Eight months after its abortive launch at the MidemNet conference in Cannes, Qtrax is back on course according to New York-based CEO and chairman Allan Klepfisz.

During the demonstration of Qtrax – a free, ad-funded “legal” hybrid P2P service – at Berlin’s Popkomm music conference in Berlin, the only hitch was a slow connection to the site. In January, the service was thrown into confusion when a high-profile launch was stopped when the majors suddenly made clear that Qtrax was not authorized to distribute their content after all.
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Title: DCIA Presents Global P2P and Music Conference at Popkomm
Location: Berlin, Germany
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Description: Panel Title: “Private Versus Public Approaches – P2P for Content Rights Holders”
Panel Date: October 10th, 2009
Panel Location: Berlin, Germany
Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
The panel discussed the various content licensing and market exploitation strategies that have been tried to date with respect to P2P distribution and why collective licensing has gained traction in some geographic regions; such issues were also discussed on a Global level also. The roles and responsibilities of P2P companies, ISPs, CDNs, and other parties in an optimal but practical P2P music licensing regime were also addressed.
Other Panelists:
Sari Lafferty, Business Affairs, DCIA (Panel Moderator)
Markus Beckedhl, Public Project Lead, Creative Commons
Lawrence Langs, Special Counsel, Feldman Weinstein & Smith
Ian Penman, Parnter, New Media Law
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, Copyright Alliance
Date: 2009-10-10

New York, NY – October 9, 2008 – X5 Music Group, a leading European music company specialized in the sales and marketing of music, film, and audiobooks for the digital download market, and RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services, announced today that X5 Music Group will utilize RightsFlow’s Outsourced Music Licensing system (“FLOW”) to handle DPD licensing for US download sales. X5 Music Group will now offer label clients integrated back-end accounting and business management services for all DPD licensing needs.
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Berlin, October 9, 2008 – Zebralution, Europe’s leading digital music distributor for independent labels, and RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services, announced a partnership today that will provide RightsFlow’s Outsourced Licensing Services, utilizing the proprietary “FLOW” licensing system, to handle DPD licensing for Zebralution’s distributed artists and labels. Zebralution can now offer label clients integrated back-end accounting and business management services for all mechanical licensing
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Title: Popkomm Conference
Location: Berlin, Germany
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Description: Panel Title: “Everything’s Going Up Except Downloads”
Panel Date: October 9th, 2008
Panel Location: Berlin, Germany
Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
This panel addressed the issue of dwindling download sales that have failed to balance the losses from CD sales. The panel also discussed possible future business models to help the growth of digital downloads.
Other Panelists:
Thorsten Schliesche, Vice President Sales & Marketing Europe & General Manager, Napster Deutschland GmbH, Germany (Panel Moderator)
Mike Skeet, Lawyer, sound advice, Great Britain
Oke Göttlich, Managing Director, Finetunes, Germany
Start Date: 2008-10-09
End Date: 2008-10-10

New York, NY Oct. 2, 2008 – Popkomm, which is held Oct. 8th through Oct. 10th in Berlin, Germany, features Patrick Sullivan as a guest speaker on two panels, including the “Everything’s Going Up Except Downloads!” panel presented by Digital Music News & Musicwoche to be held in the Madrid Center (Room 3) on Thursday, October 9th at 2:15 pm, as well as the DCIA’s inaugural P2P & MUSIC CONFERENCE at Popkomm in the Grosser Stern Conference Center on the Exhibition Grounds on Friday, October 10th.
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Title: Digital Music Forum West (Sponsored by BMI)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Description: Panel Title: “Digital Rights & Clearances for Music”
Panel Date: October 3rd, 2008
Panel Location: Los Angeles, CA
Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
Far too often digital music deals get done only to be held up by complicated and time-consuming rights clearance processes. This panel of experts discussed rights clearance issues for digital music licenses.
Other Panelists:
David Oxenford, Partner, Davis, Wright Tremaine (Panel Moderator)
Kevin Arnold, CEO, IODA
Richard Conlon, VP, New Media & Strategic Development, BMI
Maurice Russell, VP, Bus. & Licensing, Harry Fox Agency
Les Watkins, SVP, Business Affairs, Music Reports
Bob Kohn, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare, Inc.
Date: 2008-10-02

New York, NY – October 1, 2008 – Blackstone Winery, EMI Music, WHY’s Artist Against Hunger and Poverty initiative and content licensing firm RightsFlow have joined forces to fight hunger. The companies have teamed up to donate funds to WHY when fans access free music downloads in a Blackstone consumer promotion.

This promotion, powered by RightsFlow, serves a dual purpose of promoting Blackstone Wine and raising awareness and funds for the charitable organization WHY (World Hunger Year), with Blackstone making a donation to WHY for every download redeemed by consumers.
This venture offers consumers the opportunity to download two free songs of their choice from a selection of more than 160,000 top tracks by EMI artists.
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