just in the past month. The music industry is livid.
Source: YouTube music videos will count less in a hit song’s chart success — Quartz
Life after NAFTA: Why no deal may free Canada on intellectual property policy
A world without NAFTA would unquestionably be a shock to the economic system, but it would also free the government to establish made-in-Canada IP policies that better reflect domestic values and use international standards as the baseline rather than U.S. demands.
Source: Life after NAFTA: Why no deal may free Canada on intellectual property policy – The Globe and Mail
IBM’s Watson Beat: who owns music made by a machine?
We’ve seen IBM’s Watson politely annihilate humans in Jeopardy, make a movie trailer for Morgan, create never-before-eaten recipes and even understand nuance and tone… to say the least. Now it’s moving on to music.
Source: IBM’s Watson Beat: who owns music made by a machine?
Sacem Finds Partner to Help Track Royalties for EDM Artists, Rights Holders
French authors’ rights society Sacem has partnered with music identification company DJ Monitor to better improve accuracy in tracking royalties of electronic music played in nightclubs, live events and festivals.
Source: Sacem Finds Partner to Help Track Royalties for EDM Artists, Rights Holders | Billboard
NMPA Chief on Music Licensing: ‘The Value of the Song Is More Important Than the Process’
The National Music Publishers Assn., the Digital Media Assn. and various songwriter and record label groups are negotiating legislation that they hope will solve the mechanical licensing problems that have plagued digital music services,