Data company Quansic, which specialises in ISNI identifiers, is hoping that the world of music will endorse its new identifier named BOWI for musical works as...
By Emmanuel Legrand The increasing volume of data linked to the digital consumption of music on a wider range of platforms poses an existential threat to...
US neighbouring rights society SoundExchange has introduced an upgrade in its technologies to deal with the data exchange between record labels and music publishers. SoundExchange...
By Emmanuel LegrandData management company rightsHUB has launched an online music rights data enrichment tool, DataDoktor, which is designed to help music rights holders to "clean,...
Jarett Hines (left) and Bryson Nobles (photo credit: Todd Plitt) Jarett Hines and Bryson Nobles, co-founders of Music Tech Works, believe they have solved one of...
By Emmanuel LegrandGlobal record labels' trade body IFPI and four music licensing organisations in Asia have launched SoundSys, a cloud-based, fully scalable, shared system for the...
By Emmanuel LegrandIndependent music distribution company DistroKid has launched Upstream, a new service that connects record labels and artists looking to be signed. Upstream allows artists...
By Emmanuel LegrandUS rights societies ASCAP and BMI have unveiled SONGVIEW, a new data platform that provides music users with "an authoritative view of copyright ownership...
By Emmanuel LegrandThe Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has enlisted four music data companies to its Data Quality Initiative (DQI): Blokur, Exactuals, Music Data Services, and...
By Emmanuel LegrandMusic industry standard-setting organisation DDEX held back to back its 36th Plenary Meeting and 2nd Creator Credit Summit in November, both as virtual events....