DMLA 2018 CONFERENCE October 21 — 23 Marina del Rey Marriott Marina del Rey Welcome to the 23nd Annual DMLA Conference at the Marriott Marina del Rey!
The Forum for Connectivity, Advocacy and Education
Hello California!
We are happy to be back after an absence of almost a decade.
The Programme Committee under the leadership of Ophelia Chong, Rich Gell and our Executive Director, Cathy Aron, has assembled an impressive group of speakers ready to share their views and insights with you.
To kick things off, our Keynote speaker Chris Do, is an Emmy award winning director, designer and the founder and CEO of brand strategy design consultancy Blind. Chris will address a question that every evolving business needs to address – What win does your company need to reach that next level or to push to a new market?
The session topics reflect the evolution, or as some may say, the revolution, going on in our industry. Speakers will be sharing their views on some of the latest technology developments such as Blockchain, Machine Learning & AI, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality.
Our digital world has impacted content generation and distribution in a big way. Monetizing User Generated Content, access to and licensing of celebrity content, selling 3D content and motion graphics and the monetization of feature and newsreel outtakes will all be covered in the sessions.
To close off the Conference, Google will be here to share details of some of the developments in Google Image Search that will surely be of interest to us all.
Finally, without our sponsors it would be impossible for us to put on a Conference like this.
A big shout-out to our Platinum sponsors ImageRights International and SmartFrame who sponsored the Opening Reception and many other elements of this event.
Adobe continues their strong support of DMLA as our Gold sponsor and we truly appreciate their ongoing contributions to our association.
Once again, thanks to Capture, our Silver sponsor, we will be offering DMLA LIVE DAM where you were be able to upload your photo before the conference, allowing other attendees to put a face to a name to help them find you for meetings or networking opportunities.
Google, Grant Heilman Photography, PicRights, Shutterstock, WebPurify, WeMark and StockPot Images round out our long list of supportive companies.
We are grateful to them all!
Over the next few days we hope that you find the Conference informative and beneficial to your business.
As always, your feedback on things we can do better is most welcome.
Geoff Cannon, DMLA President, 2018-2020 DMLA 2018-2020 OFFICERS, COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND STAFF
President: Geoff Cannon , Masterfile Vice President: Leslie Hughes, iSpy Visuals Secretary: Candice Murray, Shutterstock Treasurer: Chris Carey, Minden Pictures Member At Large: Tawnya Crawford, Getty Images Member At Large: Rick Gell Member At Large: Julie Sloane, Science Source Images
COMMITTEE CHAIRS Finance: Ron Harvey, Everett Collection Legal: Amanda Perrot, Adobe Membership: Daniel Russelman, Universal Images Group Nominations & Elections: Sonia Wasco, Grant Heilman Photography Program: Ophelia Chong, Stock Pot Images Rick Gell, DMLA Board Technology: Joe Naylor, ImageRights International
STAFF Executive Director: Cathy Aron DMLA Counsel: Nancy Wolff, Esq., Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLC Technology Advisor: Doug Dawirs
This Conference could not be possible with out the outstanding work from the Conference Committee. A Special Thanks to each and every one of them:
Ophelia Chong, Co-Chairperson, Stock Pot Images Rick Gell, Co-Chairperson, DMLA Board Joe Naylor, ImageRights International Michael Goldberg, Celebrity Footage Mary Birman, GlaxoSmithKline Leslie Hughes, iSPY Visuals Andrea Stern, ASA Julie Sloane, Science Source Candice Murray, Shutterstock Sonia Wasco, Grant Heilman Photography
STAFF: Cathy Aron, DMLA Executive Director Doug Dawirs, DMLA Technical Advisor DMLA RECOGNIZES OUR DMLA CORPORATE SPONSORS FOR THEIR CONTINUING SUPPORT OF OUR ASSOCIATION:
20/20 Software A leading provider of websites and DAM enterprise software to picture libraries, museums, publishers and photographers worldwide. www.twensoft.com
Booking.com Part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodations online. www.booking.com
Capture Ltd The leading developer of fully integrated image management systems in the UK. They provide a total business solution to meet the needs of traditional picture libraries as well as the diverse, rapidly changing needs of today’s media. www.capture.co.uk
Higbee & Associates The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates provides a wide range of copyright related services designed to help creative professionals maximize their potential and protect their livelihood www.higbeeassociates.com
ImageRights International ImageRights International is spearheading the global fight against the infringement of copyrighted visual works by visual artists. imagerights.com
Microstocksolutions Microstocksolutions LLC is the leading provider of DAM agnostic still & motion review/ curation, large content ingestion (LCI), keywording, and asset management. www.microstocksolutions.com
Permission Machine Permission Machine uses its proprietary reverse search technology to identify and then ethically monetize copyright infringements for photographers and stock photo agencies. www.permissionmachine.com
Schneider Rothman IP Law Group SRIPLAW represents creators in litigation nationwide. We help artists and authors monetize their intellectual property. sriplaw.com
SmartFrame A patent-pending, secure, embeddable, trackable and interactive digital image format that seeks to redefine the digital image standard. smartframe.io
WebPurify WebPurify provides image and video moderation, categorization and metadata services that can be easily integrated in to your website or application. www.webpurify.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 — Marina del Rey Marriott, 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
7:00 PM DMLA OPENING NETWORKING RECEPTION Sponsored by: Bayview Ballroom
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 — Marina del Rey Marriott, 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
8:00 AM NETWORKING BREAKFAST Buffet Breakfast Bayview Ballroom
8:00 AM REGISTRATION OPENS Outside Sierra Ballroom
8:30 AM to EXHIBITS AND MEETING AREA Exhibits and meeting tables for exhibitors and Pacific 6:00 PM networking Ballroom
9:00 AM Geoff Cannon, DMLA President WELCOMING MESSAGE Sierra Ballroom
9:30 AM Chris Do, Founder/CEO, Blind. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Sierra Chris Do, advocates interdisciplinary knowledge of Ballroom design, business, education, entrepreneurship, and humanity. Chris has lectured all over the world about helping creatives become more business savvy.
What win does your company need to reach that next level or to push to a new market? New promotion? A big part of growing in this business- driven world is to learn how to negotiate.
10:45 AM Moderator: JoeNaylor, ImageRights BLOCKCHAIN — EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION? Sierra Panelists: Will blockchain drive massive new efficiencies in Ballroom • Arthur Chang, Priime your business systems and operations or cut you • Roy Meiron, Wemark out of the content distribution chain entirely as • Maria Kessler, Blockchain Evangelist it empowers content creators to conduct direct licensing transactions with buyers through the power of smart contracts?
12:00 PM David Singer, Story & Heart DRIVEN BY STORY, GUIDED BY HEART Sierra David Singer, Co-Founder of Story & Heart, a Ballroom strategic partner of Inmagine Group and 123RF, will discuss building filmmaker communities and how Story & Heart strategically fit into Inmagines’ growing “Creator Ecosystem”.
12:15 PM Networking Lunch BUFFET LUNCH AND NETWORKING Bayview Ballroom
2:00 PM Moderator: Paula Lumbard, Footage Bank THE STUDIOS — LICENSING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD Sierra Panelists: Licensing leaders at the big studios come together Ballroom • Sam Nouri, NBC Universal to discuss how monetization has evolved from • Allice Keating, Nat Geo Partners feature and newsreel outakes to the multi-layered, • Barb Siebertz, CBS Television media rights and merchandising world of today. • Roxanne Mayweather, Searchworks Sponsored by: 3:15 PM Victoria Hulett-Gross, VenusStock DMLA TALK: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: The Sierra opportunities of solo entrepreneurship in the stock Ballroom and beauty industry
Victoria Hulett-Gross of VenusStock will be speaking about the changes facing small stock agencies and the opportunities in licensing in a new media world, and how a small agency can be ahead of larger agencies in recognizing trends.
3:45 PM Moderator: Leslie Hughes, iSPY Visuals MACHINE LEARNING & AI — BEYOND THE HYPE Sierra Panelists: Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are Ballroom • Stephen Forte, Collar.Tech often touted as the ultimate drivers of digital • Lawrence Lazare, Pond5 transformation. Going beyond the hype in Artificial • Alex Reynolds, Shutterstock intelligence to explore what, why and how. • Seth Lytle, IBM Sponsored by:
5:00 PM Moderator: Chelsea Lauren, Shutterstock EVERYONE’S A PAPARAZZI, EVERYONE’S A STAR Sierra • Michael Goldberg, Celebrity Footage The celebrity shows, photographers, videographers Ballroom • Steve Kozak, Jimmy Kimmel Live and rights experts come together for a lively • Gail Perry, Getty Images conversation on celebrity and red carpet content, being a female photographer and the access, licensing and rights issues celeb creators face.
6:15 PM Moderators: BIG LICENSORS AND BIG DATA — HOW TO SURVIVE Sinder Ophelia Chong, Stock Pot Images AND THRIVE (patio) Rick Gell, DMLA Come share your opinions.”As licensors get bigger, and more data-driven, how do smaller licensors and independent content creators compete?”
This is a roundtable discussion with alcoholic beverages. Woot!
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7:15 PM
COCKTAIL RECEPTION Sponsored by:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 — Marina del Rey Marriott, 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
8:00 AM NETWORKING BREAKFAST Buffet Breakfast Bayview Ballroom
8:00 AM REGISTRATION OPENS Exhibits and meeting tables for exhibitors and Outside networking Sierra Ballroom
8:30 AM to EXHIBITS AND MEETING AREA Pacific 6:00 PM Ballroom 9:00 AM Tim Bigelow, Adobe Stock POWERING CONTENT VELOCITY WITH ADOBE Sierra Adobe is at the forefront of the intersection of Ballroom creativity and innovation, developing tools and technologies to help brands and creatives keep up with content velocity. Join Tim Bigelow, Business Development Manager at Adobe Stock, as he shares how technology can help streamline the process to creating engaging visual experiences, and showcases the latest innovations from Adobe – including machine learning and artificial intelligence (Adobe Sensei).
9:30 AM Presenters: CONVERTING UNAUTHORIZED ONLINE IMAGE Sierra • Rob Sewell, SmartFrame USE INTO AD REVENUE, HOW TO MONETIZE YOUR Ballroom • Joe Naylor, ImageRights CONTENT WHEREVER IT IS FOUND ONLINE SmartFrame and ImageRights have partnered together in order to generate a new annuity ad revenue stream for you from your infringed content.
The team will explain how SmartFrame technology integrated into the ImageRights copyright enforcement service enables you to convert all unauthorized uses of your content into an ongoing revenue stream for your business. SmartFrame tracks and monitors where and how your images are being used and then serves relevant and contextual advertisements within those images
10:00 AM Moderator: Leslie Hughes, iSPY Visuals OUR NEW DIGITAL REALITY — THE IMMERSIVE Sierra Panelists: TECHNOLOGIES OF AUGMENTED, VIRTUAL AND Ballroom • Jason Yeh, Massive Assembly MIXED REALITY • Revel Rosa, Phantom Vox Studios Join us as we learn about the new immersive • Tyler Gates, Brightline Interactive technologies of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality • Peter Schlosser, Ph. D., Cal Poly San Luis and Mixed Reality - what they are, what they will Obispo mean to brands, and how they will affect the future of content and content licensing.
11:15 AM Moderator: Amanda Perrot, Adobe HOT TOPICS IN LEGAL Sierra Panelists: Intellectual property legal experts discuss the Ballroom • Nancy Wolff, DMLA Counsel hottest topics facing the media licensing industry • Margaret Vincent, Stocksy today — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), • Lizanne Vaughn, Getty/iStock Framing, Small Claims, current cases in the courts, • Sejal Patel, Shutterstock DMLA’s updated Known Image Restriction List, and • Sylvie Fodor, CEPIC more!
12:30 PM Networking Lunch Bayview Ballroom
2:00 PM Moderator: Rick Gell, DMLA MONETIZING USER GENERATED CONTENT Sierra Panelists: UGC has exploded. We bring together leaders in Ballroom • Brendon Mulvihill, Jukin Media gaming, social media, YouTube and stock who are • Olga Egorsheva, Lobster shepherding a new generation of creators to discuss • William Finkel, Fullscreen licensing, distribution, rights and monetization of their content.
Sponsored by: 3:15 PM Mathieu Desoubeaux, IMATAG DMLA TALK: STATE OF IMAGE METADATA IN 2018 Sierra Is metadata still relevant to inform images of their Ballroom source, context, and rights? At a time plagued by fake news and rampant infringement, metadata remains the most accurate and reliable method to inform images of their origin, rights, and authority.
3:45 PM Moderator:Robin Prybil, Bullseye Media THE CHALLENGE OF SELLING MOTION GRAPHICS Sierra Partners AND 3D Ballroom Panelists: Worldwide leaders in 3D and Motion Graphics •Avtandil Chachibaia, Sketchfab licensing discuss the technological, rights, pricing •Matt Wisdon, Turbosquid and delivery challenges in this fast-growing content •Dalia Lasaite, CGTrader vertical.
5:00 PM Anna Dickson, Google A MORE VISUAL FUTURE Sierra On its 20th anniversary last month, Google Ballroom announced several new updates to Search, including new innovations in Google Images. Come listen to Anna Dickson, Photo Lead, Content & Community at Google, talk about these changes and how Google is thinking about a more visual future.
6:00 PM Cocktail Reception Sponsored by: Sierra Ballroom
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PLATINUM SPONSORS
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GOLD SPONSOR SILVER SPONSOR
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2017 DMLA CONFERENCE SPONSORS 2018 SPEAKERS
Tim Bigelow Senior Business Development Manager, Adobe Stock
Tim Bigelow runs global strategic development for Adobe Stock’s enterprise business. A long-time content licensing professional and self-proclaimed IP geek, Tim previously held positions at Sony Music, Getty Images and Corbis. He is passionate about helping members of the global creative community monetize their work. At Adobe, Tim does so by setting up multi-national businesses to efficiently build their visual identities and streamline creative workflows through Adobe Stock’s native integration with Creative Cloud.
Tim likes music, whiskey, hiking and his family; not in that order and not necessarily all at the same time.
Avtandil Chachibaia Head of Content Licensing, Sketchfab
Avtandil Chachibaia is an award-winning filmmaker and media expert with a decade-long experience in media and technology. He currently leads the Sketchfab Store for licensing 3D assets to the global community of creators and brands. Previously he led content acquisitions and partnership efforts at Pond5 and produced multimedia content for brands like NBC, Cosmopolitan and others.
Arthur Chang CEO and co-founder of Priime
Arthur Chang is the CEO of Priime, co-founding the company in 2014, which is backed by Y Combinator, Sherpalo Ventures, Initialized Capital, and more. Along with his startup experience as a technical co-founder, Arthur worked as a commercial photographer and creative producer over his 14 years taking photos.
Ophelia Chong Founder of Stock Pot Images, Co-Chair Program Conference Committee
Ophelia Chong is the founder of Stock Pot Images and Asian Americans for Cannabis Education (AACE). She is driven to help shape the new conversation of Cannabis and is guided by one mission: to advocate for the legalization of cannabis and offer truthful reflections of the faces and communities that embrace cannabis.
As well as StockPot Images, Ophelia is the Creative Consultant at PUSH Magazine the target audience is millennial women in cannabis. She is also the Community Outreach liaison for THC Design, one of the top premium cannabis growers in CA, she is responsible for LGBT, Veterans, Women, Minorities and Disabled outreach.
As an artist, her work has been published by Harper Collins, Gestalten (3 books) and other major publishers of books and magazines. Her latest collage work was commissioned by Simon & Schuster and will debut in the Fall of 2017.
Her career path has been formed by her 2 decades in photography, as a creative director in publishing, published artist and gallerist, entertainment and as an adjunct professor in education at Art Center College of Design; her path is non-ending because she believes that we all have at least five careers in our lifetimes. Mathieu Desoubeaux CEO, Co-founder, Imatag
Mathieu is the co-founder and CEO of Imatag. He started his career ten years ago as an engineer in content identification technologies at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science). Mathieu completed his Ph.D. at the Orange group where he worked on video watermarking and content protection. In parallel, he developed a personal passion for photography which led him to cofound IMATAG.
Anna Dickson Image Lead, Google
As Image Lead at Google, Anna Dickson’s focus is to create compelling, visual, user experiences. Her goal is to bring high quality, relevant imagery to products by managing a team of imagery experts that work closely along side product teams to develop scalable strategies around image usage.
Prior to Google, Dickson led Photography teams at The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and IHeartRadio. At each position, she collaborated with product teams to build infrastructures to support direct access to imagery allowing for faster posting of content. Dickson’s interests lie in the changing imagery landscape, our understanding of imagery, how we organize it and how we utilize it to communicate worldwide.
Chris Do Founder and CEO of Blind
Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, strategist, lecturer consultant, and entrepreneur.
He has spent the last two decades running Santa Monica-based, motion-design and branding agency, Blind. His team has worked on TV commercials and music videos for iconic brands such as: Nike, Xbox, Fox Sports, Electronic Arts, Scion, Cold Play, The Gap, NatGeo, Sony, and Honda.
Having taught sequential and main title design for over 15 years at the Art Center College of Design, Chris decided to scale his teaching efforts and founded the Futur, an online content and education platform. He has produced over 600 YouTube videos on subjects such as: design, branding, business and UX, and has gained an audience of 340k subscribers from all over the globe.
He currently serves as the chairman of the board for SPJA (Society to Promote Japanese Animation), and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has also served as: advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.
His firm’s work has been recognized by national and international organizations such as: the Emmy’s, Effie Gold, Effie, Huffington Post, Lynda.com, Webbie, Communication Arts, London International Awards, One Show and many more. Olga Egorsheva CEO Lobster Media
Olga’s first taste of entrepreneurship came via a family photography business that she founded with her father back in 2005. She then broadened her expertise by working across a diverse array of European Cities.
Following an MBA involving hands-on corporate entrepreneurship experience, she settled in London with the ambition to disrupt the content search and licensing field forever. Joining forces with two co-founders, the new venture called LOBSTER was announced to the world from the stages of TechCrunch Europe. Olga’s current attentions are deeply focused on investing every effort into the team, the community and raising industry awareness.
William Finkel Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at Fullscreen
William Finkel is the Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at Fullscreen in New York City. William manages all legal functions for the New York office and Fullscreen’s marketing group, including negotiating Influencer deals on behalf of clients such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Mattel, P&G, AT&T, and WPP. Prior to his time at Fullscreen, William was with Platinum Rye Entertainment, a Talent procurement agency owned by Omnicom.
Sylvie Fodor CEPIC Executive Director
Sylvie is CEPIC‘s Executive Director, a European trade organisation representing 600 picture agencies in 20 countries. She started her career in the picture business at AKG in Berlin, Germany, where she gained first-hand experience in the management of historical picture archives and the clearing of images rights. Sylvie is in charge of CEPIC policies at European level, focusing on the protection of visual content online in a fair online environment. She was council member at ICOMP between 2009 and 2015 and the Chair of its IPR working group from 2012. Sylvie holds a degree in political sciences from Sciences Po Paris as well as a degree in international and European law from the Sorbonne University. Sylvie is French and lives in Berlin, Germany, with her family.
Stephen Forte CEO & Chief Strategist, Collar Tech, Inc
Stephen Forte lived in China for 10 years, and is a software architect and entrepreneur, with a special focus on artificial intelligence and computer vision. Mr. Forte is an expert in mobile apps and software with 28 patents filed with 14 awarded, and has deep insight into Asia tech.
Mr. Forte has founded and exited multiple tech startups, been CEO of public and private companies, managed operations in 63 countries, and led P&Ls from startups to over $1 billion. Mr. Forte has also held many leadership roles in YPO, and is currently of the YPO Gold Santa Monica Bay chapter.
Tyler Gates Principal, Brightline Interactive
Tyler is the President of the VR/AR Association, DC Chapter and Managing Principal at Brightline Interactive, an award-winning creative technology agency. He is a visionary for the applications of VR/AR technology for enterprise and branding solutions. He is an expert in transforming client needs into tangible concepts and ideas through the use of VR/AR technology for customer projects ranging from training and simulations for government agencies to virtual autographs for major sporting facilities. Tyler speaks nationwide to promote the utilization of VR and AR technology. Rick Gell Program Co-Chair for DMLA 2018 Conference and writer
Rick Gell is a DMLA Board Member and Co-chair of this year’s DMLA Conference. He writes on media issues for publications like Salon and was recently a Strategic Consultant for Scop.io and Head of Content for Pond5.
Rick was Founder and President of Second Line Search, Action Sports Adventure and Hot Shots, Cools Cuts, which upon sale to Corbis began their rights and clearances division and Corbis Motion. Rick was also publisher and Editor in Chief or Footage: The Worldwide Moving Image Sourcebook, a 1,300 page guide to 3,000 moving image sources worldwide.
Michael Goldberg President and Founder, CelebrityFootage
Michael Goldberg is the president and founder of CelebrityFootage. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1998. Michael began his career as a breaking news video journalist and transitioned into red carpet event coverage in 1995.
His company, CelebrityFootage, covers all the major red carpet events including The Academy Awards, Grammy Awards and The Costume Institute Gala. His video library has over 42 thousand clips from 1987 to present day available for immediate high res downloading at CelebrityFootage.com. Michael and his team enjoy working with many of the leading news and entertainment publishers for television, mobile and social media.
Victoria Hulett Gross Creative Director and CEO of Venus Stock and Venus Motion
Victoria is the Creative Director and CEO of Venus Stock and Venus Motion. She is a content producer with 20+ years experience specializing in high-end photography, Beauty and Celebrity syndication, branded content and video. Her agency partners with high profile brands to create impactful content through high quality imagery, thoughtful design and consumer messaging. Venus Stock is based in Los Angeles, with a focus in wellness, healthcare, medical marketing, brand campaign and package design.
Leslie Hughes Founder of iSPY Visuals and DMLA Vice President
Leslie Hughes career bridges creativity, content and technology. Hughes is the founder of iSPY Visuals, a search aggregation tool and workspace, which is quickly becoming the starting place for creative professionals looking for visual content. She is a strategic advisor to VisualSteam which provides digital acquisition and marketing services, and regularly consults on digital media, marketing and sales.
Hughes has a long history in the photography business having been President of Corbis Images, Group CEO of ImageState, and head of WW Sales for The Image Bank. Hughes currently sits on the Board of Directors for DMLA and is the organization’s Vice President. Alice Keating Senior VP, National Geographic Photography Business Strategy
As the Senior Vice President of National Geographic Photography Business Strategy, Alice Keating oversees the Nat Geo Image Collection. The Image Collection is a stand-alone resource under the Nat Geo brand that provides professional buyers and internal teams with photography, videos and talent. Alice’s team manages fine art photography sales through National Geographic Fine Art Galleries, editorial and commercial stock licensing, photography and video licensing partnerships, and custom commercial assignments. She manages the personal brands of and represents most of National Geographic’s top visual story tellers, including Ami Vitale, David Guttenfelder, Joel Sartore, Rena Effendi and Cristina Mittermeier. Previous clients include Samsung, Google, Canon, DuPont, HSBC, Toyota, Ford, Microsoft, Apple.
Prior to her 20+ years at National Geographic, she worked in other visual collections including the Library of Congress, the Salvation Army, the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History and the National Gallery of Art.
Maria Kessler Photo Industry Veteran & Blockchain Evangelist
Maria is a veteran of stock photography companies such as FPG International, Dynamic Graphics, and Jupiterimages. Maria also held various positions, as well as a term as president of PACA, now known as Digital Media Licensing Association (DMLA). After leaving stock photography, Maria helped launch ImageRights International before moving onto working in media partnerships with Consumer Reports. For the past handful of years Maria has syndicated article packages as well as video for and to large media organizations. Today, as a blockchain evangelist, Maria has been providing presentations and organizing panels to educate and discuss the benefits and adoption of blockchain solutions for photography and other digital media.
Steve Kozak Elements Producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Founder AMCUP
Experienced content producer with a proven history of working for top-tier television shows. Reputable professional with strong creative skills with 20+ years of licensing experience. Skilled in research and content licensing, news gathering, as well as story and field production. Top in his field in not only finding compelling unique content, but more important -- securing it actually getting aired to the chagrin of attorneys and showrunners. Founder of 400+ member AMCUP organization, with a Bachelors focused in Broadcast Journalism from California State University-Northridge.
Dalia Lašaité Co-Founder & CEO of CGTrader
Dalia Lašaité, a serial entrepreneur, joined the company as a co-founder in 2013 following the first funding round by Practica Capital. In May 2016, the Hundert, a Berlin-based startup publication, named Dalia Lasaite as one of Top 100 European female entrepreneurs. Dalia holds BSc degree in Economics and Business Administration, and MSc degree in Finance. Dalia co-founded two startups in Europe and the USA prior joining CGTrader.
CGTrader is one of the leading stock 3D model marketplaces globally with over 1.5M users and 700k models for film, animation, architectural visualization, AR/VR/game development and more. Individuals and business customers can choose from a wide collection of high-quality free and premium 3D models, and use them in commercial projects decreasing project development time and reducing content creation costs 5-10x. CGTrader gives talented 3D designers the opportunity to showcase their work, get valuable feedback from the community, learn from their peers and interact in a designer-friendly environment. The platform allows designers to directly communicate with their customers and earn the highest royalties (up to 80%) in the market.
Chelsea Lauren Staff Photographer, Shutterstock
Chelsea Lauren began her photography career in early 2008 and quickly became a contributing photographer for Getty Images, WireImage and Filmmagic. She remained there for 7 years.
Her career to date includes numerous high-profile events, including New York Fashion Week, Sundance, Toronto Film Festival, The Grammys, the Emmy Awards and more. Chelsea has earned a reputation for her ability to gain trust with and put talent at ease, resulting in her capturing some very special moments. Chelsea joined Shutterstock in September 2015, as the first west coast staff photographer to help establish Shutterstock’s new editorial division at the time. Chelsea is one of the most esteemed female photographers in Hollywood snapping highly coveted shots at each event.
Lawrence Lazare Sr. Director of Product Management at Pond5
With more than 20 years of experience developing e-commerce websites, Lawrence Lazare is currently the Sr. Director of Product Management at Pond5 where he is responsible for search and the buyer experience. In recent years, his focus has been on using AI and Machine Learning to enable users to locate the right media content with ease and speed.
Prior to joining Pond5, Lawrence was the Director of Search at Shutterstock and was head of product for Thomson Reuters’ engineering division. In addition to his work in the technology field, Lawrence has a fine art photography practice and shows his work at galleries and museums throughout the U.S.
Dan Lion Vice President of Sales for TurboSquid
Dan Lion is the Vice President of Sales for TurboSquid, the marketplace for 3D digital content. Before joining TurboSquid, Dan held sales and management positions for companies including Autodesk, Kodak and Technicolor.
In 2005 Dan co-founded Creative Bridge, then a leading-edge mobile post production company designed to supplant the traditional film lab as Cinematographers began to experiment with new high-resolution digital cameras. Creative Bridge was purchased by Technicolor in 2007 and became Technicolor’s On-Location Services Division for feature and broadcast projects.
Dan rejoined TurboSquid in 2014 and is responsible for Enterprise Sales for the Company. Dan also oversees licensing for enterprise customers, as well as corporate licensing for Brands including Ford, GM and USPS.
Dan is a native New Orleanian now living in Pasadena, CA. Paula Lumbard President, Footage Bank
Paula Lumbard has been in the footage licensing business for over 25 years, and FootageBank is her second footage company. With FootageBank, Paula chose to specialize in large format native digital content, and was the first footage to offer high definition clips for licensing. Several years ago Paula made the decision to have FootageBank specialize in fully released clips including professional sports, a robust playback library, and locations where people live, work and play. FootageBank primarily serves the scripted programming marketplace and has just launched a self-service website designed and built by the FootageBank team lead by Vice President Carol Martin. The new e-commerce website proudly offers a 4K library of thousands of new released clips.
Paula is a member of the advisory board of AMCUP, the Association of Content Users and Producers.
Seth Lytle Sr. Consultant Technology & Strategic Alliances, IBM
Seth Lytle has journeyed both tech and business roles at small and large organizations – and even built and grew his own art-related iPhone App company in 2012. During his tenure at Silverpop and now IBM, he has been known externally for his main-stage keynote product demos at the annual customer conference, Amplify.
With a passion for delivering customer experiences that uncover new areas for business value, Seth both leads the partnership with Shutterstock at IBM and also advises on the strategy for how other premier partners integrate with the IBM Watson Customer Engagement business. Seth holds an MS of Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Central Florida and a BS of Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Seth is married to his best friend, Tracy, and is the proud father of 3 daughters and 1 son. He plays the bass guitar and also loves to travel, hike, snowboard, cook and host events for neighbors and friends.
Roxanne Mayweather Partner in SearchWorks
Roxanne is one of the most respected stock footage research and intellectual property rights and clearance professionals in the business. Regularly interfacing with film libraries, archives and independent suppliers worldwide she has a solid grasp of the details and requirements of identifying clearances resources, creatively sourcing hard-to -ind images and managing the requisite clearances. Roxanne has formidable knowledge of film, video and digital formats.
Founded in 1992, by Roxanne Mayweather and Suzanne Shelton, SearchWorks provides research and intellectual property clearance for projects in the entertainment and cultural sectors. SearchWorks works closely with producers, directors, editors, art departments, legal departments, and estate representatives, to find and clear film and video footage, photos, fine art images, published text; music and or lyrics for use in large and small projects. Additionally, Search Works supplies fact checking and historical accuracy research services for screenwriters, producers and feature film art departments and regularly secures talent and celebrity permissions for use in an array of projects.
SearchWorks clients include feature film and TV production companies, The Smithsonian Museum, The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, major advertising agencies, music video creators, museums, Broadway stage plays, and interactive game producers worldwide. Roy Meirom Co-founder of Wemark
Roy is a serial entrepreneur and one of Wemark’s co-founders, leading the company’s strategic partnerships and business development endeavors. Prior to Wemark, he founded Cameo, a unique image marketplace focusing on the media and entertainment industry and ISCA Academic Program, one of Israel’s largest scholarship programs aimed at eliminating and educating against online racism and hate speech.
Roy is a fellow at the Zvi Meitar Institute for Emerging Technology, where he had lectured and researched the ethical and regulatory impact of disruptive innovation, including neuro-prosthetics, autonomous vehicles and of course - blockchain technology. He holds an Honors LL.B. degree in law and a B.A. in business administration from IDC Herzliya and is a graduate of the prestigious Sam Zell Entrepreneurship Program.
Brendon Mulvihill SVP and Head of Licensing at Jukin Media
Brendon Mulvihill is SVP, Head of Licensing at Jukin Media, overseeing the company’s global content licensing business. Prior to joining Jukin, Brendon started the content licensing business at GoPro and led the Los Angeles office of Wazee Digital (formerly T3Media) where he licensed content on behalf of Sony Pictures, Paramount, and the NCAA among other media and sports content libraries. Brendon has also held sales and business development positions at Octagon and Idealab. Brendon has a BBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Joe Naylor President and CEO of ImageRights International
Joe Naylor is the President and CEO of ImageRights International, the global leader in copyright enforcement services for photo agencies and professional photographers. Joe’s career spans more than twenty years in the design, development, operations, sales, and marketing of communications and internet- based services at eFax.com, j2 Global Communications, and WebMessenger. Joe holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.Joe is currently serving as Chairman of the Digital Media Licensing Association’s Technical Committee.
Sam Nouri Senior Director, Media Licensing and Digital, Universal Pictures’ Brand Development
Sam Nouri is the Senior Director, Media Licensing and Digital for Universal Pictures’ Brand Development team and is responsible for leading Universal Pictures’ worldwide media and digital media licensing and AVOD monetization initiatives. Sam oversees licensing partnerships to make short-form content, clips, still images, characters, and other elements from Universal Pictures’ theatrical, franchise, and catalog properties available to audiences across broadcast, corporate non-broadcast, advertising, and digital media. During his 11 year tenure at Universal, Sam has negotiated and managed numerous innovative licensing partnerships with leading digital platforms, video networks, social networks, messaging platforms, gaming companies, film and television studios and producers, and advertising agencies, generating nearly 20 billion views and impressions annually.
Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Sam worked as an Offering Management Associate at film slate financing fund Go To Film Fund, a Summer Graduate Associate in International Marketing and New Technologies at The Walt Disney Studios, and Director of Technology for emerging arts and entertainment events company Gen Art.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School. Sejal Patel Assistant General Counsel, Shutterstock
Sejal Patel is Assistant General Counsel - IP & Litigation at Shutterstock, Inc., and manages Shutterstock’s intellectual property programs, enforcement programs and litigation. She has been at Shutterstock since 2012 and has extensive insight into the evolution and maturation of the stock content space, with a focus on intellectual property rights.
Amanda Perrot Senior Legal Counsel, Adobe
Amanda Perrot is a senior attorney at Adobe managing the legal team that provides legal support to Adobe Stock. Amanda has worked at Adobe for over 12 years multiple key products at Adobe, including Adobe Acrobat (now Document Cloud) and Adobe Flash Player. Prior to joining Adobe, Amanda was an attorney in the Technology Transactions Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for 5 years.
Gail Perry IP Attorney at Getty
Gail Perry is an attorney based in Los Angeles, who has specialized in IP and entertainment law for several decades. Gail has been a member of the global legal team at Getty Images for over 10 years, and provides her legal support and business affairs expertise to both the sales and assignment teams, with a focus on Getty Images’ role as a global leader in the creation and distribution of editorial entertainment content.
Robin Prybil Bullseye Media Partners
Robin began her career at Creative Artists Agency, where she worked in the music division before being recruited to the literary department and the Creative Group, where she pitched ideas to clients and served as a liaison to female-led production companies around town.
Pursuant to that, Robin was brought on as Director of Development for producers Jon & Christine Peters at Columbia, before joining legendary producer Robert Evans as Vice-President of Production. During her ten years there, Robin was promoted to Executive Vice-President, overseeing all aspects of development, and production from physical through post and marketing. Her credits include: The Phantom, Jade, The Saint, and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
In 2003, Robin was hired by Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital in New Zealand, to help raise that company’s profile and make their services and facilities feasible as an ongoing endeavor. Despite multiple Oscar wins for Lord of the Rings, industry perception was that Weta was too far away and thus not cost-effective for Hollywood films. Utilizing her vast studio relationships, Robin was instrumental in bringing in high-end productions that helped turn the company into a brand-name success story, which grew eight-fold during her tenure there.
Among the projects she helped bring in were Jim Cameron’s groundbreaking 3D film AVATAR, Fox’s successful reboot of Planet of the Apes, and two films with Steven Spielberg, Adventures of Tin-Tin and The BFG. Additionally, Robin served as Visual Effects Executive on films including: XMEN: First Class, The Avengers, Prometheus, Man of Steel, The Hobbit Trilogies, Fast 7, Jungle Book, and Pete’s Dragon.
Given her background in virtual production and visual effects, it was only natural that Robin has more recently segued into virtual reality and emerging technologies. Alex Reynolds General Manager of Shutterstock’s Platform Solutions
Alex is the General Manager of Shutterstock’s Platform Solutions business, focused on API, SDK, and plug- in integrations. He started his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company, working on M&A and growth strategy. From there, Alex joined Peek and “wore many hats” as the travel start-up grew from 15 employees to 100+. He spent 4 years as Director of Business Development at YP and Shutterstock, building successful product partnerships with over 100 companies, including Uber, Apple, Google, and Snapchat. Alex earned a BBA from Emory University and graduated with high distinction.
Revel Rosa Lead Artist, Phantom Vox Studios
Revel Rosa is a Concept Artist and recent graduate from ArtCenter College of Design’s Entertainment Design Department. He specializes in creature/character design as well as world building and storytelling. Revel considers himself a huge nerd with experience using Vive in gaming and storyboarding. Most recently, he is working towards incorporating Virtual Reality into his concepts using only photoshop to allow those who don’t own a VR headset or software to still enjoy creating art for VR.
Peter Schlosser Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Peter Schlosser is an experienced professor and practitioner in graphic communications and communication technologies. He has a background in business, management, photography, and technological innovation including augmented reality, with a knack for looking over the next hill, both geographically and by industry. Peter is an accomplished speaker, educator, and mentor with professional interests in augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data visualization, and sustainability, with a bent toward Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Cyber Fraud thrown in.
Barb Siebertz Legal Clearance Administrator, CBS Television
Barb Siebertz, a veteran of the television business, worked in production for over 20 years, freelancing in animation as a production coordinator on “The Simpson Movie”, a script coordinator on various 1-hours dramas, including Fox’s acclaimed “24,” and as a Post Supervisor on “Homeland,” before joining CBS Television Studios. Since joining the Legal Clearance Department, she has overseen over 35 series and pilots, and currently covers “Bull”, “NCIS LA”, “Unbelievable”, “One Dollar”, “In The Dark”, “Charmed” and “Fam.” Her experience in production gives her a practical perspective on clearance issues, knowing productions don’t always understand the law, they just want to know what they can use.
Barb has also worked as a freelance writer, and written a young adult novel for Simon & Schuster. She also wrote briefly for television on the groundbreaking series “Dawson’s Creek.”
Rob Sewell CEO of SmartFrame Technologies
Rob Sewell has been a serial entrepreneur for 25 years, having set up his first business at the age of 17. Since then he’s gone on to successfully set up businesses in a variety of industry sectors including; music and entertainment, health and fitness, office supplies and mobile phones, and now leads SmartFrame Technologies forward as their CEO. Under Rob’s management the company has rapidly expanded from 3 to 30 FTE’s and growing with offices in London, Berlin and Krakow. He has successfully raised over £4m of funding and brought together some of the leading UK angel investors to support the business. David Singer CEO and co-founder of Story & Heart
All the early aptitude tests concluded; “David has a vivid imagination, extraordinary communication skills and a flair for the dramatic... he must, however, never operate on a human being or attempt any mechanical repair.” He began his career performing in live theater but reluctantly moved offstage and behind the scenes at the urging of his fellow actors. This is where David discovered his passion for directing and storytelling. After years of delivering winning concepts for corporate and commercial clients alike and working with artists such as Hans Zimmer, Seal, and Maroon 5, he learned the single indisputable fact about the advertising world; you just can’t beat craft services. He also realized that the future of storytelling was in helping other filmmakers tell stories that resonate, transform lives, and change the world. Story & Heart grew out of this desire for collaboration and love for a story well told. The company’s “story-driven” licensing platform allows agencies and producers the ability to leverage these stories to tell their own, with even more depth and authenticity.
Not one to forget his humble beginnings, David will demonstrate a triple-time-step on demand and perform at Karaoke bars in adjacent states.
Lizanne Vaughan VP and Corporate Counsel for Getty Images
Lizanne Vaughan is a champion for the world’s best photographers. As Vice President, Corporate Counsel for Getty Images, Lizanne is a strong advocate for our award-winning photojournalists, and all of Getty Images’ photographers, providing critical advice on first amendment issues and protecting their rights as the head of the global IP enforcement and claims team. Her passion for issues of justice and equality fuels her partnership with the business on issues of diversity and inclusion. Leading a legal team working at the forefront of developing new licensing models for intellectual property, Lizanne also oversees risk management and serves as counsel for the company on debt, finance, employment and other compliance matters.
Margaret Vincent Senior Counsel, Stocksy
Margaret Vincent has been a part of Stocksy since its earliest days in 2013, starting as a contributing artist before moving into her role as Senior Counsel. With a background in photography, customer service, and law, Margaret brings a unique perspective to her role as counsel and advisor to Stocksy’s co-op community.
Nancy Wolff Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP and DMLA Counsel
Nancy E. Wolff is a partner of the Intellectual property, media and entertainment law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP located in New York, New York and Beverly Hills, CA. She represents a wide range of creative individuals and companies in all areas of digital media, licensing and publishing and serves as counsel to the Digital Media Licensing Organization. Ms. Wolff is a frequent speaker on copyright, digital media, and licensing for many organizations. She is the Immediate Past-President of the Copyright Society of the USA, and serves on the ABA Copyright Reform Task Force.
Ms. Wolff was selected for inclusion in Chambers USA (2017), IP: Trademark & Copyright – New York. She has also been named to the Super Lawyers Intellectual Property (New York Metro) , Top 50 Female Lawyers (New York Metro) and Top 100 Lawyers (New York Metro) lists. Jason Yeh Partner / Creative Director at Massive Assembly Inc.
Jason Yeh is an award winning designer and co-founder of Massive Assembly Inc., where he is the creative director.
Jason’s research position at Samsung resulted in patents and products in the fields of mixed reality, wearable computing, and mobile user experience. He has a number of successful case studies in crowdfunding, most notably Commodity Fragrances.
Prior to forming Massive Assembly, Mr. Yeh worked at Samsung’s top research team as a design strategist, Ferroconcrete as a brand strategist, Use All Five as an art director, and motion designer at broadcast design firm National Television. He worked under Kyle Cooper of Prologue on main titles and VFX for games / films such as Moneyball, Battleship, and Splinter Cell.
He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Graphics/Motion.
In Memoriam:
We recognize the loss in 2018 of several people in our industry who contributed significantly to DMLA:
Woodfin “Woody” Camp Anita Duncan Ellen Kasemeier Herbert Roger Ressmeyer
We also recognize the recent and tragic passing of Scott Braut. In his role at Adobe, Scott played an important part in our last few conferences. His engaging smile and enthusiasm for the digital medial world will be missed.