This presentation was given by Royalty Claim's Founder and Chief Researcher, Dae Bogan, at the Music Industry Research Associations first inaugural MIRA Conference at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center on August 11th, 2017.
Music Publishing & Copyright Administration In The Internet AgeDae Bogan
The following presentation is from my lecture, "Music Publishing & Copyright Administration In The Internet Age" at the Independent Music Conference on October 25th, 2014 at SAE Institute in Los Angeles.
Conference Description: This workshop will cover basic music publishing and copyright administration from the perspective of a DIY independent artist. You will learn about self-publishing in the Internet age and takeaway resources for music placement, music licensing, and royalty collection around the world. Attendees should leave with an understanding of synchronization rights, mechanical rights, and performance rights in the United States.
An introduction to music publishing from the Songtrust team. Great for songwriters, music publishers, record labels, managers, or anyone interested in learning more about how music publishing works. In this presentation, you will find information about the different types of royalties, how they are collected, and what rights songwriters hold.
You can find more information about our digital publishing administration service on our web site: https://www.songtrust.com/
Business and contracts in the recording and music publishing industryThis account is closed
Want to learn more about business and contracts in the recording and music publishing industry? In this presentation originally delivered as part of the Media and Copyright Issues Panel at the 2014 IPIC McGill Copyright Master Class, leading entertainment lawyer Susan Abramovitch provides a helpful overview of the business, including:
-Rights of the artist/songwriter
-Artist recording agreements – from term and territory to budget and royalties
-License agreements
-Pressing and distribution agreements
-Publishing agreements
-Income splits
-Income from compositions
-360 deals
Legal issues within the music industry. Music Education Share. #TNM The New Movement Inc. Share's vital information with indie artists. www.thenewmovement.com Contact Us 1-888-
Music Publishing & Copyright Administration In The Internet AgeDae Bogan
The following presentation is from my lecture, "Music Publishing & Copyright Administration In The Internet Age" at the Independent Music Conference on October 25th, 2014 at SAE Institute in Los Angeles.
Conference Description: This workshop will cover basic music publishing and copyright administration from the perspective of a DIY independent artist. You will learn about self-publishing in the Internet age and takeaway resources for music placement, music licensing, and royalty collection around the world. Attendees should leave with an understanding of synchronization rights, mechanical rights, and performance rights in the United States.
An introduction to music publishing from the Songtrust team. Great for songwriters, music publishers, record labels, managers, or anyone interested in learning more about how music publishing works. In this presentation, you will find information about the different types of royalties, how they are collected, and what rights songwriters hold.
You can find more information about our digital publishing administration service on our web site: https://www.songtrust.com/
Business and contracts in the recording and music publishing industryThis account is closed
Want to learn more about business and contracts in the recording and music publishing industry? In this presentation originally delivered as part of the Media and Copyright Issues Panel at the 2014 IPIC McGill Copyright Master Class, leading entertainment lawyer Susan Abramovitch provides a helpful overview of the business, including:
-Rights of the artist/songwriter
-Artist recording agreements – from term and territory to budget and royalties
-License agreements
-Pressing and distribution agreements
-Publishing agreements
-Income splits
-Income from compositions
-360 deals
Legal issues within the music industry. Music Education Share. #TNM The New Movement Inc. Share's vital information with indie artists. www.thenewmovement.com Contact Us 1-888-
During Music Biz 2015 in Nashville, Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office, discussed important legislation surrounding
copyrights, including proposed changes to the U.S. Copyright Act and the recently reintroduced Songwriter Equity Act.
During Music Biz 2015 in Nashville, Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office, discussed important legislation surrounding
copyrights, including proposed changes to the U.S. Copyright Act and the recently reintroduced Songwriter Equity Act.
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'Notes On The US "Performance Rights Act" Proposal And The International Pers...Grant Goddard
Notes on the proposal in the US for 'Performance Rights Act' legislation and the international implications, written by Grant Goddard In January 2010 for RadioCentre.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
2. What is the
“Black Box”?
Answer’ish:
A black box is an escrow fund in which music
royalties are held due to an organization’s inability
to attribute the royalties earned to the
appropriate payee.
3. Black boxes materialize for many reasons, including
but not limited to: the inability to identify rights
holders despite payments made for the use of their
compositions; the lengthy time required for filing
domestic and ultimately international copyrights,
often begun only when a recording is actually
released; multiple claims for the same rights
exceeding 100% of ownership, resulting in indefinite
disputes; international collaborations with less than
all creators asserting their rights; international legal
inconsistencies regarding what type of performances
result in payments (most visible in the fact that
[terrestrial] radio play does not generate royalties for
recording artists in the United States); and the slow
and often manual processes to report usage and clear
payments under international reciprocal agreements.
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Sellin, Derek & Seppälä, Timo (6.2.2017). “Digital Music Industry – Background Synthesis”. ETLA Working Papers No 48.
http://pub.etla.fi/ETLA-Working-Papers-48.pdf (Page 7 - Interview with Dae Bogan)
Generally...
4. EXAMPLE 1: General Licenses
Thousands of businesses, restaurants, coffee shops,
malls/shopping centers, bars and nightclubs, colleges and
universities, etc. pay license fees for blanket public
performance licenses from US PROs to play the PRO’s full
catalog of compositions without reporting back to the PRO
the specific compositions performed.
License Fees
General License and grant
of right to PRO’s full catalog
Unattributed blanket license
royalties are technically black box
until the royalties are distributed
based on unfair market share
distributions that often disregard
emerging and legacy artists.
5. EXAMPLE 2: Unattributed cash advances paid to music
companies.
DSP pays Label an advance.
Label gives DSP access to its catalog.
DSP provides Label usage reports
Label attributes usage to its
artists and pays artists based on
their record agreement.
When the DSP
agreement expires, the
unattributed portion of the
advance is retained by
the Label.
6. United States
Collection
Societies
EXAMPLE 3: International consequence of United
States’ limits on sound recording rights
Composition
Royalties
Foreign Local
Artist
Sound Recording royalties for US artists and copyright owners enter
the black boxes of Foreign Collection Societies because the US does
not recognize a public performance right in sound recordings.*
Foreign
Collection
Society
Foreign Radio
Broadcaster
License fees for
Compositions
License fees for
Sound Recordings
Composition
Royalties
Composition
Royalties
Sound Recording
Royalties
US Artist
*The US does recognize a digital performance right in sound recordings and through SoundExchange, royalties are collected for this type of use.
US Artist Sound
Recording Royalties
7. $?????????
The collective Global Black Box has been estimated to be
valued between $1 billion and $3 billion with as much as $100
million in streaming mechanical royalties trapped in the black
boxes of various interactive streaming services.
8. Speaking of Streaming Services...
...a review of mass filings of “address unknown”
Section 115 NOIs
9. Quick Background:
● Interactive streaming services generally obtain sound recordings from record labels,
distributors, and aggregators.
● Often, the metadata received by services include track and release information (artist and
label), but omit information regarding the underlying composition (publishers and
songwriters; copyright owners)
● US copyright law requires a service to obtain licenses for both the master sound
recording (obtained from label/distributor/aggregator) and the underlying composition
(difficult to obtain if copyright owner(s) are unknown).
● The Copyright Act provides a provision -- Section 115 -- for obtaining a compulsory
mechanical license in the event a prospective licensee cannot locate the copyright owner.
● In 2016 the Copyright Office implemented a solution and guidance for electronically filing
Notice of Intentions (NOIs) under the Section 115 provision for the purpose of obtaining
the compulsory license.
● As a result interactive services have mass filed millions of “address unknown” or
“copyright owner unknown” NOIs on the Copyright Office that must be discovered by the
copyright owners in order for the copyright owner to unlock mechanical royalties that
may become due to them from the interactive service.
10. Section 115 NOI Mass Filing Stats - Licensees
● Amazon Digital Services LLC
● Audio & Video Labs, Inc. (Sound Drop /
CD Baby)
● CMH Records Inc.
● Google, Inc.
● Guvera USA, Inc.
● iHeartCommunications, Inc.
● Microsoft Corporation
● Muzak, LLC
● Pandora Media, Inc.
● PK Interactive LLC (DistroKid)
● re:discover, Inc. (Loudr)
● Real Gone Music, LLC
● Spotify USA Inc.
● The OverFlow.com, Inc
● The Recording Academy
Only 15 digital music services have
utilized the mass filing method.
11. Section 115 NOI Mass Filing Stats - Usage
“Digital music services paid the US
Copyright Office $1,842,719 to
file 16,066,073 NOIs in the first
half of 2017.” - Dae Bogan, Royalty Claim
12. Section 115 NOI Mass Filing Stats - Royalties
“The deferred mechanical royalty
obligation for one stream per NOI
would be about $3k for
ad-supported and $10k for
premium.” - Dae Bogan, Royalty Claim
23. Next...
● Tackle International Black Boxes - There are hundreds of unattributed royalties Black
Boxes around the world. Capturing data from the source will empower DIY musicians and
rightsholders to go after their entitlements.
● Quantify Unclaimed Royalty Funds - Calculate marketplace/consumption data and
reported royalty rates to forecast the true value of payee-identified, but unclaimed
royalty funds (or encourage fund administrators to provide this data).
● “Connect” more partners to Royalty Claim to provide efficiency and transparency to
copyright owners.