Rhapsody Taps RightsFlow For Licensing and Administration Services
RightsFlow Providing Full Mechanical Licensing and Administration For Rhapsody’s Digital Music Subscription Service
New York, NY, July 6, 2010 – RightsFlow, a leading provider of licensing and royalty services, announced today an agreement to provide bulk mechanical licensing and administration and reporting support for Rhapsody, the leading online music subscription service. The deal will provide Rhapsody with additional tools and solutions for mechanical licensing and content management services for publishing rights in the United States.
Rhapsody offers subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than nine million songs, whether they’re listening on a PC, laptop, internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone (including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android-powered headsets). Rhapsody subscribers can access their music through more touch-points than any other digital music service.
Rhapsody’s Director of Music Licensing Adam Parness commented, “This partnership further enhances our ability to efficiently clear the mechanical rights for our catalog, ensuring that the complete spectrum of songwriters and publishers are properly licensed and paid for the use of their compositions on the Rhapsody service. RightsFlow’s tools will be a great addition to the vast amount of in-house work that Rhapsody has done in this arena. In streamlining this process, it also allows us to fully focus on our on-going mission: to help music fans find, play, and discover great music.”
“We’re extremely proud to enter into this agreement with Rhapsody,” added Ben Cockerham, RightsFlow’s Chief Strategy Officer and CFO. “We’re thrilled with the partnership, and that they’ve chosen our technology to provide back office mechanical licensing for the millions of songs being enjoyed daily on this outstanding service.”
RightsFlow is one of the leading experts in mechanical licensing, simplifying how rights holders get paid. As new methods of consuming music have emerged the company has quickly become a pioneer in solving the complex issues of copyright compliance with service offerings that are widely being adopted by labels, artists and global businesses.
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About Rhapsody
The Rhapsody® digital music service (www.rhapsody.com) gives subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than nine million songs, whether they’re listening on a PC, laptop, internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone. Rhapsody allows subscribers to access their music through more touch-points than any other digital music service, including mobile phones from Verizon Wireless, through Rhapsody applications on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and Android mobile platform and through devices from Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips.
Contact for Rhapsody:
Jessica Friedberg Abramson
Senior Director, Consumer Marketing
+1-206-979-0914
About RightsFlow
www.rightsflow.com
RightsFlow is a leading provider of mechanical licensing services and royalty payment technology for online music services, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licensees and licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary “FLOW” licensing technology and 13.5 million song database allow us to serve over 10,000 clients obtaining licenses from publishers and songwriters all over the world – including major, independent and artist controlled works.
RightsFlow is a member of DDEX, DiMA and A2IM.
Contact for RightsFlow:
Michael Kauffman
SVP of Sales & Marketing
+1-646-461-6397
michael.kauffman@rightsflow.com
