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Digital Data Exchange Establishes New Standards for Digital Music Sales

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2006 - 3:18pm.
New York - The Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), a consortium of record labels, music rights societies and digital service providers working to develop data exchange standards for the sale of digital music, has announced the establishment of its first four standards on information sharing and transaction processing for digital music.

The standards include an Electronic Release Notification Message Suite Standard (ERN), which provides information about musical works to digital music services; a Digital Sales Report Message Suite (DSR), which provides digital sales reports to record labels; and two other supporting standards that will aid the implementation of the ERN and DSR.

DDEX said its members - who include the four major record labels; ASCAP and the Harry Fox Agency; and Apple, Napster, RealNetworks and Microsoft - are already working to begin exchanging live information using the standards before the end of the year, with further roll-out by additional companies planned for the first half of 2007.

Related Links:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=173691
http://www.ddex.net

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