First Cover Contest For Indaba Musician Community;

To Highlight Limelight Service, RightsFlow’s Online Mechanical License Clearance Utility

NEW YORK, NY (October 27, 2011) Indaba Music, the top online destination for music creation, and RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, have combined their efforts to launch a cover song contest providing Indaba’s 600,000 member musician community with an opportunity to submit their covers for possible licensing and release revenues.

Between now and December 1, Indaba will select one weekly winner to be featured on a cover song EP which Indaba will release via iTunes and on-demand CD pressing, and promote to online radio partners including Jelli Radio.

A Grand Prize winner will also receive Limelight mechanical licensing services and additional support from RightsFlow including a Master Class on publishing by Alex Holz, the company’s VP of Artist & Community Relations.  Additional information and terms on the project can be viewed on the Indaba site here.

“This cover song opportunity with RightsFlow gives our community a new avenue to expand their repertoire and gain new listeners,” said Josh Robertson, Indaba VP of Content and Programming.  “Covers are a key part in most musicians’ repertoires, so it’s also important that they know about services such as Limelight to properly license those recordings.”

Limelight’s Holz added, “A compelling cover song can be instrumental in driving awareness and success for an artist.  We’re proud to be helping the talented Indaba musician community to pursue their chosen artistic directions while also ensuring that songwriters and publishers are paid 100% of mechanical royalties due.”

Limelight has experienced rapid growth and substantial global adoption by thousands of users in all 50 states and over 150 countries.  The service allows users to obtain licenses for physical releases, digital downloads, ringtones and interactive streaming use, reducing the complexity of licensing, and offers several key features including licenses that don’t expire, competitive fees, and coverage of 100% of the publishing market.

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About Indaba Music

www.indabamusic.com

Indaba Music pioneered the online music collaboration space, enabling anyone with internet access to connect with musicians from around the world to create, edit and mix studio-quality music online. Indaba Music then expanded to provide musicians with opportunities from iTunes distribution and other sales tools to remix contests, original song contests and commercial music licensing. Indaba Music’s community has over 600,000 members from 205 countries and territories.

Indaba Music Contact:

Laurie Jakobsen

646-484-6764

laurie@jaybirdcom.com

About RightsFlow
www.rightsflow.com

RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled licensing and royalty service provider for artists, record labels, distributors, and online music companies. Our technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licensees and licensors.  RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary “FLOW” licensing technology and 30-million song database allow us to serve over 16,000 clients obtaining licenses from publishers and songwriters all over the world – including major, independent and artist controlled works.

RightsFlow also powers:

• Limelight (www.songclearance.com), its online mechanical licensing utility providing the simplest way for musicians, bands, choirs and labels to clear any cover song.
• MySpark Copyright (www.mysparkcopyright.com), the right way to register and protect your intellectual property; simplifying copyright registration for content owners and creators.

Clients include YouTube, Rhapsody, Clear Channel, Muzak, The Orchard, Tunecore, INgrooves, 7 Digital, Wolfgang’s Vault, Copyright Clearance Center, Christian Copyright Solutions, Guvera, Dada Entertainment/Play.ME, Scattertunes, Alliance, Kontor New Media, Beatport, Zebralution, E1 Canada, CD Baby, Disc Makers, Qello, IRIS, REBEAT, & X5 Music Group.

RightsFlow is a member of AIM, A2IM, ASCAP, Chorus America, DDEX, DiMA, MEIEA, NAB, NAfME, NAMM, and NARM.

RightsFlow is headquartered in NYC and has offices in San Francisco and Atlanta.

Contact for RightsFlow:

Michael Kauffman / SVP of Corporate Communications & Content

+1-646-461-6397

michael.kauffman@rightsflow.com

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RightsFlow’s Online Mechanical Licensing Utility Enhances The Customer Experience With A New Design And New Features

August 29, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) RightsFlow, the leading licensing and royalty service provider, today launched a new suite of updates and features for Limelight (www.songclearance.com), its online mechanical licensing utility. Musicians, bands, labels, choirs, and allother musical groups will now experience additional important time-saving efficiencies and enhancements on the website: Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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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.”

Check out the full article here.

APRIL 26th, 2011 (BOSTON) – RightsFlow CEO Patrick Sullivan participated today in a panel discussion with fellow industry experts on how the evolving landscape of copyright law, licensing reform, and non-traditional business models affect rights owners and licensees. The panel took place as a part of the Rethink Music Conference, an event aimed at focusing on “Creativity, Commerce and Policy in the 21st Century”. Read the rest of this entry »

Recorded music sales have declined, but the demand for music is increasing. Recognizing additional revenue sources and fostering the relationship between fan and artist are keys to the survival of the music industry.

“You are leaving money on the table if you don’t have a bucket under every single revenue drip.”

-Scott Sellwood, senior VP, RightsFlow

We are 10-plus years into the digital music age, and recorded music revenue has continued its decline. The illegal downloading of music prospers seemingly unabated. Licensed digital music services have taken hold with listeners but have not picked up the slack in lost sales. For traditional record labels, this is a challenging and cathartic time; but for music fans, it is also an age of great abundance.

Read the full article at berklee.edu

April 12, 2011, (NEW YORK) – RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, has selected Florida State University’s “Renegade State Records” as the winner in the company’s “In The Limelight” promotion.  Local chapters of the Music & Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA), and the Intercollegiate Record Label Association (IRLA) were invited to develop and execute marketing campaigns for RightsFlow’s online mechanical licensing utility Limelight.   The campaigns ran at the end of 2010 with the winner officially announced at the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) and MEISA Annual Conference last week in Los Angeles, California.

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Now, users of copyright.com have a fast, easy way to license cover songs and third-party compositions for release in the U.S. Today, Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. is announcing a partnership with music licensing and royalty service provider RightsFlow to refer customers interested in music licensing to Limelight, an online mechanical licensing clearance utility for musicians, bands, record labels, choirs, a cappella and other musical groups worldwide.

In an interview with Scott Sellwood, Rightsflow General Counsel, Chris Kenneally learns how “cover songs” have become more important than ever to new artists caught up in the phenomena of “American Idol” and “Glee.” Sellwood, a musician himself, ends the interview with a number from his own non-legal portfolio.

Listen to the interview at copyright clearance center.

Danvers, Mass. – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, has partnered with music licensing and royalty service provider RightsFlow.
CCC will refer business and academic users interested in cover song licensing to RightsFlow’s utility Limelight via links on copyright.com and through collaborative marketing outreach.

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