The Royalty Network, an independent music publisher and administrator has granted a bulk license for its entire catalog to RightsFlow, a provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services. The deal allows RightsFlow to more accurately identify, account, and remit royalties on behalf of their over 9,500 label, distributor, music service and artist clients. In other moves this year, RightsFlow joined the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), which was formed in 2006 by major record labels, online music distributors and music rights societies to create standards to facilitate the exchange of metadata.

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RightsFlow, which provides mechanical licensing for labels and digital service providers, has signed a deal to identify and license PRS for Music works for mechanical uses in the U.S.

Since digital service providers began paying for streaming, subscription and advertising supported service in July, royalties can be held in escrow by DSPs, labels and aggregators. This deal can facilitate payment to the proper publishers and songwriters.

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New York, NY – April 4, 2009 – Despite the Copyright Royalty Board’s (CRB) amended determination on mechanical royalties for limited downloads and interactive streams, the leading trade groups involved in the June 2008 settlement that provided the basis for the rates say they plan to abide by the original settlement.
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New York, NY, March 23, 2009 – Sony/ATV Nashville has signed songwriter and producer Keith Stegall to a multi-year publishing agreement. Stegall has nine No. 1 singles to his credit as a writer, and 42 No. 1 as a producer, according to the press release announcing his signing He has produced a variety of albums that have collectively sold in excess of 60 million units, the announcement said. Currently, Stegall is in the studio with a new group, The Harters, and working on Clay Walker’s follow-up album to 2007’s Fall, among other projects that will soon be announced.
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New York, NY, March 4, 2009 – Licensing and royalty services company RightsFlow names Jason Walker manager of systems. He previously oversaw JWalker Sound.
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New York, NY, January 21, 2009 – RightsFlow has signed on three new clients for its Outsourced Music Licensing system, FLOW: CAM, Creazioni Artistiche Musicale, an independent record label and music publisher based in Rome; La Cupula Music, or House Of Music, an independent digital distributor based in Barcelona; and New England-based United For Opportunity, a company offering distribution and other services to the independent label sector. All three deals were announced at the MIDEM convention.
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Duncan Hutchison has joined RightsFlow as chief content officer, with the responsibilities for building and managing the label and distribution groups who use the company’s services.
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New York, NY, November 18, 2008 – Benjamin Cockerham has been named COO of New York-based RightsFlow, a company specializing in intellectual property licensing and copyright management.
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BFM Digital, a Valley Village, Calif.-based digital music aggregator, has hired New York-based RightsFlow, to handle their mechanical, streaming, ringtone, and digital phonorecord delivery licensing.
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EMI Music Group is joining forces with Blackstone Winery and RightsFlow to raise funds for World Hunger Year’s Artists Against Hunger and Poverty initiative. The charity initiative involves a Blackstone promotion that offers customers two free songs from more than 160,00 tracks provided by EMI. Each time a customer uses a redemption code to download the new music, Blackstone will make a donation to the WHY campaign. RightsFlow is managing the technology behind the program. The campaign will run through Jan. 31, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »