FIPP x PDLN Webinar: Collective Licensing
Publisher content in some applications – notably media monitoring – is often licensed through collective management organisations, but the majority of licensing is handled directly by publishers. New content use challenges like web scraping, text and data mining and AI raise questions about where the boundary between the collective and the direct approaches are best drawn.
FIPP and PDLN are working together to help publishers make informed decisions on these decisions with a webinar bringing together experts with a range of views. The webinar will attempt to shine a light on publisher involvement in collective licensing and whether and when a collective approach is appropriate.
This seminar is open to all, members and non members.
When
September 19th 2024; 15.00 CET / 14.00 BST / 9.00 EST
Where
Online, Zoom platform. Details and links will be sent to registered attendees shortly before the event.
Format
The format will be a short presentation from each speaker followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.
Speakers
Alice Ting, VP Content Partnerships, Licensing and Distribution at DMG Media
Alice is a media and publishing industry veteran with deep expertise in building successful licensing strategies and executing growth initiatives through partnerships.
Before DMG, Alice was the General Manager and Vice President of Licensing at The New York Times, where she led an international team focused on content distribution and revenue diversification. She played a key role in expanding the Times brand into new markets and categories, including the launch of T Magazine internationally and other initiatives.
Alice also serves on the board of FIPP, and mentors start-ups for the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and she lives in New York City with her family.
Paul Gerbino, President, Creative Licensing International
Paul Gerbino is President and Founder of Creative Licensing International (CLI) which he launched in January of 2015. CLI works with publishers to license their content and data. Prior to that Gerbino was Director, Digital Media Advertising for Thomas Industrial Network (ThomasNet) and Publisher of ThomasNet News, where he oversaw the Thomas Industrial Network news division and digital media advertising sales and operations. Mr. Gerbino spent 20 years at Thomas where he served in positions such as Director of E-Commerce, Thomas Regional, and Publisher for the American Export Group (AEG). Prior to joining Thomas, Gerbino was the Associate Publisher of Simmons Boardman Railway Group at Simmons Boardman Publishing.
Gerbino has served as Chairman of the Content Division of Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and has been a speaker at major industry events including SIIA’s Information Industry Summit and Content Forum, American Business Media Top Management Meeting and other industry events.
Matt Aspinall, Head of Commercial Services, NLA Media Access
NLA media access is recognised by the UK government as the collective management organisation (CMO) for more than 14,000 UK and international newspaper, magazine, newswire and digital-only news brands – earning and distributing copyright royalties to ensure rights holders are fairly remunerated when their works are used. NLA licenses a range of organisations who use news content including media monitoring organisations (MMOs), PR consultancies and private and public sector organisations.
As Head of Commercial Services, Matt has responsibility for all partnerships with publishers, MMOs and international RROs. Matt also oversees the print and web content databases that support news monitoring alerts to thousands of NLA licensed businesses each day, and runs the cost saving & revenue generating services NLA have created for the publishing sector – including ClipShare (a news archive used by more than 6000 journalists), Text Tracker (an IP protection tool used by 70 global news brands to detect and remove instances of their news content being stolen) and Agent for Publishers (a fully managed licensing operation to the text aggregator market on behalf of hundreds of newspapers and magazines).
Andrew Hughes, Secretary General, PDLN
Press Database and Licensing Network (PDLN) is an association representing organisations owned or controlled by publishers who license or supply newspaper, magazine and website material for media monitoring, press cutting and press review services. PDLN was founded in 2008 and has grown rapidly. PDLN has 35 members in 23 countries.
Over the last twenty years, newspaper publishers in a number of countries have founded industry wide companies in order to license and supply content for media monitoring. A range of licences and services have been established, including online databases which provide up-to-date content in a variety of downloadable formats. We bring these companies together to build better international co-operation. The growing interest in platform – press licensing and recent developments in artificial intelligence have extended our activity into new areas.
