3 Introduction to Musical Works Data and Rights standards 10:00 – 10:30

There are four Musical Works Data and Rights standard message suites. Three of these are very much related:

(a) Musical Works Notification choreography standard (MWN) enables companies to exchange information relating to claims of ownership of musical works embodied in releases;
(b) Musical Works Licensing choreography standard (MWL) enables companies to request and to be granted licences for using such musical works;
(c) Letters of Direction (LoD) enables owners of musical works embedded in releases to notify users of such musical works that the ownership of the works has changed, in order that the new owner is paid the relevant royalties going forward; and
(d) Bulk communication of Work And Recording Metadata (BWARM) provides a mechanism for the communication of data about musical works and the sound recordings or music videos that make use of those musical works. In addition, the standard enables the communication of right shares in relation to the musical works set out in the message.

This session will provide an explanation of the BWARM standard.
Speakers:
Niels Rump – DDEX Secretariat
Steffen Lindek – DDEX Secretariat

4  BWARM implementation experiences 10:30 – 10:45

The Mechanical Licensing Collective has implemented the BWARM standard for communication to nearly 200 business partners. An explanation of the process the MLC went through to implement this standard and insight provided into any challenges that implementation created and how these were overcome.
Speakers:
Raphael Amselli – The Mechanical Licensing Collective
Frank Jackson – SoundExchange

5  Implementation Q&A 10:45 – 11:00

This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the speakers from Session 4.
All attendees

6  Introduction to Musical Works Data and Rights standards (continued) 11:15 – 11:45

This session will provide a detailed explanation of the Musical Works Notification choreography standard (MWN) and Musical Works Licensing choreography standard (MWL) standards.
Speakers:
Niels Rump – DDEX Secretariat
Steffen Lindek – DDEX Secretariat

7  MWN implementation experiences 11:45 – 13:00

The MWN standard was published in 2014. Since then a number of companies have implemented MWN into their systems as they have recognised the benefits of doing so.
As a result there is now a wealth of experience about how implementation of this standard is approached, how such implementations have influenced later versions of the standard, lessons learnt as well as some of the potential challenges implementers may face. Therefore, during this session, members of DDEX will provide explanations of how implementing MWN has benefited their company, explain how they approached the implementation, detail any challenges they came across and how these were resolved.

Speakers:
Sara Jackson – Meta
Jay Gress – Sony Music Entertainment
Frank Jackson – SoundExchange
Raphael Amselli – The Mechanical Licensing Collective
Kean Harris – Universal Music Publishing

8  Implementation Q&A 13:45 – 14:15

This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the speakers from Session 7.
All attendees

9  Introduction to Musical Works Data and Rights standards (continued) 14:15 – 14:30

This session will provide an explanation of the LoD standard.
Speaker:
Niels Rump – DDEX Secretariat

10  LoD implementation experiences 14:30 – 14:45

The LoD standard is the most recent of the three linked MWDR standards to see implementation activity. An explanation about the implementation experience of the LoD standard will be provided in the session.
Speaker:
Tunji Abidogun – SoundExchange

11  Implementation Q & A and general discussion 14:45 – 15:00

This is an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the speaker from session 10 and discuss any other issues raised during the rest of the seminar.
All