Beatport and RightsFlow Sign Global Reporting Deal

NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RightsFlow, a leading provider of bulk mechanical licensing and royalty services, today announced a deal to provide global society reporting services for Beatport, the leading international dance music digital retailer.

Music services that operate internationally are often required to report territorial uses to local performance, mechanical and neighboring rights societies. RightsFlow will facilitate this service for Beatport by reporting to rights societies worldwide.

"Over the last six years Beatport has helped change how DJ's get their music globally," said Matthew Adell, Beatport's Chief Operating Officer. "With our continued global growth, RightsFlow offers us a comprehensive solution for reporting to rights societies around the world so that we can continue to be a leader in making sure that musicians and songwriters are properly paid and accounted to for their work."

Matt Irvin, RightsFlow's Vice-President of Business Solutions and Products, added, "We're thrilled to provide this service to Beatport simplifying the cumbersome task of international society reporting.  This deal signifies a major step forward in our global reporting services, and will enable Beatport to focus on customer needs, rather than the resource-heavy process of data reporting."

Beatport is a leading international online music service, offering hi-speed, high quality music downloads to DJ's and fans alike of dance and electronic music.

RightsFlow are leading experts in mechanical licensing, simplifying how rights holders get paid.  RightsFlow's proprietary FLOW technology provides a cost-effective channel connecting societies and companies that sell or distribute music and has been widely adopted by labels, artists and global businesses.

About Beatport

www.beatport.com

Beatport is the recognized leader of electronic music downloads by DJ's and fans alike delivering content in premium-encoded formats that match the professional performance quality standards of the world's leading sound systems. Beatport.com allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis from an impressive library of the world's leading independent labels.

About RightsFlow

www.rightsflow.com

RightsFlow is a leading provider of mechanical licensing services and royalty payment technology for online music services, record companies, distributors and artists.  Our technology powers rapid song identification providing unprecedented transparency for both licensees and licensors.  Currently serving over 9,500 clients globally.

SOURCE RightsFlow