Music collaboration tool Delic are delighted to announce the appointment of Cliff Fluet and Claire McAuley as Members of their Advisory Board. Both will appear on a Delic panel on Dec 1 2020, discussing what it means to be an independent artist today, alongside Mat Dryhurst, and Ed Stack.*

Claire McAuley is currently VP of International Operations at Warner Chappell Music. Her career in the music industry began in 2006 at BMG Music Publishing, before undertaking a number of roles at Universal Music Publishing, advertising agency TBWA and industry body the Music Publishers Association. Her responsibilities have spanned administration, business and commercial affairs, giving her an extensive background in copyright, royalties, policy and collective rights management. Claire joined the team at Warner Chappell Music in 2018 as VP, International Operations and in January 2020 was promoted to Senior Vice President of Global Administration.

‘Now more than ever, songwriters, producers and artists are in need of technology designed to support remote collaboration and a seamless end-to-end path from creation through to monetization. Delic is primed for this moment and I am excited to be joining at such an important phase of the platform’s evolution, at such a pivotal moment for our industry’ Claire McAuley

Cliff Fluet joined Lewis Silkin LLP as a Partner in April 2006 after over a decade as in-house counsel at various companies in the music and broadcast industry. He has worked with some of the world’s largest names in mobile, brands, recorded music, mobile, live music, radio, audio-visual production and online. He is also the founder and a director of "Eleven", a business advisory for disruptive business models in the world of Digital Media, and chair of The Ivors Academy Trust.

"As we move from a decade of networked access and social streaming, the music industry is embracing a decentralised and distributed future, which will require collaboration, sharing and engagement like never before. Delic's powerful suite of tools bring together all of the elements creators will need to create,  collaborate and protect their assets, workflows and rights" Cliff Fluet

‘We’re excited to welcome Cliff and Claire to the team.  They each bring valuable experience and perspective to Delic, and will help us create a business that is even more responsive to the needs of our members and the music business as a whole’ John Maxwell Hobbs, CEO at Delic

Delic is a tool built for and by musicians who collaborate remotely. Combining a cloud-based project organiser with automated rights management, Delic empowers artists to create their best work and earn fairly from their music.

Delic Sessions - Series 2

We are hosting ‘The Delic Sessions’: a series of fortnightly webinars hosted by Delic with a panel of specialists focusing on the inner workings of the music business, uncovering systematic problems and asking how we rebuild towards a fairer future. 

Series 1  available here: https://www.blog.delic.network/sessions

This series we will invite our panel of specialists to focus on the tools, skills and strategies music creators need to succeed. Each session will discuss the problem but then ask, how might we find a solution to overcome this challenge.

What?

Delic Session 008: Independent or Interdependence? 

If an artist can now keep the rights to their own music, market it themselves via social media, and sell or stream it directly to fans online, what role do labels, distributors and outside institutions have left to play? Up until digital distribution, the bulk of what a label did was make a physical object, market and distribute it. How can labels reinvent themselves to be relevant in the future? In Session 008 Delic we explore the middle ground, the myths around being an Independent artist and Labels as a service.

When? 01.12.20 @5-6pm

Who? 

Host: BBC Radio Presenter and musician, Vic Galloway

Panellists: 

Claire McAuley, VP, International Operations, Warner Chappell Music 

Cliff Fluet, Co-Head of Media & Entertainment at Lewis SIlkin LLP, Managing Director, Eleven Advisory & Chair of The Ivors Academy Trust

Mat  Dryhurst, Artist, musician, theorist and vociferous advocate for decentralisation as an ideological necessity for independent musicians.

Ed Stack, Creative Director, Delic

Where: The sessions are free, sign up here.