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JOIN US OCTOBER 5, 2018 FOR THE 5TH ANNUAL NY MEDIA FESTIVAL!

From movies and music to publishing, photography, and the fine arts the annual RightsTech Summit in New York City brings together a unique cross-section of artists, engineers, rights owners, entrepreneurs, and investors from all corners of the media industries to discover and discuss the latest innovations in the management and monetization of media rights. From metadata standards and rights registries to the blockchain, content identification, licensing strategies, and machine learning, RightsTech is the commerce of art.

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2018 SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Adrienne Fields

Director of Legal Affairs,
Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Alex Bulkin

Co-Founder & Chief Alchemist,
CoinFund

Alisa Coleman

Chief Operating Officer,
ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.

Amelia Wang Binder

Vice President,
Government and Industry Affairs,
NMPA

Cédric Cobban

President & Founder,
PeerTracks Inc.

Christopher Kenneally

Senior Director, Content Marketing,
Copyright Clearance Center

Christopher Sprigman

Professor,
New York University School of Law
Co-Director,
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy

Dae Bogan

Head of Third Party Partnerships,
Mechanical Licensing Collective

Eugene Mopsik

CEO,
American Society for Collective Rights Licensing (ASCRL)

JJ Rosen

EVP of Music Strategy & Industry Relations,
Splice

Lillian Ruiz

COO & Co-Founder,
Civil Media Company

Mark Willis

Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer,
Texel

Maurice Russell

CEO & Founder,
Media Rights Management

Merck Mercuriadis

CEO, Founder, & Managing Partner,
Hipgnosis Songs Ltd.

Michael Simon

President, Rumblefish;
President & CEO, Harry Fox Agency LLC

Misha Libman

Co-Founder & Head of Product,
Snark.art

Nile Rodgers

Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Songwriter, Musician, and Singer

Pete Mathias

Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program,
Bertelsmann

Razi Rais

Subject Matter Expert (Blockchain),
Microsoft

Sarah Howes

Director & Counsel, Government & Public Policy,
Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television & Radio Artists

Stu Levy

Founder,
TOKYOPOP, POP Comics, POP Crypto

Sun Jen Yung

Partner,
Head of Digital Media,
Nfluence Partners

2018 RIGHTS TECH SUMMIT Agenda

Day 1

05 Oct 2018

8:30 am - 9:30 am

REGISTRATION

9:30 am – 9:40 am

EVENTS HALL

WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

9:45 am - 10:10 am

EVENTS HALL

Pete Mathias

OPENING PRESENTATIONS & FIRESIDE CHAT: RIGHTSTECH SUMMIT

PRESENTERS: Pete Mathias, Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, Bertelsmann Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell, CEO & Co-Founder, JAAK Pete Mathias & Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell Topic: Pioneering Music Blockchain Pilot: Learnings & Application For The Wider IP...
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Pete Mathias

10:10 am - 10:50 am

EVENTS HALL

Deep Ghumman
Lillian Ruiz
Jarrod Dicker
Jesse Grushack
Christopher Kenneally

VIEW FROM THE TOP: CRYPTO, CODE AND COPYRIGHTS: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

Media and technology industry leaders offer a big-picture view of the current state of media rights management and licensing for rights owners and users, how technology is changing the way...
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Deep Ghumman

Lillian Ruiz

Jarrod Dicker

Jesse Grushack

Christopher Kenneally

10:50 am – 11:15 am

EVENTS HALL

Eve Sussman

PRESENTATION: EVE SUSSMAN

Eve Sussman, Artist Eve Sussman Artist Spotlight Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, video, and installation. Sussman will present a preview of 89 seconds Atomized, a re-invention of her...
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Eve Sussman

11:15 am – 11:45 am

MORNING BREAK

11:45 am - 12:15 pm

EVENTS HALL

Jacob Varghese
Daniel Doubrovkine
Michael Simon
Mario Pena
Maurice Russell

The Enumerated Manuscript: Unique IDs, Metadata and Registries

Machine-to-machine rights management requires machine-readable rights data. A look at how different media industries are tackling the challenge of assigning standardized, machine-readable identifiers and metadata to creative works, how those...
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Jacob Varghese

Daniel Doubrovkine

Michael Simon

Mario Pena

Maurice Russell

12:15 pm-12:45 pm

CLASSROOMS A/B

Jessica Sobhraj
Robert Norton
Jackson Turner
Drew Waters
D.K. Smith

Staking a Claim: Authorship, Attribution, and Authentication

From photographs and paintings, to musical work sand poetry, the value of many types of creative works lies in their attribution and provenance. But the lack of reliable records of...
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Jessica Sobhraj

Robert Norton

Jackson Turner

Drew Waters

D.K. Smith

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

EVENTS HALL

Stu Levy
Misha Libman
Mark Willis
Alex Bulkin

One of a Kind: Engineering Digital Scarcity with Blockchain

Digital technology did away with scarcity, upending many media industry business models. But the economics of scarcity may be poised for a comeback thanks to blockchain. This panel will explore...
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Stu Levy

Misha Libman

Mark Willis

Alex Bulkin

12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY)

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Events Hall

Sarah Howes
Ben McEwen
Alisa Coleman
Keith Kupferschmid
Adrienne Fields

View From the Top: Copyright Reform in the U.S. and Europe

Copyright legislation in the U.S. and Europe is poised to bring the most sweeping changes in decades to how media content is distributed, licensed, and used. Industry leaders, policymakers and...
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Sarah Howes

Ben McEwen

Alisa Coleman

Keith Kupferschmid

Adrienne Fields

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

EVENTS HALL

Merck Mercuriadis
Nile Rodgers
Robert Levine

Fireside Chat with Merck Mercuridias and Nile Rodgers of Hipgnosis

Fireside Chat with Merck Mercuridias and Nile Rodgers of Hipgnosis Merck Mercuridias, CEO, Founder, & Managing Partner, Hipgnosis Songs Ltd Nile Rodgers, Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Songwriter, Musician, and Singer INTERVIEWER: Robert...
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Merck Mercuriadis

Nile Rodgers

Robert Levine

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Classrooms A/B

JJ Rosen
Jonathan Skogmo
Rasty Turek
Chauncy Jackson

Mixes, Mashups and UGC

Many users of copyrighted works in mixes, mashups and user-generated content go uncounted and uncompensated. Others never happen because they can’t be licensed. This panel will explore how entrepreneurs and...
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JJ Rosen

Jonathan Skogmo

Rasty Turek

Chauncy Jackson

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

EVENTS HALL

Daniel Dewar
Pete Mathias
Virginie Berger
Sun Jen Yung

What’s it Worth? Investing in Rights and Royalties

Leaders from the worlds of finance, startups, and venture capital provide an overview of the M&A and investment climate for rights management companies, and discuss the valuation of rights and...
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Daniel Dewar

Pete Mathias

Virginie Berger

Sun Jen Yung

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Events Hall

Danny Anders
Razi Rais
Cédric Cobban
Eugene Mopsik
Christopher Kenneally

Show Me the Money: Bringing Transparency to Residuals and Royalty Payments

The music business has its notorious “black box” money problem, but creators and licensors in many rights-based industries lack effective tools to track the money their works generate as it...
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Danny Anders

Razi Rais

Cédric Cobban

Eugene Mopsik

Christopher Kenneally

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Classrooms A/B

DIY Tools and Financing for Artists
Rick Goetz
Cheryl Potts
Dae Bogan
Georgii Speakman

DIY Tools and Financing for Artists

Artists and entrepreneurs discuss how technology is enabling creators to manage and finance their own careers and retain control of their work. PANELISTS: G. Thomas Esmay, Director of Business Development,...
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Rick Goetz

Cheryl Potts

Dae Bogan

Georgii Speakman

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

AFTERNOON BREAK

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

EVENTS HALL

Christopher Sprigman
Taishi Fukuyama
Ahmed Elgammal
Edward Klaris

A.I.: What to Make of Machine-Made Art?

Courts say monkeys can’t own copyrights, but what about machines? As artificial intelligence systems increasingly are used to create music, photographs, news articles, and artworks, who or what owns the...
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