LONDON / NEW YORK: PRS for Music, the UK organization that collects and pays royalties to 70,000 song-writing and composing members, and RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, have implemented a DDEX standardized Digital Sales Reporting (DSR) platform allowing for quick and transparent data transmission between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and the royalty collection organization.
Digital Data Exchange (“DDEX”), a consortium of leading media companies, music licensing organisations and digital service providers focused on creating digital supply chain data standards for common use, today announced that several digital music retailers, labels and other rights owners have made strategic commitments to begin using the DDEX content and metadata messaging specification as part of their digital music supply chain infrastructure.
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.
