WORKSHOP APPLICATION
Decode/Recode – How can we (can we?) fix the Music Industry Data/Rights/Revenues Clusterf**k with a simplified system that actually works?
THE WHY?
For the many of us passionate that musicians and music-makers get paid correctly when their art is played, the current system is broken.
All the well-meaning information and education initiatives can never reach the full community of music-makers globally.
And while the nature of music creation in 2025 has evolved we continue to retrofit new realities into legacy structures and last-century treaties no longer fit-for-purpose.
Rather than pushing the onus onto the musician to learn this baffling, broken system we - the industry - should take responsibility to build a new, simplified system fit for the music business of the future.
This workshop aims to bring together a group of experts from across the music ecosystem with the will and skills to try and crack one of our most enduring problems: music metadata, rights and royalty pay-through.
The workshop will use a draft concept from Voicebox Music - the M.ID (Musician I.D) - as a starting point for constructive, solutions-focussed debate, towards the goal of creating a far simplified coding system for the musician-creator, coupled with 21st century technologies and greatly improved, robust governance.
We aim to ‘de-code’ the current mess and ‘re-code’ to a simple, accountable, transparent mechanic that gets the right monies from each revenue stream to the right music-makers reliably and efficiently.
The goal of the workshop is to evaluate if the concepts from M.ID can be iterated into a meaningful future solution.
If so:
- identify next steps for its development
- form a willing working group of music industry stakeholders, researchers and technology providers
- select participants to bring it forward
- establish a roadmap of development
- work with targets for progress which can be reported on and discussed through the next 12 months and re-presented/presented at future events to drive momentum forward.
If you want to paricipate and join a selected group of future-solutions-focussed experts from various different verticals of the music industry and with an extensive understanding of the metadata/rights/management/revenue attribution ecosystem and its challenges, pleae fill out this short form.
Please demonstrate your expertise to contribute to a coherent debate and let us know if you are willing to work on a solution as part of a working group.
This workshop will take place on September 4 from 2 - 3.30 pm.