DDEX

I’m a collecting society
I’m a record company
I’m a digital retailer
I’m an intermediary

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Past, Present and Future

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DDEX is a consortium of leading media companies, music licensing organisations, digital service providers and technical intermediaries, focused on the creation of digital supply chain standards.

On 16th February 2012 DDEX published two "Profile" standards that define how specific types of products are to be communicated using the Release Notification Message Suite Standard. At the same time, DDEX published an update to said Release Notification Message Suite Standard and its Sales Reporting Messaging Suite standards.

Standardising the digital supply chain

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Past, Present and Future

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