[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: WIPO First Outreach on the International Music Registry

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Marcin,

I asked Jim Griffin for a response to your query and he gave me this:

This isn't about identifying works, as the codes are, it is about making
> available more broadly the rights information from around the world such
> that entrepreneurs and others seeking to license music can do so.



>
> That is not to say the effort does not encourage or even require the
> further
> spread of the codes used to identify sound recordings, songs and those with
> an interest in them. It does. Such identifiers are the pillars upon which
> rights information, cultural information, history, performers, background
> singers and other information resides.



>
> But it is to say this wholly different, and not a money registration grab.
> Far more money is spent in this absence of this information trying to
> locate
> rights holders for permission and payment, trying to identify performers
> for
> the same and for proper attribution, and so on.



>
> It is about using technology for what it does best, pairing people who need
> information with the information they need, and doing it for a category of
> content much esteemed on the net: Music.



>
> It is certainly not a first come, first serve registration for money
> opportunity. It is likely more about resolving conflicts and engaging in
> dispute resolution to find the true owners and administrators in each
> territory such that commerce and attribution are made simpler. Registries
> are more likely libraries, and libraries are more like registries, and both
> are very different from ICANN and domain registration. Proper music
> registries are about sorting out claims to what has already been made, not
> filing claims on new names for new things from which others will profit.


joly


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> > A single, authoritative source of information about rights in music is
> > a universal and essential good for the development of a healthy
> > digital market for creative content.  To achieve this goal the World
> > Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is providing technical and
> > administrative support to the International Music Registry (IMR)
> > Dialogue <http://www.internationalmusicregistry.org/portal/en/index.html
> >,
> > which engages stakeholders from all sectors of the music industry and
> > all regions in the world.  The IMR is global in nature and intends not
> > to rival any existing copyright infrastructure but to establish a
> > system that will enhance existing databases and identifiers and act as
> > a platform for their interoperability.
>
> Interesting, looks like:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Musical_Work_Code
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRC (actually supported on CDs!)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Release_Identifier
>
> are not enough... Somebody looking for more money on registration,
> ICANN-style?
>
> //Marcin
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