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.
Often the most valuable tools you have as an entrepreneur are your network, relationships and mentors. Although starting and running a business is sure to be a learning process, finding out what has and what hasn’t for those who have been there and done that can save you a lot of time and hard lessons learned. Here, seven successful entrepreneurs share their best business advice for fellow entrepreneurs.
Patrick Sullivan, president and CEO of RightsFlow, a New York-based licensing and royalty service provider serving YouTube, Rhapsody, and Muzak, started the company in his apartment three years ago. Today, it is a multi-million dollar firm with more than two dozen employees on both coasts. His advice is to identify the “pain area” your customers have and provide them with a solution. Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK, NY (March 29, 2011) – Limelight, the online mechanical licensing utility powered by RightsFlow, will be demonstrated by Scott Sellwood, the company’s SVP and General Counsel, at the 2011 ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) New York Sessions March 31st at the 92nd Street Y in New York, NY.
The ASCAP event brings together top songwriters, composers, producers, publishers and industry executives for a one-day career-boosting event featuring educational panels, speakers and product demos. The day is designed to strengthen the skills, knowledge and success of music creators. Pricing for ASCAP New York Sessions begins at $55, and the event is open to all regardless of affiliation. For more information and to register, go to www.ascap.com/sessions.
When it launched in the fall of 2007, RightsFlow comprised four people working out of the living room of president/CEO Patrick Sullivan’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.Today, the company has established itself as a disruptive upstart in the growing field of mechanical rights management, employing a staff of 23 and capable of processing licenses for 30 million compositions owned or administered by 60,000 publishers.
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(NEW YORK) – The Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA), Intercollegiate Record Label Association (IRLA), and leading licensing and royalty service provider RightsFlow have partnered on a fall educational and promotional campaign called “In The Limelight”. Participating university record labels and local Music & Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA) chapters will launch marketing efforts this month targeting student musicians, bands and choirs with information on the need for mechanical licensing when covering and releasing songs. The initiative will also drive awareness and adoption of Limelight, RightsFlow’s online mechanical licensing utility that provides a simple way for artists and bands to clear any cover song. Read the rest of this entry »
The digital age of music has introduced new legal forms of music consumption that do not correlate clearly with the previous licensing laws. These old laws were created at a time when the recorded music industry revolved around physical sales and traditional radio play. They do not address, however, services like Rhapsody, where streaming audio is not public performance, nor is it a transaction of ownership. In some cases, these gray areas have allowed royalties to slip through the cracks, never reaching the hands of the rightful copyright owner. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, I spoke with Patrick Sullivan, who is the cofounder, President, and CEO of RightsFlow, a mechanical licensing and royalty payment technology platform. In this interview, Sullivan talks about the romanticism of the traditional record industry, the barriers to licensing music in the past, and easy-to-use licensing is a necessary part of the emerging digital ecology of music culture. Read the rest of this entry »
Compilation Features Over 30 New Orleans-Inspired Original and Cover Songs from My Morning Jacket, OK Go, Indigo Girls, Steve Earle, Nellie McKay, Bonnie ’Prince‘ Billy, Nicole Atkins, Mike Mills, Bonerama, Tom Morello:The Nightwatchman, Flobots, The Wrens and More
Available for Download on Tuesday, August 24th at www.dearneworleansmusic.org,
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August 21, 2010 – Billboard’s Power Players special feature 30 Under 30 recognizes rising young executives who are driving our business forward with their artistic and business vision. In five previous annual features, 30 Under 30 has spotlighted numerous 20-something executive stars to watch. (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, then 23, was featured in 2007.)
This year, once again, you helped create this list. Our readers submitted nearly 200 nominations at Billboard.biz. Then a team of Billboard editors reviewed every eligible nomination and numerically ranked the nominees according to their achievements in the past 12 months and the nominees’ leadership within the broader industry, as described in their nomination. The alphabetical 30 Under 30 list here represents the collective wisdom of Billboard’s editors.
As in previous years, it’s notable that many of this year’s honorees are heading their own companies, often in the digital or branding space. Many others are in the touring business, which has proved to be one of the more resilient music industry sectors.
While certainly many outstanding young executives did not make our list, the nominations we received affirmed the wealth of talent rising through the music business, a strong sign of promise for the years ahead.
This year’s 30 Under 30 list:
Ben Cockerham
CFO/chief strategy officer, RightsFlow
Music licensing and royalty payment service provider RightsFlow is a company on the move, led by co-founders Ben Cockerham, who acts as CFO/chief strategy officer, and Patrick Sullivan, who is president. It reported revenue that was up 405% in first-quarter 2010, compared with the same period of 2009, while the number of clients has grown from 1,500 to 10,000. Cockerham, 29, has guided the company into background music, international rights clearance and reporting, master clearance, mobile clearance and user-generated content clearance. As RightsFlow has grown, Cockerham has helped shape industry discussions of copyright in the digital age. A graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business, Cockerham met Sullivan at eMusic, where they conceived RightsFlow. “We thought there had to be a simpler way to license music and pay royalties,” he says. “And, lo and behold, there was.”
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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 »
