OMPI/CR/TUN/22
December 13, 2022 (Tunis, Tunisia) Hybrid (French)
09:00 - 14:00 Tunis time
December 7, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
The webinar featured initiatives of private companies using cutting-edge technologies to improve data management.|Imprimo is a Web3 double-sided platform for the visual arts that enables discovery through social connections while increasing transparency and trust across the art supply chain.|Further innovation in copyright infrastructure was presented by UREEQA, which provides a secure, proprietary, blockchain enabled platform to help any creator to protect, manage, and monetize their works worldwide.|In the digital era, more new music is created and released worldwide than ever before, and this has created a rapidly expanding group of new creators who do not always fit the existing structures of the industry. This was the motivation for Family In Music, which presented its services, including MgNTa, an identifier in the music industry to support and empower the new generation of creators.
November 23, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
The objective of this webinar was to shed light on accessibility metadata. The publishing industry embeds accessibility metadata in e-books and other online publications to describe the features that facilitate the reading experience for people who are blind, have low vision or are otherwise print disabled. Four speakers shared their perspectives on how accessibility is being defined in international e-publishing standards, how metadata is embedded in publications, how libraries are using metadata to improve service to their users that are print disabled, and how these readers benefit from accessibility metadata.
WIPO/CR/GE/2/22
November 22 to November 24, 2022 (Geneva, Switzerland) Onsite
WIPO/IP/SAN/22
November 16 to November 17, 2022 (Santiago, Chile) Onsite
November 9, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
This webinar provided an overview of the UKIPO’s ongoing work on music streaming metadata. This forms part of the UK Government’s work aimed at improving the music streaming ecosystem for creators. This presentation included an overview of the background for this work, industry metadata issues and potential solutions in this space.
October 26, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
This webinar presented rights data management in the audiovisual sector, including the International Documentation on Audiovisual works (IDA). IDA index is an international centralized database facilitating the identification of audiovisual works and rights holders. The purpose of IDA is to simplify the identification of audiovisual works on an internationally integrated basis and improve cross-border information exchanges by a local member CMO. IDA is a tool developed by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), and managed by one of the CISAC member French CMOs, Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD).
WIPO/CR/HRE/22
October 17 to October 19, 2022 (Harare, Zimbabwe) Onsite
October 12, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time|This webinar featured a brief introduction to initiatives of two private companies to improve data management with cutting-edge technologies. Verfi Media (USA) presented their data management services, including the Verifi Rights Data Alliance, which streamlines information collaboration for music catalogs throughout the digital value chain. Startbahn (Japan) presented Startrail, the blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity and traceability of artworks by issuing NFTs for both physical and digital works.
September 28, 2022 Virtual (English)
13:00 - 14:00 Geneva time
This webinar featured multi-territorial licensing practices for musical works for digital music services, based on the experience of SACEM, a French Collective Management Organization (CMO) operating in the music field.