New York, NY (September 30, 2010) – RightsFlow, an industry leader in providing licensing services and royalty payment technology, is celebrating the company’s 3rd Anniversary by announcing new initiatives, partnerships and corporate expansion.  President and CEO Patrick Sullivan noted, “We are extremely pleased to note this anniversary and to share our desire to continue innovating and creating enhancements that will drive revenue growth for RightsFlow and for our clients for years to come.  As new methods of consumption emerge, we aspire to continue to be at the forefront of solving complex issues of copyright compliance and royalty payment for our partners.” Read the rest of this entry »

Location: Nashville TN
When: Thursday, September, 2010
Time: 2:20 PM
Where: Curb Event Center at Belmont University, 2002 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville.

Nashville TN (September 29, 2010)  Ben Cockerham, RightsFlow’s co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and CFO, will be a featured panelist September 30 for the Next Big Nashville & Leadership Summit panel “Music Like Water: Old Streams And New”.  The discussion is scheduled for Thursday at 2:20pm in the Curb Event Center at Belmont University, 2002 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville.

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Atlanta, GA (September 27, 2010) – Christian Copyright Solutions (CCS), the leading provider of copyright services for churches and ministries, announced a partnership today with RightsFlow, a technology-enable licensing and royalty service provider.  The two companies will collaborate to integrate RightsFlow’s Limelight platform into CCS’s PERMISSIONSplus service, ensuring quick and efficient accounting, licensing and payment to songwriters and publishers worldwide.  The combined efforts by the two companies will ensure that CCS clients can simply and inexpensively secure clearance to cover any song for release. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2007, NYU MUBG graduates Patrick Sullivan (G ’00) and Ben Cockerham (G ’06) founded the licensing and royalty solutions provider RightsFlow (http://www.rightsflow.com) to address the industry-wide pain of navigating a complex web of content owners and licensing agreements. RightsFlow’s proprietary “FLOW” bulk licensing technology allows the company to obtain licenses from publishers and pay out royalties owed to songwriters with ease. Read the rest of this entry »

Licensing is a complex topic that many DIY/indie musicians in particular avoid at all costs. Here’s the good news – you don’t have to anymore. Limelight, a service of RightsFlow, is here to make the whole process smooth, straighforward – and budget friendly. Here, Michael Kauffman of RightsFlow explains what Limelight can do for musicians and how you can use the service to help you clear all those songs you’ve been dying to cover.

Question: Licensing can be complicated business for even seasoned music biz professionals, and for many indie artists and labels, the mere idea of delving into the world of licensing sends them running for the hills. How is Limelight changing that?

Limelight simplifies the process of clearing cover songs. There are artists out there who play these songs live and never knew they could record and distribute them, let alone sell them. We’ve created a site that is simple to use and allows artists to secure the necessary mechanical license for 100% of the publishing spectrum and also ensures that they are compliant with the law and pay the songwriter/publisher 100% of royalties due.

We believe that musicians desire to license properly; it’s a matter of providing some education and a utility that is easy to use. Designed by musicians for musicians, Limelight is both a resource (check out our FAQs here) and a service for helping to drive revenue for songwriters and grow the pie for the entire community. Read the rest of this entry »

A musician’s job is to create music, and nothing more. Any other responsibility corrupts his or her artistic integrity.

OK. That’s an adorable idea, but let’s get real. These days, artists are able to exercise individual control over each aspect of their careers, but that can be a lot of work. The good news is that technology has created lots of efficiencies in everything from recording, marketing, to booking. What once took huge teams now can now be accomplished with anyone with a decent laptop and an internet connection. Yet there are spaces where DIY hasn’t gained much of a foothold. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are were an independent artist ten years ago, and you wanted to cover a famous song, say, something like The Temptations’ “Just My Imagination,” you would have needed to find the original publisher or copyright administrator and go through a series of motions to clear your version. “It could be a daunting task,” says Patrick Sullivan, the founder of a service called Limelight, which today makes that process a lot easier.

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September 16, 2010 New York, NY – Jazz trumpeter Mark Rapp and guitarist/vocalist Derek Lee Bronston, collectively known as The Song Project, are releasing their brand new CD not as individual MP3‘s, but as a complete album experience in the form of an iPhone/iPad App via Apple’s App Store. These two musicians have defined their careers by innovating on their instruments, in composing and as players. It’s no surprise then, they would choose uncharted territory to release their debut recording. Read the rest of this entry »

“The Winners Take Advantage Of The Building Blocks To Generate Community And Commerce,” Says Patrick Sullivan, CEO of RightsFlow

Recently, I spoke with Patrick Sullivan, who is the cofounder, President, and CEO of RightsFlow, a mechanical licensing and royalty payment technology platform. In this interview, Sullivan talks about the romanticism of the traditional record industry, the barriers to licensing music in the past, and easy-to-use licensing is a necessary part of the emerging digital ecology of music culture. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington D.C. (September 7, 2010) Patrick Sullivan, RightsFlow’s President and CEO, will be a featured panelist at the 10^th Anniversary Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit (October 3 to 5; Washington DC).  The panel, scheduled for Tuesday, October 5^th from 3:45 to 5pm in Lohrfink Auditorium, is entitled “Partly Sunny with a Chance of Fog: Forecasting Music in the Cloud.”

“I’m excited to be a part of the Summit as it is especially meaningful for us since we were a involved when we were starting RightsFlow,” commented Sullivan.  “It’s always been an extremely productive atmosphere for stimulating conversation amongst musicians, policymakers, technologists, and leading-edge companies at the cross-section of music, technology, and law.” Read the rest of this entry »