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Rights Registries
Panel
Chair: Paul Jessop
Founder, County Analytics
Copyright and Technology
London – June 19th, 2012

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Rights Registries:
Bringing Precision
and Efficiency to
Rights Licensing

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Your Panel
Nic Garnett
Partner, Simons Muirhead & Burton

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Your Panel
Godfrey Rust
Senior Consultant, Rightscom Ltd
Linked Content Coalition

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Your Panel
Nicholas Bentley
Founder, Common Rights

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Your Panel
Jonathan Lockwood
Vice President, Corporate Counsel,
Getty Images

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Your Panel
Paul Jessop
Founder, County Analytics

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Rudyard Kipling
© Copyright Chris Cole and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

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The Elephant's Child
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

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Manhattan Transfer
Who, what, when,
where, why?
Who is the guy?

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Panel Points – Who
• Who is building registries?
• Who wants to registries built?
• Who would register stuff?
• Who would search for registrations?
• Who would resolve identifiers?

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Panel Points – What
• What do registries do?
• What gets stored in
them?
• What is not stored in
them?

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Panel Points – When
• When will registries come on line?
• How long will registrations remain valid?
• How quickly will registries respond to
queries?

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Panel Points – Where
• What is a geographical scope of each
registry?
• Can registries deal with local languages?
• Can registries deal with local scripts?
• Whose data protection law are registries
subject to?

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Panel Points – Why
• What is the benefit of having a registry?
• What is the business case for a registry?
• What is the IRR for a registry?
• Who is going to fund the creation of
registries?

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Metadata and
Registries
A Personal View

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Formalities
• “The enjoyment and the exercise of these
rights shall not be subject to any formality”
Berne Convention, Article 5
• Yes, but..
• Copyright can exist without registration but
it may not be manageable

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Three Metadata
Categories
(and no funeral)
Identity Management
Rights Management
Indexing
(Administrative)

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Identity Management
I want to licence US-S1Z-12-12345
Thanks I sold 129 of US-S1Z-12-12345
US-S1Z-12-12345
The Manhattan Transfer
“Who, What, When, Where, Why”
Album Version
(P) 1978
3:35

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Rights Management
• Owned by...
• Performance rights
payable to...
• Uses work...
• Copyright expires in...
• etc.
For each country

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Indexing
• Genre = Jazz
• BPM = 79
• Recorded at = XYZ Studio 3
• Appears on albums...
• Inspired by...
• etc.

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Administrative
• Registered by...
• Registered on...
• Last correction made...
• Renewal fee payable...???

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Time Element
Today Future
Identity Fixed Manageable
Rights Management Disputable Variable (very)
Indexing Subjective Contextual
Administrative Factual Management

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Registry Functions
• Registration
– Data in
• Query
– Data in, identifier out
– (or not)
• Resolution
– Identifier in, data out
– (or not)

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Contact
paul@countyanalytics.com