DMLA November Newsbreak
DMLA Newsbreak
November 9, 2023
2023 International Digital Media Licensing Conference
San Francisco @ The Presidio
By Mark Milstein
After a nearly four year hiatus, the in-person DMLA conference returned this October as an earth shaking success.
Seismic Shifts was this year's theme, and generative AI and all of its accompanying wizardry, fear inducing unknowns and ethical questions were on full display for two full days at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco's Presidio.
With 200 attendees, and sponsorships from Google, Acquia, Shutterstock, pocstock, CNN Collection, ImageRights, CDAS, iSpyVisuals, and Adobe, DMLA reafirmed its role as the center of gravity for the media licensing industry and beyond…
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Conference Video Access
The conference videos are complete. Information on access will be sent directly to attendees and speakers. Additionally, all members will get free and full access in December via the members video and documents library on dmla.org. To access these, members must create or sign into their dmla account.
DMLA Response to USCO Notice of Inquiry
written by Nancy Wolff
On behalf of the Digital Media Licensing Association (“DMLA”), we are submitting the Notice of Inquiry on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and Copyright initially published on August 30, 2023 (“NOI”).
DMLA is the leading trade association representing the interests of entities who primarily license still and motion images to publishers, the media, advertisers, designers and others. Its members represent the interests of thousands of photographers/videographers and the copyrights in millions of still and motion images by aggregating images and making them readily searchable and available for licensing online or via apps. DMLA supports a robust copyright regime that supports a thriving licensing industry, whether it’s the licensing of media content, the metadata that is associated with digital content, or the licensing of a dataset of curated content that is available to entities for use as training models. DMLA supports the potential and opportunity that generative AI models offer but wants to insure that the models respect copyright, that training content is lawfully obtained, that there is transparency in the content that is used to train the models, including that records are maintained and accessible in order to identify content that is used in training, and that the creative community continues to receive benefit if their works are used in the creation of generative.
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Reminders
Please remember to budget for DMLA in 2024.
DMLA implemented a new dues structure in late 2022, which has gone into effect for new members. For existing members, we gave you a year to plan accordingly. The new dues structure for General Members is now driven by revenue range rather than employee count. To see your 2024 dues, please go to https://www.digitalmedialicensing.org/join-us - scroll to the bottom and select your membership type. Then scroll to the dues section to find your dues level.
DMLA will send a request to verify your revenue range prior to the end of the year. Please stay tuned.
IDMLC 2024 - Please plan your budgets to include our annual conference.
Sponsors are vital to DMLA and support the conference, education programs and our advocacy work on behalf of DMLA members. Please consider sponsoring DMLA in 2024. For more information, reach out the admin@digitalmedialicensing.org.