Intellectual Property Office
Technical Solutions Group
The Technical Solutions Group (TSG) includes a range of industry metadata experts. The group will explore current workflows, standards and technologies and recommend how to improve them to enable delivery of the core data set as specified in the agreement.
The TSG first met in September 2023 and will regularly meet during the two-year period covered by the metadata agreement.
Initial phase metadata KPI project
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is supporting this project and has commissioned a team of consultants to help carry out the first phase of work. This team has been tasked to:?
- catalogue and map existing metadata flows
- assist baselining and identifying meaningful and achievable key performance indicators (KPIs) to be measured at relevant points in the metadata chain, and
- assist the creation of a gap analysis of areas of potential improvement
The consultant team is currently interviewing a wide and representative range of stakeholders from across the music industry to ensure different perspectives are considered and the analysis and outputs from this project are as accurate as possible.
How to get involved
If you are an individual or part of a company/organisation in the music industry and you handle metadata, we want to hear from you.
Interviews
If you would like to be interviewed as part of this project, please contact us at musicstreaming@ipo.gov.uk
Sign up to the metadata agreement
If your company or organisation operates in the UK as part of the music industry and you would like to sign up to the metadata agreement, please contact us at musicstreaming@ipo.gov.uk
Technical Solutions Group Membership
The current members of the Technical Solutions Group are:
- Chair: Scott Farrant
Head of Industry Affairs & Society Relations, Kobalt Music - Cameron Craig
Executive Director, Music Producers Guild - Charlie Phillips
Interim Chief Operations Officer, The Ivors Academy - Dave Ball
Director of Metadata Operations, Universal Music Group - Magali Clapier
Director Publishing Operations, Spotify - Mark Douglas
Chief Information Officer, Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) - Mark Krajewski
Chief Information Officer, Performing Right Society (PRS for Music) - Matt Phipps-Taylor
Chief Information Officer, peermusic - Paul Butler
Head of Digital Supply Chain Operations, FUGA - Paul Fisher
Head of Repertoire Operations, Integral Distribution Services - Pip Newby
Songwriter Management, Founder, Friends Vs Music - Robert Hill
Client Services and Operations Manager, Horus Music - Ross Greening
Senior Vice President European Regional Administration and Global Copyright/Society Relations, Universal Music Publishing Group - Shabir Bakhtiar
Finance and Royalties Assistant, Hospital Records - Stephanie Ayres
Director Global Tech Rights Platforms, Sony Music - Vicky Fry
Chief Information Officer, Beggars Group