UNCLAIMED ROYALTIES STUDY KICKOFF SYMPOSIUM DECEMBER 6, 2019 • 9:15 AM – 6:00 PM (CHECK IN 8:30 AM) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS • MADISON BUILDING • MONTPELIER ROOM (6TH FLOOR) WASHINGTON, DC UNCLAIMED ROYALTIES STUDY KICKOFF SYMPOSIUM The schedule below represents the Copyright Office’s best estimate of the times required for each panel. Schedules may be adjusted slightly if necessitated during the course of the symposium, but panels will not begin earlier than scheduled. To ensure that panels start close to the scheduled times, participants should arrive at least thirty minutes before their scheduled panel. Please note that space is limited. Observers are welcome but will be seated on a first come, first served basis. Friday, December 6, 2019 8:30 – 9:15 Event Registration James Madison Memorial Building Montpelier Room, (6th Floor) LM619 9:15 – 9:20 Welcome from Register of Copyrights Karyn A. Temple 9:25 – 10:10 Update and Perspectives from the Mechanical Licensing Collective (“MLC”) and Digital Licensee Coordinator (“DLC”) Copyright Office Moderator:Regan Smith MLC Representatives: DLC Representatives: Alisa Coleman Garrett Levin Richard Thompson Lisa Selden 10:15 – 11:30 Session 1: Creating Comprehensive Databases – Past, Present, and Future The MLC will create a new, public musical works database to link sound recordings with their underlying musical works. In doing so, it follows past and current initiatives to facilitate authoritative and comprehensive databases regarding the identity and ownership of musical works embodied in sound recordings. This panel will discuss these past and current efforts, as well as accepted practices in the creation and use of data exchange formats and protocols to make the data exchange more efficient across the music industry. Copyright Office Moderator:Anna Chauvet Panelists: Michel Allain (WIPO) Mark Isherwood (DDEX) Nicole d’Avis (Open Music Initiative) John Simson David Hughes (RIAA) 11:30 – 1:00 Lunch Break (on your own) UNCLAIMED ROYALTIES STUDY KICKOFF SYMPOSIUM 1:00 – 1:45 Artist Focus Creators will provide their perspectives on the significance of the MMA, the importance of being properly credited and their contributions properly identified so they can be accurately paid for their work, and the roles songwriters, artists and producers can play in this effort. Panelists: Ivan Barias Alex Delicata Rosanne Cash Erin McAnally 1:50 – 3:15 Session 2: Matching Musical Works to Sound Recordings and Measuring Success Critical to reducing the incidence of unclaimed royalties is identifying the sound recordings played on digital services, matching them to their underlying musical compositions, and identifying and locating the copyright owners of these musical works. This panel will discuss current methods and perspectives on this important task, including the role of technology, how success can be measured, and existing challenges. Copyright Office Moderator:Jason Sloan Panelists: Ed Arrow (Universal Music Publishing Group) Ali Lieberman (SoundExchange) Terry Boissonneault (SOCAN/Dataclef) Vickie Nauman (CrossBorderWorks) Bill Colitre (MRI) John Raso (Harry Fox Agency) Jay Gress (Sony Music Entertainment) Sarah Rosenbaum (Google) 3:15 – 3:40 Coffee Break (provided by the Copyright Office) 3:40 – 5:00 Session 3: Messaging to Creators To reduce the incidence of unclaimed royalties, the MLC must encourage musical work copyright owners to claim their royalties and facilitate more accurate metadata. This panel will offer perspectives on the most effective ways to communicate to creators. Discussion will include experiences connecting with a broad array of creators and the role digital engagement plays in this messaging initiative. Copyright Office Moderator:John Riley Panelists: Linda Bloss-Baum (SoundExchange) Kevin Erickson (Future of Music Coalition) Dae Bogan (TuneRegistry) Kimberly Tignor (IIPSJ) Todd Dupler (Recording Academy) Jennifer Turnbow (NSAI) Mark Eisenberg (SoundCloud) 5:00 – 6:00 Audience Participation Observers may sign up at the symposium to comment on topics discussed during earlier panels or raise and discuss other pertinent issues (limited availability). UNCLAIMED ROYALTIES STUDY KICKOFF SYMPOSIUM Biographies DLC Representatives MLC Representatives Garrett Levin Alisa Coleman Garrett Levin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Alisa Coleman was unanimously Media Association (DiMA)—the leading elected the first Chair of the Board of organization advocating for the digital Directors of the Mechanical Licensing music innovations that have created Collective. Alisa is also Chief Operating unparalleled consumer choice and Officer of ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., revolutionized the way music fans and artists connect. overseeing the day-to-day operations Garrett’s broad experience at the center of music licensing as well as the business development and global licensing issues has earned him a reputation as one of the foremost of the music publishing, record, and film catalogs for one of copyright policy minds working in Washington today. the foremost independent entertainment companies in the Prior to joining DiMA, Garrett served as Senior Vice world. A strong advocate for indie companies, Alisa is also President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual the President of the New York Chapter of the Association of Property Law and Policy at the National Association of Independent Music Publishers (“AIMP”), and was vital in the Broadcasters (NAB). At NAB, Garrett was the point person creation of the Indie Music Publishing Summit in NYC, which for local radio and television broadcasters’ efforts on all entering its fourth year in 2020 has expanded to become the copyright-related policy and legal issues, including the historic Global Music Publishing Summit. Alisa is also on the Board of passage of the Music Modernization Act. the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”), and a Before joining NAB, Garrett was senior counsel to Senate member of NARAS, AIGA, NYWIFT, CMA, CSUSA, the National Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Arts Club; and a lifetime member of the Songwriters Hall of where he provided policy advice on IP, telecommunications, Fame. In 2019, Billboard named Alisa to its Top Indie Players antitrust and consumer protection issues. He also previously and Top Digital Players List. served as an international and domestic copyright policy attorney at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as well as a litigator at Jenner & Block specializing in digital copyright Richard Thompson issues, including extensive practice before the Copyright Royalty Board. Richard Thompson is the CIO for the Garrett graduated with a B.F.A. in Film and Television Mechanical Licensing Collective (“MLC”). Production from New York University. He holds a J.D., magna Richard is a pioneer in the development cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, as well as an and implementation of technology M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke. for music rights management, serving as the CTO of Kobalt Music Group for 17 years, from startup to the company’s position as one Lisa Selden of the major music publishing companies. He was also the former Chair of the global music international music Ms. Selden is a digital media metadata standards group DDEX for nearly a decade, and executive with deep publishing expertise, was particularly involved in the area of mechanical rights. and serves as the Global Head of Richard’s broad expertise is at work as the MLC implements Publisher Operations for Spotify. She is the first statutory blanket licensing system for mechanical responsible for ensuring publishers get rights in the U.S., which will process billions of dollars in paid quickly and accurately. Ms. Selden royalties from digital streaming services and pay them out to works with a combination of operations teams at publishers, songwriters and music publishers around the world. The MLC multiple vendors / back offices and internal Spotify staff to is also tasked with maintaining a publicly-accessible database improve matching and copyright accuracy. Ms. Selden also of songs for reviewing rights ownership and claiming of oversees the roadmap and development for Spotify publishing unmatched royalties. systems. Prior to joining Spotify in July 2018, Ms. Selden was UNCLAIMED ROYALTIES STUDY KICKOFF SYMPOSIUM the Senior Vice President, Digital Operations and Head of between authors, publishers, and CMOs (CISAC X-industry Songwize, ASCAP’s administration business. She processed U.S. initiative). Prior to joining WIPO, Allain was the deputy CEO streaming performing royalties for Amazon, Apple, Pandora of ST-Groupe, an IT Company active in Copyright solutions. At and YouTube. Ms. Selden also launched ASCAP’s first ever WIPO, his major responsibility is WIPO Connect, a state of the claiming deal on YouTube’s claiming platform. In addition, she art software solution facilitating copyright and related rights led the data collaboration with BMI, which entailed a deep management. dive analysis and comparison of musical works copyright metadata, data and business rules and policies and practices in order to build an implementation roadmap. Earlier in her Nicole d’Avis career, Ms. Selden served as Senior Vice President, Strategy, Operations and Business Development in the digital group at Nicole d’Avis is the Senior Director Viacom’s music brands (MTV, VH1 and CMT) for eleven years. of Berklee’s Institute for Creative She licensed music videos and other music rights for Viacom’s Entrepreneurship