DMLA Newsbreak 6/16/2021
Education: Webinars
There’s still time: Join us Friday for NFTs 101
The panel has expanded and so has the audience, but you still have time to register for this enlightening DMLA Info+ webinar.
Join us Friday to learn about non-fungible tokens and how they might benefit your business. The panel comprises four members and friends of DMLA who have emerged as experts on NFTs:
Joe Naylor - President / CEO / Co-founder of ImageRights International, will moderate the discussion
Sarah Conley Odenkirk - Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, will consider the legal aspects of creating, deploying and selling NFTs.
Andy Parsons - Director of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), addressing NFTs from the viewpoint of provenance and how the technology can relate to the CAI.
Eric Wengrowski - Co-founder and CEO of steg.ai, will delve into the technology behind them and showcase several start ups for whom NFTs are integral business components.
Details: The audience will be admitted shortly before the webinar starts, with microphones muted, but the session will stay open afterward to give those who can stick around a chance to visit. Questions may be posed throughout the session via chat, and the moderator may invite audience members to ask their questions on screen.
Date: June 18, 2021
Time: 1 - 2 pm EDT
Cost: Free for DMLA members, $59.99 for non-members
Education: Conference
The 2021 Digital Media Licensing Conference envisions a resilient, thriving industry
The 26th International Digital Media Licensing Conference is all set for Oct. 25-29, with education online and (pandemic permitting) in-person networking.
The theme for this year’s event – Bigger. Better. Stronger. The Journey Forward – emerged from members’ shared optimism and enthusiasm after weathering such a rough year.
Here’s what we have planned:
Four days of panels and roundtables online like last year, but with interactive intermissions between sessions.
More opportunities to talk to sponsors, speakers and friends through enhanced online networking. (We have learned a lot since last year.)
Regional in-person networking events on the east and west US coasts (and perhaps in between). We must stay nimble about in-person plans, of course, but will keep you fully informed.
We have a few more details to work out before opening registration, but watch for that announcement soon. In the meantime, send any questions or ideas for sessions to admin@digitalmedialicensing.org.
DMLA just turned 70. Celebrate with us!
Member News
Meet our newest member: Scribely
Scribely provides hand-crafted, highly descriptive alt text to make visual media more accessible. Scribely, founded and led by Caroline Desrosiers, creates alt text exclusively for people who use text-to-speech technology, helping them access a richer internet experience and helping businesses fulfill their diversity and inclusion promises.
Filmmaker Rick Ray Re-Launches RetroFootage, a Completely Rebranded Archival Footage Site
VENTURA, California — World traveling filmmaker, cinematographer and stock footage shooter Rick Ray, best known for his 2006 award-winning documentary “10 Questions for The Dalai Lama,” has relaunched his website, RetroFootage.com to include a new comprehensive online library featuring more than 350,000 masterfully restored archival stock footage clips.
Available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses, the database contains clips from more than 100,000 original films.
“It’s a gigantic archive and we continue to produce 500-750 more clips each week,” Ray said from his office overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Ventura, CA. “We are taking this decaying old celluloid into the digital age, making it easy to find and license.”
RetroFootage.com is part of DVArchive, a valued member of DMLA.
Is your company expanding? Let us know so we can help tell the world. Send press releases or share details in an email to elaine@digitalmedialicensing.org.