NEW YORK CITY, NY (June 17, 2011) – Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO at RightsFlow, will be moderating the panel “How Does The US Do Digital” as part of the AIM /UKTI Digital Music Mission to New York on Monday June 20^th 2011 from 10 – 11am. Joining Mr. Sullivan will be panelists from The Orchard, Iris Distribution, eMusic, and TAG Strategic. The panel is aimed at discussing the key difference between the digital markets in the US and the UK.

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RightsFlow’s Online Mechanical Licensing Utility to Now Share Up To 30% of Its Service Fees

June 14, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) Limelight, the simple online mechanical licensing clearance utility powered by RightsFlow, has launched a first-ever partnership opportunity for publishers and songwriters to expand revenues from the service by sharing in the administration fees being paid by its users.  Participating publishers will earn “Royalty Plus” revenue entirely incremental to the millions of dollars in mechanical royalties currently being collected and paid out by the company.  The new program is entirely voluntary and non-exclusive while allowing for flexible payment methods and channels.

NEW YORK, NY (June 9, 2011) RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, announced an agreement today with REBEAT Digital, an innovative Austrian-based software platform for digital distribution.  RightsFlow will handle all aspects of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting and payment for REBEAT’s expanding U.S. sales.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 09, 2011) - Scott Sellwood, SVP and Senior Counsel at RightsFlow, will be joining A Cappella Records founder and president Chris Crawford to co-present “Rights and Wrongs: Performing, Recording, and Releasing Music Legally in a Digital World” as a part of this year’s Chorus America Conference.

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NEW YORK, NY (June 02, 2011) RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, announced an agreement today with Qello, a new cloud based multi-platform digital syndication service.  The deal provides Qello with a one-stop service for royalty reporting, ensuring that rightsholders are properly compensated for the use of their creative work regardless of the platform.  Qello has already secured arrangements with the three Performance Rights Societies in the US: BMI, ASCAP and SESAC.  Qello maintains the largest catalog of HD concert films ranging from The Rolling Stones to Eminem, and now unlocks the value of these classic and new HD concert films, as well as other entertainment programming, by monetizing these assets across multiple devices, including tablet, mobile, IPTV, web, and gaming console markets.  Qello makes finding your favorite concert films easy – whenever and wherever you roam.

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May 18, 2011 – New York, NY: RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, has hired Chris Potter for the position of Director of Marketing.  Potter will be responsible for the development and execution of cross-platform marketing programs and analytics for RightsFlow’s broad suite of services and products including enterprise bulk licensing, and Limelight, the company’s online cover song clearance utility.

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9th annual Stevie® Awards will be presented on June 20 in New York City

NEW YORK, NY – May 16, 2011 – Limelight (www.songclearance.com), a service of RightsFlow, was named a Finalist in the Best New Product or Service category of The 2011 American Business Awards.

More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year. RightsFlow’s Limelight service is nominated in the New Product or Service of the Year category for Media & Entertainment.

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May 6, 2011 (LOS ANGELES) – A2IM and NARM are once again partnering to offer the perennially popular Music Business Crash Course as a part of this year’s NARM Convention. The Crash Course is to be held Monday, May 9th through Tuesday, May 10th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, the NARM Convention hotel headquarters. One of the most highly reviewed programs of the convention, the Crash Course features educational presentations and panel discussions focused on the independent sector.

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Some 500 people turned out at the Hynes Convention Center for the two day conference hosted by Berklee College of Music and Reed MIDEM, to hear top executives, internet entrepreneurs and a smattering of musicians like Mike Mills of R.E.M. talk about where the industry is going next. The Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and the Harvard Business School were also sponsors.

Much of the day’s talk centered on matters invisible to consumers, like licensing difficulties and the business challenges new services such as streaming music present.

[The panelists] encouraged artists to tie their information to the work they create, via metadata and registration. The task has typically been left to the record companies, but in the new world of digital and independent media, that doesn’t work anymore.

“That information, from creation, needs to flow upstream,” said Patrick Sullivan, CEO of Rightsflow. “It’s easily transferable. It’s not like we need a megabyte.”

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LOS ANGELES, CA (April 27, 2011) – RightsFlow execs Patrick Sullivan (President and CEO) and Michael Kauffman (SVP, Sales and Marketing) will offer up their expertise via featured speaking engagements at this week’s ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo.  The expo, which runs from April 28th – 30th at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, offers three days of education, networking and inspiration for musicians and music industry professionals.

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