New York, NY August 2, 2010 – Limelight, an online mechanical licensing and reporting  platform powered by RightsFlow, announced today that it is seeing worldwide adoption in under nine months with users in all 50 states and in more than 46 countries.  Through its proprietary automated licensing system, the service helps bands, choirs and other musical groups obtain the necessary mechanical license for any song, from any publisher (including international publishers), reaching 100% of the publishing market.  Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Sellwood is the Sr. VP and General Counsel of RightsFlow, Inc.  Prior to being at RightsFlow Scott was practicing law part time and playing in a band called “Saturday Looks Good to Me” who released albums on both Polyvinyl and K Records.  I wanted to speak to Scott because of his unique career and because of RightsFlow’s new product Limelight. Read the rest of this entry »

Ultra International Music Publishing has cut a deal to provide its catalog of hip-hop, R&B, reggae, latin and dance music to Muzak’s platform of customized playlists.  Muzak creates customized music playlists for 350,000 clients that are experienced by 100 million people every day, according to the company, which uses Rightsflow to license and track royalty payments.  Ultra’s song catalog includes “Blame It” performed by Jamie Fox feat T Pain and “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” performed by Pitbull.

By Ed Christman

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April 29, 2010 New York, NY – As the digital music marketplace has grown in importance, digital rights administration is central to music creators monetizing their works. In an upcoming Q&A on May 11 with MusicDish founder Eric de Fontenay, RightsFlow President and CEO Patrick Sullivan will discuss the process by which publishers and songwriters are getting paid in the era of online music services such as iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and Napster.

“While digital rights administration is at the core of today’s music business, it is still an area largely misunderstood and neglected,” noted Eric de Fontenay. “If you don’t have a handle on your rights administration, all the marketing and social networking won’t mean much to your bottom line. RightsFlow has been a leader in this field and we are honored to have Patrick share with our audience his extensive experience in industry negotiations, licensing and royalty payments.” Read the rest of this entry »