News - 13/05/2016

Will new Youtube tool for ‘faster, more accurate royalty distributions’ cool controversies over payments?

Will new Youtube tool for ‘faster, more accurate royalty distributions’ cool controversies over payments?

Youtube announced the launch of a new technology aimed at ensuring  a "faster and more accurate payout and distribution of royalties". More precisely, the new technical release is an implementation and validation tool for DDEX’s Digital Sales Report Flat File (DSRF) -  the industry standard format used to report sales to right owners and music licensors for audio and audio-visual content. Youtube explained an open source tool (available at https://github.com/ddexnet/dsrf) was specifically customised to lower the cost of processing  streaming data.

In an official press release, YouTube commented: “A single format can support a broad variety of requirements, ranging from ad supported video streaming, music subscription services, TV on-demand, to multi content subscription services such as YouTube Red. This means lower operational costs as a single implementation will support a broad variety of services and partners". Christophe Muller, YouTube’s Global Head of Music Partnerships, added, “YouTube is committed to helping the music industry by creating tools and resources and improving data flow in the digital age.”

The new tool is now being tested by YouTube, Kobalt, SACEM, GEMA, BMI and NMP.

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