PANEL - Know Your Rights: Managing Your Music Licensing Portfolio
With streaming now the dominant global music consumption model, artists and managers must track every revenue stream to fully maximize the value of their intellectual property. Every year, tens of millions of dollars in royalties go unclaimed due to missing registrations, fragmented rights systems, and inaccurate metadata. Whether it’s neighboring rights, performance royalties, or mechanical royalties, failure to register with the relevant collection societies, CMOs, PROs, and rights organizations can leave significant money on the table. Even when registrations are in place, incomplete or inaccurate data can still prevent royalties from reaching the correct rights holders.
Featured Speakers:
Jason Feinberg, Head of KOSIGN
Jason Feinberg is a marketing, technology, and strategy executive who has held leadership roles at Kobalt, UMG, Pandora, Concord, and Epitaph. He combines musicianship and marketing with developer-level technology experience to grow fanbases, revenues, and businesses.
Currently, Jason leads KOSIGN at Kobalt, helping independent songwriters collect their global royalties with industry-leading clarity, speed, and control. He is also a Lecturer at UCLA, teaching an upper-division Digital Marketing course he developed for the Music Industry major.
Jason’s early days were spent as a software engineer, a college radio DJ and music director, an audio engineer, and an artist manager. When not building world-class teams and technology stacks, you can find Jason hunting for rare 70s punk vinyl or playing his trusty Gibson Explorer.
Tiara Guy, Director, Artist & Industry Relations at SoundExchange
Jamie Dominguez, National Director of Industry Relations, The MLC
Jamie Dominguez is the National Director of Industry Relations at the Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC), where she builds and strengthens relationships with songwriters, publishers, and music industry stakeholders while advancing The MLC’s mission to ensure songwriters and music publishers receive their U.S. mechanical streaming royalties. She represents The MLC at key industry events and conferences across the music ecosystem. Prior to joining The MLC, Jamie spent 19 years at SESAC, most recently as Senior Director of Creative Services, and later helped launch Sound Royalties’ New York presence.
Tiara Guy is the Director of Artist & Industry Relations at SoundExchange, where she leads the organization’s national outreach to artists, labels, and the broader creator community.
With more than a decade of experience across SoundExchange’s data, rights, and creator-support functions, Tiara brings deep expertise in digital performance royalties and the evolving needs of today’s music creators.
In her role, Tiara partners directly with artists and rights owners to help them understand and maximize the royalties owed to them. She specializes in identifying unregistered creators with unclaimed earnings, guiding them through the registration process, and supporting established artists as they manage their recordings, catalogs, and digital revenue streams.
Throughout her career at SoundExchange, Tiara has become a trusted resource for creators—bridging education, advocacy, and relationship-building to ensure artists have the tools they need to succeed in the modern music economy.
Peter Leathem OBE, Chief Executive Officer at PPL
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Moderator:
Linda Bloss-Baum, Government Affairs Lead, SONA &Director, Business & Entertainment Program, American University
Linda Bloss-Baum has a deep understanding of how public policy is shaped by legislative, legal, regulatory, public relations, and industry forces in Washington, D.C. Prior to accepting her current Professor position plus leading the Business and Entertainment Program at American University, she was the Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Public Affairs at SoundExchange. She began her career in the tech industry and went on to serve as Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, specializing in telecommunications and technology issues. Linda has represented the interests of several leading content companies in Washington, D.C., including Time Warner, Inc., Warner Music Group, and NBC Universal/Universal Music Group. Linda has gained expertise in the challenges facing creators of content in the ever-changing digital marketplace. Her extensive work with the content industry has allowed her to gain a deep understanding of the value of artistic contributions, in both economic and cultural terms. Linda proudly serves as the Government Affairs Lead and sits on the Board of Directors of the Songwriters of North America.
