San Diego, CA– June 19, 2009 – Interview by Virgil Dickerson. Duncan Hutchinson is a music industry veteran who is chief content officer at RightsFlow. RightsFlow handles professional services for music rights management.Duncan also works with Blackheart Records and discusses the latest release by Girls in a Coma.
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New York, NY– June 17, 2009 – Essential USA, a joint venture between the Rocket Science marketing firm and the Cooking Vinyl label, has hired RightsFlow to license, account, and pay publisher royalties for physical, mechanical and DPD licenses on behalf of Essential USA’s as well as select Rocket Science clients.
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Arlington, VA– June 14, 2009 – An agreement concluded recently between a U.S. royalty service provider and a major Australian collection agency is aimed at improving the mechanism for payment of digital royalties owed to Australian and New Zealand songwriters for transactions in the United States.
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Brisbane, Australia – June 9, 2009 – Australasian Performing Right Association and sister organization the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society has struck a digital royalty collecting accord with RightsFlow, the N.Y.-based bulk mechanical licensing, royalty services and accounting provider.
The breakthrough agreement, announced today (June 9), means digital royalties owed to Australasian songwriters for transactions in the United States will be accounted for and paid through to the Australasian rights holders.
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Title: World Copyright Summit
Location: Washington, DC
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Description: Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
Performing Rights Organizations as well as private companies have made major investments in tracking systems for music, film and image that both feed into the copyright societies’ own royalty systems, but also serve third parties with sophisticated information about the use of IP in both analogue and digital media. Precise information on usage is crucial to compensate rights-owners and protect copyrights. This showcase session will highlight services or systems that enable rights organizations and societies to work better and more efficiently in tracking the use of copyrighted works, both in the online and offline world.
Other Panelists:
Landmark Digital Services (USA)
Mediaguide (USA)
RoyaltyShare (USA)
Date: 2009-06-09
Washington, DC– June 8, 2009 – Patrick Sullivan, President and CEO of RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced today that he will be presenting at this year’s World Copyright Summit (WCS) in Washington, DC. The World Copyright Summit is a global business-oriented forum featuring over 100 high-profile creators from all disciplines, creative industry leaders as well as top policy-makers from Washington and the rest of the world. Mr. Sullivan will be speaking on the “Tracking Online and Offline Usage” panel along with other experts in the music-licensing field. Mr. Sullivan’s expertise in global music licensing income tracking will add depth and knowledge to discussions on the future of music publishing and the music industry as a whole.
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New York, NY – June 8, 2009 – APRA|AMCOS – music copyright organisations representing Australian and New Zealand songwriters and their publishers – and RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced today an agreement that will allow RightsFlow to identify Australian and New Zealand works based upon their clients’ master record content. The project will ensure that digital royalties owed to Australian songwriters for transactions in the US will be accounted for and paid through to the Australasian rights holders.
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Santa Monica, CA– June 8, 2009 – APRA|AMCOS, a group representing writers and publishers in New Zealand & Australia, has now tapped RightsFlow to help monitor and collect mechanical royalties on usages in the US.
Midem is now giving Midemnet a more prominent and integrated position, according to event organizers. The digital-focused Midemnet will still prepend the larger event, though mainline attendees will have access and digital aspects will expand. The action starts late January.
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Encino, CA – June 8, 2009 – Essential USA, a joint venture between Rocket Science and Cooking Vinyl and RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services, announced today that Essential USA will utilize RightsFlow’s proprietary mechanical licensing system (“FLOW”) to license, account, and pay publisher royalties for physical, mechanical and DPD, licenses on behalf of Essential USA’s as well as select Rocket Science clients.
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Title: NARM Connects
Location: San Diego, CA
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Description: Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
The course will start with an industry overview and music basics for artists and new labels and businesses. Then, as the day progresses, sessions will cover the fundamental industry issues that all music creators and content users at any experience level need to know. A2IM President Rich Bengloff will moderate the program and present portions of his music industry course that he teaches as part of the Fordham MBA, as well as to companies such as ADA, Fontana, and Billboard. Additional instructors will include music label owners, distributors/aggregators, retailers and social networking/web executives.
Other Panelists:
Rich Bengloff – President, A2IM (Moderator)
Erik Gilbert – VP of Content, Ioda
Date: 2009-06-07
