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

[Eric Burger]

The big problem is finding the rights holders. It is very complicated because of assignment, divorce, giving the cook 1%, etc. It does not help that an email from the royalty clearing houses looks like a Nigerian 419 scam: we owe you $20,000, just send us your bank information and we will pay you what we owe. This data base is supposed to make it much easier for rights holders to get paid.


On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:

> 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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