Billboard: @MIDEM: RightsFlow, PRS For Music Sign Deal

Posted in News | 26 January 2010 | 0 Comments

RightsFlow, which provides mechanical licensing for labels and digital service providers, has signed a deal to identify and license PRS for Music works for mechanical uses in the U.S.

Since digital service providers began paying for streaming, subscription and advertising supported service in July, royalties can be held in escrow by DSPs, labels and aggregators. This deal can facilitate payment to the proper publishers and songwriters.

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Billboard: RightsFlow Inks New Indie Deals

Posted in News | 21 January 2009 | 0 Comments

New York, NY, January 21, 2009 – RightsFlow has signed on three new clients for its Outsourced Music Licensing system, FLOW: CAM, Creazioni Artistiche Musicale, an independent record label and music publisher based in Rome; La Cupula Music, or House Of Music, an independent digital distributor based in Barcelona; and New England-based United For Opportunity, a company offering distribution and other services to the independent label sector. All three deals were announced at the MIDEM convention.
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MIDEM: Stream of DPD deals for RightsFlow

Posted in News | 21 January 2009 | 0 Comments

January 21, 2009 – Music publisher and record label CAM, digital music distributor La Cupula Music and independent distributor United For Opportunity (UFO) have signed a deal with New York-based RightsFlow to help them handle their DPD (digital phonorecord delivery) licensing.
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MIDEM: Sullivan Predicts End of DRM

Posted in News | 30 January 2008 | 0 Comments

CANNES, Jan. 30 –- RightsFlow Entertainment Group principal Patrick Sullivan does not believe that music will all be free in the future but he is convinced that 2008 will see the end of DRM. “DRM is dead and I think we’ll see a move by a big company with a lot of investment capital, someone like Google, to force the issue this year,” he said.
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