16th International Music Business Research Days "Music 2025 and Music IP"

University of Hertfordshire’s School of

Creative Arts and Law School

This latest incarnation of the IMBRD conference, the 16th International Music Business Research Days 2025, will be jointly hosted and organised by the School of Creative Arts and Hertfordshire Law School, at the University of Hertfordshire. The conference will be held between 11^th and 13^th June 2025

Music business research is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of artistic, musical, cultural, social, legal, economic and technological understandings of the creation, distribution, remuneration and use of music. This interdisciplinary nature of the field entails a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches and an openness to scholars from different academic fields.

The over-arching conference theme is ‘Music 2025 and Music IP”, and we aim to celebrate the manifesto first set out at IMBRD Vienna 2014 which led to the Music 2025 research project published in 2019 and subsequent campaigns in the UK and beyond such as #brokenrecord and the UK Government parliamentary investigations into the economics of streaming and calls for reform of remuneration and improving music metadata practice throughout the whole digital music supply chain.

The conference organisers invite scholars (from the postdoctoral level on) who have a research focus on music business/industry related topics to submit a paper proposal for the conference day on Thursday June 12^th, 2025. Scholarly submissions on this year’s conference theme are equally welcome as are other aspects of music business research.

For students at all levels of the MA or PhD programmes, a doctoral colloquium (Young Scholars' Workshop aka YSW) will be held as part of the 16^th IMBRD on Wednesday June 11^th, 2025.

Indicative themes include but are not limited to

• Past, current and future developments in the music industry (recorded / live / publishing / retailing / wholesaling, etc.)
• Economic and historic analyses of music markets, charts or audiences
• Music and AI
• Music and Metadata
• Music IP Rights Investments – the increased value of Music IPR
• Music Rights, Contracts and Remuneration –#broken record campaign
• Music and trademarks – counterfeit merchandise problem
• Issues in marketing and/or branding music, musicians or music institutions
• Music management new models
• Musical and musician diversity in the music business
• Algorithmic playlisting in streaming
• Emerging market insights including Africa, Latin America and Asia

Friday June 13^th, 2025, is the Music industry conference day for which we have planned a variety of different presentations from UK and International music speakers and trade bodies to critically examine and debate the current state of music business including improving remuneration, greater transparency in contractual arrangements, greater awareness of metadata and improving music creators lives

List of hotels and taxi companies

https://comethotel.co.uk/hatfield-

Please call and advise you are with IMBRA Conference on the 11-13 June and they will arrange with you a discounted rate of £135

https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hatfield

https://www.premierinn.com/Hatfield

For accommodation to stay at the University on College Lane, please contact Joanna Crowe at j.l.crowe@herts.ac.uk.

The cost is £60.00 per night. Due to the conference being out of term time we cannot offer a price with breakfast.

Taxi company names

AAA Taxis Tel: 01707 333666

Email: corporate@aaataxis.com

Sparks Executive Chauffeurs Tel: 01707 891372

Email: sparkscars@btinternet.com

St Albans Airport Taxis Tel: 01727 856605

Email: stalbanstaxi@aol.com

Website: www.stalbansairporttaxis.co.uk Welwyn Private Hire Tel: 07952 839874

Email: welwynprivatehire@outlook.com

Nick Thomas – ad-shortcourses@herts.ac.uk – 01707 285327

Day 1 & 2– Enterprise Hub / Law Building, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9EU

Day 3 - The Forum, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9AB

Where to find us: https://www.herts.ac.uk/contact-us