Thematic Streams & Panels
Deep dive into the 3 core pillars, 9 parallel panel sub-streams, plenaries, and emerging AI challenges.
Plenary Sessions
Opening Plenary: Navigating the Future of Copyright Governance
Establish a common understanding of how digitalization, platformization, and cross-border exploitation are reshaping copyright governance, introducing the technocratic issues: transparency, accountability, and interoperability.
Guiding Questions:
- • How has the digital economy transformed copyright value chains?
- • What governance challenges are emerging across jurisdictions?
- • What can governments, industry, and creators learn from one another?
- • What opportunities exist for greater international cooperation?
Closing Plenary: Looking Ahead — Building Collaborative Pathways
Reflect on lessons from each thematic stream and identify concrete opportunities for continued cooperation, knowledge exchange, and technical collaboration.
Guiding Questions:
- • What common themes emerged across the three streams?
- • Where do stakeholders see opportunities for practical cooperation?
- • Which technical issues require further research or capacity building?
- • How can governments, CMOs, creators, platforms, and international organizations continue the dialogue?
Stream 1 — Transparency in Royalty Administration
Right holders report difficulty understanding how received sums are derived: usage data relied upon, deduction policies applied, and how cross-border flows were reconciled. Credible and verifiable reporting is a foundation of institutional trust.
1A — Transparency in Multi-Stakeholder Governance
Roles and responsibilities of CMOs, governments, creators, publishers, producers, digital platforms, aggregators, DSPs, and intermediaries; governance models; disclosure obligations; and multi-stakeholder participation.
1B — Transparency in Cross-Border Royalty Ecosystems
Cross-border licensing arrangements; reciprocal representation agreements; international royalty flows; information sharing among CMOs; jurisdictional challenges; and tracing royalties across multiple territories.
1C — Transparency in Royalty Administration
Royalty collection, apportionment methodologies, distribution policies, reporting standards, auditability, payment timelines, transparency dashboards, and beneficiary access to information.
Stream 2 — Accountability in Governance Systems
Royalty collection and distribution increasingly rely on automated algorithms for matching, valuation, and allocation. Questions arise regarding explainability, review, audit, unallocated royalties, and dispute settlement.
2A — Algorithmic Accountability in Digital Remuneration
Platform recommendation systems, streaming algorithms, AI-assisted curation, discoverability, impact on remuneration, transparency of ranking systems, and fairness assessments.
2B — Accountability for Unallocated and Unclaimed Royalties
Governance of black-box royalties; identification efforts; redistribution mechanisms; holding periods; fiduciary obligations; and public reporting/oversight.
2C — Accountability Across the Digital Value Chain
Responsibilities of CMOs, digital platforms, aggregators, publishers, record labels, and governments; compliance mechanisms; audits; dispute resolution; and oversight models.
Stream 3 — Interoperability of Rights & Metadata Systems
Metadata fragmentation—inconsistent identifiers, incomplete ownership data, unresolved splits, and divergent reporting formats—remains a principal source of administrative delay and unclaimed royalties.
3A — Metadata and Rights Information Standards
Standardization of copyright metadata, identifiers (ISRC, ISWC, ISNI, IPI, etc.), ownership data, repertoire databases, attribution standards, and machine-readable rights information.
3B — Interoperable Digital Infrastructure
Data exchange protocols, API interoperability, cross-border rights information systems, distributed registries, trusted data-sharing frameworks, and technical governance.
3C — International Cooperation for Interoperability
Harmonization of technical standards, cooperation among CMOs, WIPO’s coordination role, governance of international registries, capacity building, and developing-country participation.
Emerging Challenges: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, are compounding existing royalty governance challenges while also offering potential solutions for efficiency.
The provenance and identification of works used in AI training, attribution of AI-assisted outputs, and metadata infrastructure needed to support licensing and remuneration in an AI-enabled environment are matters of shared interest to all Member States, irrespective of their positions on substantive copyright policy.