Data

Largely unregulated, the flow of bits and bytes helped fuel the rise of transnational megacompanies like Google and Amazon and reshaped global communications, commerce, entertainment and media. Now the era of open borders for data is ending. France, Austria, South Africa and more than 50 other countries are accelerating efforts to control the digital information produced by their citizens, government agencies and corporations.

Source: The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending

The Session platform uses standard industry identifiers in a single location and makes sending metadata downstream to rights holders and other relevant participants a more straightforward process. Session is embedded within digital audio workstations (DAWs) to capture authoritative song information and data at the point of creation.

Source: Session Wants to Solve the Music Metadata Mess

Built by VEVA Sound, VEVA Collect compiles all creator credits and their associated audio assets to ensure fair compensation to everyone working on a recording. Using exported DDEX RIN files from VEVA Collect with user-stored contributor credits, SoundExchange can retrieve and store this data to create performer lineups for a given recording.

Source: VEVA Sound and SoundExchange Announce New Partnership

The persistent identifier or PID uses what’s known as the Handle System and Rosetta to give an object or an intellectual property persistent identification across a range of platforms and context, much as the ISBN “follows” the title it identifies through multiple scenarios, functions, and databases.

Source: Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Identifier Specialist Ringgold

For years, the music industry has whispered about the dangers of fraudulent streams, which boost some artists’ play counts and skew royalty payouts. This activity takes place covertly — often hidden with technical measures, such as bot networks — so it has been hard to get a sense of the scale of the problem, let alone what might be done to address it.

Source: Just How Pervasive Is Streaming Fraud?

Various projects — such as the Global Repertoire Database (GRD) and the Open Music Initiative (OMI) — have attempted over the years to create a more collaborative data culture across the business, but most have not been able to get enough buy-in from enterprise-level companies to fulfill that vision.

Source: ‘If the music industry wants to continue its exponential growth, its data backbone needs to become significantly more efficient.’

With advertising comes the need to let advertisers know whether they’re getting their money’s worth. Which means sharing data — something that the streaming world as a whole and Netflix specifically hasn’t been keen on doing. “In the ad world … one of the requirements is some level of transparency and third-party auditing and reporting,” says Jim Lombard, CEO of connected TV ad marketplace Tetra TV. “[Netflix has] been slow to reveal that stuff.”

Source: Netflix’s Advertising Dilemma: Will Partners Get Any More Transparency?

Although the internet has transformed the way we read it, the overall system for how we publish science remains largely unchanged. We still have scientific papers; we still send them off to peer reviewers; we still have editors who give the ultimate thumbs up or down as to whether a paper is published in their journal.

Source: The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper?

Tech companies have been the subject of sustained criticism in recent years for lax approaches to data protection, content moderation, user safety and impacts on mental health. And their moves into the metaverse appear to be sparking many of those same fears in the public, a Morning Consult survey found, with many U.S. adults also concerned about the cost of the technology and its effects on their physical well-being.

Source: Nothing Concerns the Public More About the Metaverse Than the Misuse of Their Personal Data