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

[Joly MacFie]

Further to this:

Provisional program:
http://www.internationalmusicregistry.org/export/sites/imr/portal/en/pdf/provprogram_24_04_2012.pdf

and a scoping study:
http://www.internationalmusicregistry.org/export/sites/imr/portal/en/pdf/imr_scoping_study.pdf


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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> Attendees to the Global INET might want to extend their visit by one day
> to attend this...
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> http://www.internationalmusicregistry.org/portal/en/news/2012/news_0003.html
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> WIPO First Outreach on the International Music Registry (IMR) for
> Users in Geneva, April 24, 2012
>
>  The growth of the Internet as a delivery mechanism for music over the
> last decade has challenged the music rights management architecture.
> The need to make it faster, easier, and simpler to find who owns what
> rights in music has become increasingly important, not just in the
> developed countries, but throughout the world and points to the need
> for an international system that ‘ties together’ the different
> rights-management systems currently in use in different countries.
>
> 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.
>
> With this vision, a recent Study on the Role and Functions of the
> International Music Registry
> <
> http://www.internationalmusicregistry.org/portal/en/news/2012/news_0002.html
> >
>  identified a number of functions that can be undertaken at the
> international level with the support of WIPO to achieve the objective
> of an effective copyright infrastructure in the digital era.  A series
> of IMR dialogues has been launched to look at different alternatives
> and to seek greater involvement of right owners and users from all
> regions of the world.
>
> In the context of this, WIPO is organizing the first IMR briefing for
> users at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, on Tuesday April 24, 2012.
> The meeting will serve to showcase developments in this initiative as
> well as to discuss the modalities of possible involvement of users in
> the future.   Participation is opened to users.
>
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