Mon: 02.05. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN - MUSIC POOL BERLIN COMMUNITY EVENING X BMC BACKSTAGE at Re:publica TEN

This Music Pool Berlin community evening @ rpTEN is about the potential of the blockchain technology for the music business. In general, the Music Pool Berlin community evenings provide a platform for musicians to find out more about current music business topics, and get to know each other and other players in the music scenes. This evening at rpTEN is organized in cooperation with the Berlin Music Commission and its networking format BMC backstage.

INPUT & DISCUSSION: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

The blockchain technology is said to be a game changer, a technology with the potential to considerably affect different parts of life and economy. While the hype about the digital currency bitcoin, that is also based on the blockchain technology, seems to have calmed down - this seems to have been just a small start of a much bigger movement that is currently forming all over the world in different thematic areas.

So how does the decentralized database technology blockchain actually work? And what is its potential and relevance for the music business in particular?

Our guest, Steffen Holly of Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technologies IDMT, argues that the blockchain technology does not immediately give a solution to pressing issues such as the metadata confusion of the music industry. However it does provide answers to questions of innovative models to rights management and payments of creative works such as music (and other digitally published works).

VENUE: labore:tory, inside re:publica area

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NETWORKING, DRINKS & TUNES

After the public interview and discussion, there will be a reception where you can meet each other over a drink and listen to tunes handpicked by a2n_soundsystem aka Andrea Goetzke and Eric Eitel. We will all move together to the networking area, so that nobody gets lost.

VENUE: networking area, inside re:publica area

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The Diskussion is at labore:tory later on the event will be in the Networking Area.

The event is for free! 

No registration needed. 

8:00 - 11:00 pm 

Details here. 

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