For collecting societies, DDEX has developed standards for the receipt of sales and usage reports, for the process of licensing musical works, and for communications between music licensing companies regarding repertoire and usage.
For record companies, DDEX has developed standards for providing information about releases and products, standards for receiving sales and usage reports, and standards for licensing musical works from publishers or music rights societies.
For digital retailers (DSP's), DDEX has developed standards for the receipt of releases and products from record companies, standards for sending sales and usage reports to record companies, societies and publishers, and standards for licensing musical works from publishers or music rights societies.
Intermediaries can be specialists in one or more transaction process and have developed to meet the needs of the growing digital supply chain. DDEX has developed standards to assist intermediaries with the exchange of information between record companies, digital retailers, music publishers and collecting societies. They can be used for any role the intermediary is fulfilling within the supply chain.
Independent study shows 66% reduction in key operations cost for digital music providers adopting DDEX standards. The full announcement is available here. To access the paper please fill in the form here.
DDEX, working with NARM and digitalmusic.org, is holding an open meeting at Music Biz 2013 on 8th May in Los Angeles on royalty and usage reporting to music publishers in the US market. See the agenda for details. RSVP
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