RightsFlow, a leading provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, announced a deal to handle Canadian royalty reporting for Amie Street, the fast growing online digital music retailer with a one-of-a-kind demand based pricing system.

RightsFlow will assist Amie Street by providing licensing and reporting services to CMRRA/SODRAC, Inc. (collectively known as “CSI”) on Amie Street’s behalf for downloads in Canada, as outlined in accordance with CSI’s Online Music Services Tariff, 2005-2007.

“RightsFlow’s technology and service solution fills a key need for Amie Street’s effort to automate the royalty administration process for Canadian sales,” said Peter Asbill, Chief Content Officer of Amie Street. “We’ve had strong customer growth because of our unique community driven pricing model and are excited to utilize a cost-effective system that will save us significant time and money as we continue to grow.”

“We are delighted to work with a forward-thinking company like Amie Street,” said Patrick Sullivan, CEO of RightsFlow. “We look forward to demonstrating how RightsFlow’s proven, simple service can provide a cost-effective solution for mechanical licensing compliance and royalty accounting for Amie Street.”

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New York, NY – May 23, 2009 – The royalty processing and licensing company RightsFlow has formed a strategic partnership with Muzak to help manage the latter’s licensing and accounting. RightsFlow, a New York-based company that launched in October 2007, will supplement the efforts of Muzak’s in-house licensing staff. The deal comes three months after the Fort Mill, S.C.-based Muzak, which provides music to 400,000 retail stores, filed Feb. 10 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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BFM Digital, a Valley Village, Calif.-based digital music aggregator, has hired New York-based RightsFlow, to handle their mechanical, streaming, ringtone, and digital phonorecord delivery licensing.
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New York, NY, October 29, 2008 – BFM Digital, a leading digital music aggregator and distributor of independent music, has signed with RightsFlow, an outsourced licensing solution for mechanical, streaming, ringtone, and Digital Phonorecord Delivery (DPD) licensing, to handle their DPD licensing needs through RightsFlow’s proprietary “FLOW” system. BFM Digital will now offer the DPD licensing service to its label clients.
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Title: DCIA P2P Video Conference at Digital Hollywood Fall
Location: Santa Monica, CA
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Description: Panel Title: “Next Generation P2P Music, TV and Film – DRM, Paid for Pass-Along, Ad-Based and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries”
Panel Date: October 27th, 2009
Panel Location: Santa Monica, CA
Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
This panel discussed the role of P2P companies and whether they should take any responsibility for the actions of their members, in addition to addressing the roles and responsibilities of ISP’s and how they impact the industry with their business.
Other Panelists
Marty Lafferty, CEO, Distributed Computing Industry Association (Panel Moderator)
Bill Wishon, Director of Marketing, Kontiki
John Jones, Senior Vice President of Programming, Artist and Label Relations, MediaNet Digital
Ronny Golan, Co-Founder & CEO, HIRO Media
Johan Ryman, Director of Sales & Partnerships, Octoshape
Scott Sahadi, CEO, ioko North America
Michael King, CEO, Abacast
Start Date: 200-10-27
End Date: 200-10-30

Title: College Music Journal (CMJ) Music Marathon
Location: New York, NY
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Description: Panel Title: “Who’s Up for a Pub Crawl?”
Panel Date: October 21st, 2008
Panel Location: New York, NY
Panelist/Moderator: Alex Holz, Director of Client Relations (Panelist)
Summary:
The panel discussed music publishing in the context of ‘pub crawls’ focusing on the social aspect of publishing and the importance of strong relationships. The panel also allowed musicians and artists to play their music and receive feedback from the panel regarding the potential publishing uses for each.
Other Panelists:
Dave Pichilingi, Liverpool Sound City / Livewire Capital / Sentric Music (Panel Moderator)
Sara Kapuchinski, Stage 3 Music
Ron Perry, Songs Publishing
Jessica Sobhraj, SirGroovy
Jeremy Yohai, Downtown Publishing
Date: 2008-10-21

Title: College Music Journal (CMJ) Music Marathon
Location: New York, NY
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Description: Panel Title: “Global Mobile Music Business”
Panel Date: October 24th, 2008
Panel Location: New York, NY
Panelist/Moderator: Patrick Sullivan, President of RightsFlow (Panelist)
Summary:
The panel addressed issues concerning the growth of mobile applications and use in today’s world and considerations were made about the future of mobile revenues, which have been expected to grow dramatically over the next five years.
Other Panelists:
Stephen Block, VP Business Affairs and Senior Counsel, HFA (Panel Moderator)
Are Traasdahl, CEO, Thumbplay
James Williams, Senior Contract Administrator, Business & Legal Affairs, Cherry Lane Music
Date: 2008-10-21

EMI Music Group is joining forces with Blackstone Winery and RightsFlow to raise funds for World Hunger Year’s Artists Against Hunger and Poverty initiative. The charity initiative involves a Blackstone promotion that offers customers two free songs from more than 160,00 tracks provided by EMI. Each time a customer uses a redemption code to download the new music, Blackstone will make a donation to the WHY campaign. RightsFlow is managing the technology behind the program. The campaign will run through Jan. 31, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Sullivan will be a guest speaker at this year’s Digital Hollywood event, being held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel from October 27th-30th.

The event will cover new trends in music, film, television, and entertainment media and feature key guest speakers from all areas.
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A couple of European digital aggregators have signed up to use RightsFlow for digital phonorecord delivery licensing and royalty services for the U.S. marketplace.

Berlin-based Zebralution, which serves as a digital distributor for independent labels, will use RightsFlow’s Outsourced Music Licensing system to handle DPD licensing to U.S. music service providers, and provide accounting and royalties back to Zebralution, which will offer those services to its labels.
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