Please Vote For My SXSW Panel Idea
For the past two years, I’ve been mentoring music and music tech entrepreneurs at SXSW. From music app founders to indie bands to artist managers, I’ve given my time to provide advice and guidance to awesome people working to improve their careers or businesses.
Over the last year, I’ve focused a great deal of my time on the issues surrounding rights and metadata in the music industry. My research and work has culminated in the launch of my startup, TuneRegistry, which enables music creators and rights-holders to manage their music catalogs and register their rights and metadata all in one place. We believe that by empowering music creators with a tool to organize accurate metadata and streamline the rights registrations processes, the music industry as a whole will be better accountable to artists and writers.
This summer I had the honor of teaching a course at the UCLA Music Innovation Summer Institute on the music tech business. During the program, I curated and moderated a panel on rights and metadata and invited representatives from Music Reports, Crunch Digital, BuzzAngle Music, and the co-founder of TuneRegistry to speak on the challenges we’re seeing in the digital music space. The panel went so well that I was encouraged to submit the panel to SXSW.
I am happy to say that the panel, along with the original speakers — Bill Colitre (Music Reports), Keith Bernstein (Crunch Digital), Jim Lidestri (BuzzAngle Music), and Jesse Morris, Esq. (TuneRegistry) — is up for consideration for SXSW 2017.
Please take a moment to check out the panel idea, comment, and vote at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/62361.
TuneRegistry – Music Catalog for Artists, Labels, and Publishers
My team has spent over a year building a platform that will help independent music creators simplify their careers. It’s called TuneRegistry and today we open to the public!
Execs From TuneRegistry, Music Reports, Crunch Digital, And BuzzAngle Music To Co-Panel Discussion On Music Rights & Metadata At UCLA
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Center for Music Innovation presents an evening panel “The Significance of Rights and Metadata in the Evolving Digital Music Ecosystem.”
As the music industry continues to be shaped and advanced by digital innovations, stakeholders face new and unforeseen business challenges. From rights holders to music licensees, data has become significantly more important to the accrual, collection, and distribution of royalties to income participants. This panel will discuss the issues relating to music rights and metadata in the digital music age and evaluate some of the ways in which these issues are being addressed by companies, music creators, and collective societies in the United States and abroad.
When: Thursday, July 7th at 6pm
Where: UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Panelists:
Jesse Morris, Morris Music Law/TuneRegistry
Bill Colitre, Music Reports
Keith Bernstein, Crunch Digital
Jim Lidestri, BuzzAngle/Border City Media
Moderator: Dae Bogan, TuneRegistry; Lecturer, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Register for free at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-significance-of-rights-and-metadata-in-the-evolving-digital-music-ecosystem-tickets-25898722777
Breaking Bread, Giving Bread Crumbs: The Challenge Facing Beyoncé, Drake, And 150 Other People
Between Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Drake’s “Views” albums, there are over 150 writers and producers credited across their combined 32 tracks.
I can only imagine the music compensation nightmare that will ensue over the next 12 months as streaming, DPD, and airplay royalty checks start to go out to the multi-national team of creators and rights holders.
Who is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of rights holder information across all tracks? Who is checking that digital music services have complete metadata to match sound recordings to their underlying compositions? Who is accounting to the background vocalists and session musicians?
Did every producer and engineer secure letter of directions from Beyoncé and Drake to properly claim a portion of Pandora payouts? Who is looking after the contributors who do not have multinational publishers? Will they capture their piece of neighboring rights, DART royalties, or Spotify mechanicals?
Who will lose out due to inefficiencies? Who will have money left on the table due to an inability to properly claim and collect?
These are the questions that we ask ourselves at TuneRegistry and why we’ve built the next-generation music rights & metadata management platform to empower creators and rights holders.
Lukas Graham And Digital Music’s New Fan Conversion Funnel
Screenshot of Lukas Graham’s self-titled debut album cover art posted on Lukas Graham’s Facebook page; accompanied by the comments section.
The image featured above is a screenshot of a post on recording artist Lukas Graham‘s Facebook page. This blog entry is about the idea of the Digital Music’s New Fan Conversion Funnel as illustrated by a comment posted in the comments section by Lukas Graham fan, Stacy Angus.
But first, a quick crash course on conversion funnels.
[Podcast] My Interview About Music Data On UCLA Center for Music Innovation’s “Innovating Music” Podcast
I had the honor of being a guest on UCLA Center for Music Innovation’s “Innovating Music” podcast where I talked about music rights and meta data, which is the epitome of our work at TuneRegistry. Check out my episode, “Life as a ‘Data Nerd’: Dancing with Music Data.”
The podcast can be found and followed at http://musicinnovation.libsyn.com/, as well as at the following podcast sites:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/innovating-music/id1107854634
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I5b6f4qdhfugvkpv5aopo6istga
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/fullcast/innovating-music
Grammy Winning Engineers Launch Digital Mastering Service For DIY Musicians, eMastered
Using an intelligent mastering engine built from analyzing thousands of hit songs, eMastered gives musicians an easy and affordable way to master tracks from the comfort of their own homes.
Grammy Award-winning engineer Smith Carlson and hit EDM singer/producer Collin McLoughlin announce the launch of eMastered, an online tool redefining the way musicians approach audio mastering. eMastered enables users to instantly master recordings online, making what is traditionally a complex and expensive process much more simple, affordable, and accessible to musicians worldwide.
[FREE Event] Southern California Music Industry Professionals Music Industry Mixer
It’s been years since I’ve hosted a public event of any kind in Los Angeles, so I’m excited that my come back is an event that is completely on-brand and meaningful to me:
S.C.M.I.P. | Southern California Music Industry Professionals
Music Industry Mixer | An evening of mingling and networking with musicians, songwriters, producers, and business professionals from across Southern California hosted by Dae Bogan.
Date & Time: April 26th, 2016 | 6pm to 9pm
Location: Now Boarding | 7746 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood
RSVP at www.SCMIP.eventbrite.com
#MusicBusinessMonday: Session Musicians
Session Musicians: Quality music starts with talented musicians. Your mastery of instruments, performance, and sometimes improvisation can make the difference between a recording that’s just Ok and a recording that’s a masterpiece, so your skills should not go unrewarded.
Did you know that session musicians and background vocalists may be entitled to royalties when the recordings on which they’ve performed are played on digital services such as Pandora, SiriusXM, Music Choice, and thousands of Internet webcasters?
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