International Music Business Research Days

01/06/2025

A detailed programme for Day 3 of our conference on 13 June is now available.https://www.imbra.info/_files/ugd/15f090_d7e151dc846542f3ab46e8aede4c11c8.pdf

You can register for Day 3 here: https://www.imbra.info/conference

09:30-11:00
Forum Lecture Theatre College Lane

Opening Welcome addresses (UH, IMBRA)
Introduction to Music 2025

Presentation 1
World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO): “Digital Technology and the Transformation of Music Creation Paradigms” (Virtual)

Keynote 1
Performing Right Society (PRS): Music 2025 and Project Nexus

Keynote 2
UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO): Music 2025 and The Music Metadata

Presentation 2
The Music Metadata Mapping and KPI project - key findings from the IPO and TSG led research

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break (Bar 77)

Forum Lecture Theatre College Lane

Music metadata: Credits due and the creator’s role in data tracking
11:00-13:00

Keynote 3
PRS UK creators’ roles in metadata

Panel 1
Council of Music Makers (CMM): the CMM member trade bodies views on improving metadata

13:00-14:00

Lunch (Bar 77)

Forum Lecture Theatre College Lane

Music metadata: The music streaming data supply chain

14.00- 15.30

Presentation 3
DDEX: DDEX 101

Panel 2
Publishers, Labels, CMOs, Distributors and DSPs to discuss the flow of metadata between the sectors and across the streaming supply chain.

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break (Bar 77)

Forum Lecture Theatre College Lane

Music metadata: Education and Awareness – Get Paid Guide and Creators Learn Intellectual Property (CLIP)

16.00 -17.30

Keynote 4
Music Rights Awareness/ WIPO for Creators: CLIP and international perspectives and solutions

Panel 3
UK Music Academic Partnership (MAP): The UK educators’ perspective.

Panel 4
IPO and PRS and Get Paid Guide: Improving education and awareness among UK music makers

Keynote 5
IPO and PRS next steps

Conference closing/summary from IMBRA

17.30-18.45 Post event Drinks Forum Bar 77

The next International Music Business Research Days (IMBRDs) conference, Music and IP, will be held at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 11 – 13 June 2025. 

27/05/2025

Only 2 weeks to go until our conference! Register now!!!!!

This latest incarnation of the IMBRD conference, the 16th International Music Business Research Days Research Days 2025, will be jointly hosted and organised by the School of Creative Arts and Hertfordshire Law School, at the University of Hertfordshire and sponsored by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and PRS for Music. The conference will be held between 11th and 13th June 2025.

The over-arching conference theme is ‘Music 2025 and Music IP’.
We aim to celebrate the manifesto first set out at IMBRD in 2014 that led to the UK Government commissioned research project “Music 2025” published in 2019 and subsequent campaigns in the UK and beyond. These campaigns included and the UK Parliamentary investigations into the economics of streaming and calls for the reform of remuneration and improvement in music metadata practices throughout the whole digital music supply chain.

The next International Music Business Research Days (IMBRDs) conference, Music and IP, will be held at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 11 – 13 June 2025. 

19/07/2024

The latest IMBRDs conference in Hanover was produced in collaboration with the Hype & Friends Festival. Check out student music artist Saule who performance at the closing event

19/07/2024

The latest IMBRDs conference in Hanover was produced in collaboration with the Hype & Friends Festival. Check out student music artist Emilie Sandin who performance at the closing event

19/07/2024

That’s a wrap for the 15th International Music Business Research Days 2024 conference in Hanover, Germany entitled ‘Music Ecosystem Research: Challenges and Opportunities’. Hanover University of Mysic, Drama and Media.