Online Event Alert: DDEX 2nd Annual Creator Credit Summit, Nov. 17-19

Some conventions are mere gatherings, while others are true Summits. With it’s comprehensive agenda and expert panelists/presenters, the upcoming DDEX Creator Credit Summit lives up to its name.

DDEX is in effect November 17-19, with their second annual Creator Credit Summit.

DDEX is the international standards-setting organization dedicated to improving the exchange of data and information across the music industry. Just announced: the initial agenda for its 2^nd annual Creator Credit Summit, which will be held online 17-19 November, from 11:30 AM – 1:45 PM EST each day.

The event is free and open to all who have an interest in ensuring that creator credits are an integral part of the music recording process. That includes songwriters, performers, session musicians, producers, mixers, engineers, and A&R teams; as well as developers of digital audio work stations, distribution platforms, and digital music services; in addition to international rights societies, music publishers and record labels.

This marks the second annual DDEX Creator Credit Summit was an invitation-only event in November 2019 in Stockholm, featuring a keynote from Björn Ulvaeus, the acclaimed songwriter, producer, member of the Swedish super-group ABBA, and entrepreneur, who was later named president of CISAC.

Each day of the program will include a mix of panels and presentations addressing different aspects of creator credits and tools to assist in their proper use, and the event will conclude with an open discussion of all the participants. The panel topics cover identification and payment; the conundrum of entering credits in the recording process; DIY musicians and metadata; and music metadata in audio/visual works. Current panel speakers include:

• • Dae Bogan – The Mechanical Licensing Collective
  • Adam Gorgoni – Composer
  • Sara Jackson – Kobalt Music Group
  • Tony Brooke – Warner Music Group
  • Sylvia Massy – Record Producer
  • Jr. Regisford – New Heights/New Heat Entertainment
  • Maureen Droney – The Recording Academy
  • Brett Chance – DistroKid
  • David Amsel – Soundrop
  • MJ Herlihy – CDBaby
  • Michael Lehmann Boddicker – Composer
  • Nick Osztreicher – Netflix
  • Helena Segersten – Sacem
  • Mark Vermaat – Soundmouse
  • Matt Phipps-Taylor – Phonographic Performance Limited

Further, representatives from Creative Passport, Jammber, Muso.ai, Quansic, Session, Sound Credit, and VEVA Sound will give presentations and answer questions about the tools they have developed that integrate the DDEX Recording Information Notification Standard (RIN) and assist all forms of creators in capturing metadata about all aspects of the creative process.

The RIN standard was introduced in 2017 and allows studio equipment manufacturers, including Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) manufacturers, to enable their users to capture and store essential metadata and then communicate it into the commercial supply chain alongside the audio files to which the metadata relates.

When studio personnel use this opportunity to capture meaningful metadata, it can flow seamlessly into the industry value chain, eventually enabling retailers to receive better metadata about the products they’re selling and facilitating the process by which all rights holders and other contributors are properly remunerated. As RIN is one of the DDEX family of standards, the metadata is interoperable with all the other DDEX standards used to communicate data along the supply chain.

The full Creator Credit Summit agenda is online here. Visit here for free registration.

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