SXSW 2025

No Benefit to Unclaimed Royalties: Fix Metadata, Get Paid

Description:

It’s 2025. We have AI, VR, online and mobile banking, and all the technology that we can dream of at our fingertips. And yet, rightsholders are missing out on millions of dollars due to technicalities. Haunting the music industry for decades, royalties keep falling into the black box, missing out on millions of Neighbouring Rights and other unclaimed royalties, all because of bad data. How can we fix this? Is it as simple as making sure all metadata is filled out properly by the rightsholder at the point of entry in the distribution process? Can AI usher in a new age of more efficiency?

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Takeaways

  1. What are the different responsibilities when it comes to accurate royalty payouts? (rightsholder, publisher, policymakers)
  2. Often overlooked: Don’t forget about Neighboring Rights!
  3. While generative AI is feared by the creative industries to harm artists, can AI and Machine Learning clean up the metadata mess?

Speakers

  • Jacob Varghese, Founder and Director, Noctil
  • Andrew Karis, Managing Administrator, ACTRA RACS
  • Third speaker to be confirmed Third speaker to be confirmed, Director, ABRAMUS

Organizer

Dominic Athanassiou, PR Consultant, 3nation

Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Music Industry
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate
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