January 22, 2011:  The discussions that take place each winter at MIDEM, the international music industry trade fair and convention, affect the flow of repertoire and income throughout the global music business long afterward.  MIDEM and the digitally focused MidemNet Forum open for business Jan. 22-26 in Cannes. More than 10,000 executives from some 100 countries and sectors—including recording, publishing, live, synch, digital and mobile—are expected.  Here’s how 11 companies, from several international markets, used MIDEM to drive business forward.7digital (U.K.)

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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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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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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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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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