Mark Isherwood spent 18 years working for the MCPS-PRS Alliance (now PRS for Music), the UK's music rights management company and one of the largest in the world, in senior positions. He was responsible for developing strategies and policies for substantial rights negotiations with a range of licensee industries, including all the major UK TV and radio broadcasters and the video industry. Mark undertook rights acquisition negotiations for a major pan-European broadcaster and led a team of consultants on a project for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) examining the intellectual property rights (IPR) implications of using Creative Commons licenses in higher education and FE. sectors and led a multi-stakeholder project for the European Commission assessing the value of the public domain in the digital ecosystem. He has been non-voting chair of the World Directory Database Working Group since 2010. Mark participated in early industry discussions on the creation and development of DDEX and has led the secretariat since DDEX's incorporation in 2006.
