London, England, United Kingdom
Specialties: Music Industry Business, Media Content Process & Workflows, Content Value Chains Analysis, IPR Licensing & Legislation Advice, Metadata & Identifiers Development and Implementation, Technical Standards Development for Digital Rights Management
Since it was founded in January 2000, Rightscom has established a trusted position as an international consultancy, with a unique body of business and technology knowledge about the management of all types of digital media in the network environment. Rightscom has an enviable track record of effective delivery across a very broad spectrum of projects for a varied list of clients including media content owners, on-line distributors and technology service providers.
The Alliance is the music rights collecting society for the UK and one of the biggest in the world. I was responsible for the development of strategies and policies for substantial rights negotiations with a range of licensee industries, including all the major UK television and radio broadcasters and the video industry. I was responsible for the gathering of knowledge concerning rights-related new technology developments worldwide. I participated in the UK Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit Study (e-commerce@itsbest) which set out the UK Governments e-commerce agenda.