4th Vienna Music Business Research Days in Retrospective

In the 4^th Vienna Music Business Research Days the “Future of Music Licensing” was highlighted. The conference, therefore, focused on collective rights management and collecting societies respectively as well as the registration of music rights. However, in a broader perspective also the future of copyright in a digital society was discussed.

In the opening panel of the conference on Thursday the concept of creative commons licensing and the set-up of a collection society for CC-licensing by the C3S initiative in Germany was controversially discussed.

The first conference day, however, was devoted the 3^rd Young Scholars’ Workshop. Fourteen young academics from 8 different countries – Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Palestine and Portugal – presented their papers on a wide range of music business research topics.

For a detailed coverage of the whole conference– including all papers and presentation slides as well as audio files of all talks and discussion – please click here.

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Project “Art e Fact”

The scientific collaboration project, ART-e-FACT, will focus on IT-solutions for seamless artefact data process management, free of media discontinuities, in the music industry. The project is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the initiative KMU-Innovativ, for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), launched on 1st of January 2013.

For the next two years the project will deal with various problems of media discontinuity, particularly in the administration and management of business data within the music industry.

Press release of the “ART e FACT” project

For further information please click on: http://artefact.uni-leipzig.de