The Production Music Committee Meeting

Programme:

1. Welcome and introduction
   
   
2. PMC organization and possible future professionalization
   Discussions on the future of the Production Music Committee within ICMP and how we could go back to the idea of setting up an European PMA.
   
   
3. National developments
   In this segment we will cover recent interesting and important new from individual countries.
   
   
4. Maximizing royalty collections from PROs – tips and best practices.
   In this segment we will go through the basic and important part of collecting copyright royalties as a publisher and sub-publisher. Common practices and misconceptions, and some tips and tricks for potentially increasing the royalty incomes for you and your partners
   
   
5. Guide to understanding how to make most of performance royalties from TV ads. The aim of this panel is to present schemes used on different territories to allow proper reporting and distribution of income generated by broadcast of tv commercials and discuss with meeting participants if they are effective in practise and how to improve them.
   
   
6. Neighbouring rights and Production Music
   In what countries are neighbouring rights royalties being distributed to production music companies? Update on our ongoing survey.
   
   
7. Music written by AI
   Current state of the AI systems and the PROs reaction. Are the opportunities and threats the same for the commercial and production music?
   
   
8. AOB / discussion

The meeting will be followed by a lunch for the participants