April 29, 2010 New York, NY – As the digital music marketplace has grown in importance, digital rights administration is central to music creators monetizing their works. In an upcoming Q&A on May 11 with MusicDish founder Eric de Fontenay, RightsFlow President and CEO Patrick Sullivan will discuss the process by which publishers and songwriters are getting paid in the era of online music services such as iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and Napster.

“While digital rights administration is at the core of today’s music business, it is still an area largely misunderstood and neglected,” noted Eric de Fontenay. “If you don’t have a handle on your rights administration, all the marketing and social networking won’t mean much to your bottom line. RightsFlow has been a leader in this field and we are honored to have Patrick share with our audience his extensive experience in industry negotiations, licensing and royalty payments.” Read the rest of this entry »

Location: New York, NY
When: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Time: 6:00-9:00
Where: Gonzalez y Gonzalez
625 Broadway, between Houston & Bleecker
New York, NY

RSVP: http://dmnymay2010.eventbrite.com

Digital Music NY Q&A With Patrick Sullivan
Sponsored by Many Moods Productions & Limelight
Presented by MusicDish and Fortex Group
Drink Specials courtesy of Riazul Premium Tequila

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When John Boydston got an e-mail from SoundExchange saying he had several thousand dollars in unclaimed royalties, he did what most sensible people would do. He ignored it.

To the rock musician from Atlanta, “money for nothing” meant a song by Dire Straits, not a stranger contacting him out of the blue promising to cut him big checks.

Read the Article at latimes.com

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Lack Of A Centralized Song Database Stymies Digital Licensing.

A year after the Copyright Royalty Board set rates for subscription downloads and interactive streaming, digital licensing and payment accounting is still proving to be a trying task in the U.S. marketplace.

Not surprisingly, the lack of a common database containing metadata for all songs is still a big obstacle, even though it should be easier to create one in the United States than in Europe, where there are more than two dozen performance and reproduction rights societies.

It’s a topic that weighed heavily on the minds of panelists at a National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers’ Salon Series event held Feb. 22 in New York. The gathering was the second in a planned series of industry get-togethers that NARM is holding to address issues of concern to member companies.

The discussion “validated the urgent need for the industry to work collaboratively on streamlining business practices and adopting operational standards that will take costs out of the system and help advance the digital marketplace,” NARM president Jim Donio said in a statement.

Digital service providers have to license music and pay royalties directly to publishers for music consumed through subscription services and ad-supported Web sites. As a result, the lack of a central database continues to stymie the marketplace, NARM panelists said. Read the rest of this entry »

Title: Digital Distribution- Getting Paid
Location: Nashville, TN
When: Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Time: 4:00 – 5:00
Where: ASCAP – First Floor Conference Room
Moderator: John Barker
Panelist: Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Maurice Russel, VP Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency

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Title: Digital Music Forum East
Location: New York , NY

Time: 4:45-5:30
Link out: Click here

Summary:

PANEL 6B: Rights, Royalties & Reporting in the Digital World
With so many digital products today, the business has become one of micro transactions and the process of licensing rights and collecting, administering and reporting royalties is far from what it should be. This panel will discuss issues related to rights, royalties and reporting in the digital world.  What are the key problems that need to be addressed? What needs to happen to create a better system that provides accuracy, transparency, and accountability for all aspects of rights and royalty administration?

Other Panelists:

Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Michael Huppe, EVP & General Counsel, SoundExchange
Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
Richard Conlon, VP, New Media & Strategic Development, BMI
Michael Huppe, EVP & General Counsel, SoundExchange
Moderator: David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLC

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NARM held its second Salon Series event before a packed room at the Soho House NY on February 22. A panel of experts that represented BMI, CBS Interactive, HFA, RightsFlow, Roadrunner Records, The Songwriters Guild of America, and SoundExchange discussed the topic of streamlining digital licensing. Standardization of digital licensing was a key point during the discussion and NARM will be planning future events to advance this topic forward.

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How to continue to drive growth in your business, even during a recession.

Patrick Sullivan and his business partner didn’t pick a great time to start their digital-music royalty tracking service – it was late 2007 when they founded New York City-based Rightsflow. But that hasn’t stopped the company from growing. At the end of 2009, Rightsflow had grown tenfold during the year and Sullivan expected revenue to quadruple in 2010.

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Title: Streamlining Digital Licensing

Date & Time: 2/22/10 4:00 PM

Location:

Soho House
29-35 Ninth Avenue
New York
NY 10014

Link: Click here

Description

Join us as industry experts examine the issues surrounding the difficult task of licensing large-volume catalogs of music publishing for today’s digital and mobile business models. Our panel will discuss how companies can better navigate the terrain in order to succeed in the ever-changing and challenging digital music landscape.

Panelist
Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
-Stephen Hillenbrandt, SVP Business Affairs and Deputy General Counsel, CBS Radio
-Richard Conlon, VP, New Media & Strategic Development, BMI New York
-Douglas Keogh, EVP/ GM, Roadrunner Records
-Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
-John Simson, Executive Director, SoundExchange

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Title: Buenos Aires Feria Internacional De La Música
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