September 16, 2010 New York, NY – Jazz trumpeter Mark Rapp and guitarist/vocalist Derek Lee Bronston, collectively known as The Song Project, are releasing their brand new CD not as individual MP3‘s, but as a complete album experience in the form of an iPhone/iPad App via Apple’s App Store. These two musicians have defined their careers by innovating on their instruments, in composing and as players. It’s no surprise then, they would choose uncharted territory to release their debut recording. Read the rest of this entry »

RightsFlow Providing Full Mechanical Licensing and Administration For Rhapsody’s Digital Music Subscription Service

New York, NY, July 6, 2010 – RightsFlow, a leading provider of licensing and royalty services, announced today an agreement to provide bulk mechanical licensing and administration and reporting support for Rhapsody, the leading online music subscription service.  The deal will provide Rhapsody with additional tools and solutions for mechanical licensing and content management services for publishing rights in the United States.

Rhapsody offers subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than nine million songs, whether they’re listening on a PC, laptop, internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone (including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android-powered headsets).  Rhapsody subscribers can access their music through more touch-points than any other digital music service. Read the rest of this entry »

Nashville-based Music Services, a Christian music publisher, has inked a partnership with New York-based RightsFlow.

RightsFlow will identify and account for the use of works in Music Services’ catalog on online music services.

Music Services President Phil Perkins said in a news release that the partnership will reduce the company’s administrative burden and also help it collect royalties for clients that otherwise would go uncollected.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read the rest of this entry »

New York, NY- January 14, 2010 – Mechanical licensing and royalty services provider RightsFlow added Michael Kauffman as VP of sales and marketing. Kauffman was most recently led account management, marketing and social media strategy at the HiFive Group in New York. Prior to that he held senior sales and management positions with the Verve Music Group and Windham Hill Records.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Michael to our senior management team,” Patrick Sullivan, RightsFlow’s CEO, said in a statement. “His addition significantly impacts our ability to deliver B2B and B2C campaigns and initiatives that will fuel both company growth and client satisfaction.”

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Title: AIMP Panels
Location: New York, NY
Link out: Click here
Description: Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)

Summary:

This panel will discuss how digital distributors have stepped into the mechanical licensing role ensuring that publishers and songwriters get paid for online music distributions. Typical distributors have not taken on this responsibility in the physical world, but with the digitalization of music the business practice has changed. We will explore how services such as iTunes don’t pay publishers directly and pass-through mechanical royalties to labels and distributors with no accountability back to publishers and songwriters. Panelists will discuss how their companies have the ability to license, account and pay publishers through the services they offer.

Other Panelists:

Helene Blue, Helene Blue Musique Ltd. (Moderator)
Erik Gilbert,VP of Content, IODA
Maurice Russell VP, Licensing, Collection & Business Affairs, HFA
Stanley Schneider, Esq, Attorney
Date: 2009-09-16