Just as driving a school bus, flying an airplane, and operating heavy machinery (legally!) require the appropriate credentials, specific licenses are required to legally distribute, adapt, and publicly perform music. Knowing which licenses exist and how to obtain them can save headaches, aggravation, and most importantly – legal fees incurred from copyright violations (money that we’d all rather spend on cool instruments and better recording gear!) Read the rest of this entry »

An amazing number of CD Baby artists have achieved success through their version of a cover song. Covers provide an opportunity to be discovered by fans searching for a well-known song. It’s a great way to introduce your act, and can open the door to someone discovering your original music, but you do have to acquire the rights first. In this episode, Scott Sellwood of RightsFlow walks us through how to properly license a cover song. Even if you have licensed a cover in the past for CDs, Scott helps to make sense of the different types of licenses needed in the digital age.  Need to license a cover song?  Check out the Limelight service by RightsFlow here – http://rightsflow.com/

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IT’S A DEAL: CD Baby and manufacturing partner Disc Makers have adopted RightsFlow’s Limelight, a one-stop online clearance form for artists and labels looking to clear cover songs for physical releases, digital downloads and ringtones, cutting through the confusion of licensing with domestic and international publishers and songwriters directly. CD Baby and Disc Makers will provide direct linkage and integration of the service within their user platform. The deal was announced by RightsFlow’s Scott Sellwood and CDBaby parent Audio/Video Labs President/CEO Tony van Veen, who marked the occasion by canceling their Billboard subscription. Read the rest of this entry »

March 17^th, 2010, New York, NY – CD Baby, one of the largest digital distributors for independent music, and Disc Makers, the leading independent CD and DVD manufacturer, have adopted Limelight (http://limelight.rightsflow.com), an online clearance form for artists and labels looking to clear cover songs.

Limelight, which is powered by RightsFlow, provides artists and labels a simple, easy method to clear cover songs and third-party compositions for physical releases, digital downloads, and ringtones, reducing the complexity of licensing with domestic and international publishers and songwriters directly.  CD Baby and Disc Makers will take advantage of the service by providing direct linkage and integration of the service within their user platform. Read the rest of this entry »

RightsFlow, a provider of mechanical licensing services and royalty payment technology, will provide its Limelight system to CD Baby, an independent digital distributor, and Disc Makers, a CD and DVD manufacturer, so that its label customers can have an online clearance place to get licensing for cover songs and third party composition. Both CD Baby and Disc Makers will provide direct linkage and integration of the service within their user platform. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK, August 20, 2008 –- CD Baby, one of the largest sellers of independent music in the world, and RightsFlow, a one-stop solution for mechanical and Digital Phonorecord Delivery (DPD) licensing and royalty processing for US distributions, have entered into an outsourced licensing partnership. This relationship allows the more than 240,000 artists worldwide that CD Baby distributes in the US to license, account, and pay music publishers for download sales through online retailers including Apple iTunes and other digital download sellers like Amazon MP3, Napster, and Rhapsody.
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New York, NY, August 20, 2008 –- CD Baby, a unit of Disc Makers that operates a CD and download store for independent artists, on Wednesday announced a partnership with RightsFlow, a provider of online digital music licensing and royalty processing services for U.S. distributors. Under the deal, the 240,000 artists using CD Baby will be able to license, account and pay music publishers for download sales through online retailers including iTunes and Amazon MP3.
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