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 »

March 28, 2011, (NEW YORK) – RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, will sponsor and participate in the upcoming MEIEA/MEISA International Conference 2011 to be held April 1 & 2 in Universal City, California.  The company will kick things off Thursday night with a Limelight-sponsored MEISA reception poolside at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.  RightsFlow President/CEO Patrick Sullivan and SVP of Sales and Marketing Michael Kauffman will also participate in the Next Steps Expo and elsewhere throughout the conference. 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 »

There is a wealth of public domain Christmas music available, so if you want to avoid the hassle of tracking and paying royalties, you shouldn’t have any problems. I start by looking at the Public Domain website’s list of Christmas songs. Many Christmas hymns and spirituals are public domain, along with old traditional carols. A lot of times these melodies were written years before the lyrics were added and the tune became associated with Christmas (ie. Greensleeves).

Hymns and spirituals are great for instrumental albums, but won’t always work for vocalists. After all, many of the vocal standards recorded by Harry Connick, Jr. or Nat King Cole are secular pieces written by tin pan alley era composers or later. If you’re interested in recording songs that are not in the public domain, you will have to pay royalties. The easiest way to do this is by using Limelight, an online service that collects royalties and administers them to the copyright holders for you. For further reading, see my article on releasing cover songs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Royalty Network, a leading independent music publisher and administrator, and RightsFlow, a leading provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a new partnership granting RightsFlow a blanket license for The Royalty Network’s entire catalogue. This blanket access will allow RightsFlow to more accurately identify, account, and remit royalties on behalf of their over 9,500 label, distributor, music service and artist clients. The agreement marks a growing trend of independent music publishers engaging in new procedures to reduce administrative workload and improve efficiency.

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