A Significant Step Forward in the Online Music Market: CISAC and BIEM Welcome DDEX Implementing MI3P

A Significant Step Forward in the Online Music Market: CISAC and BIEM Welcome DDEX Implementing MI3P

PARIS, May 5/PRNewswire/ -- CISAC and BIEM welcome the launch of Digital Data Exchange
(DDEX) to take forward and implement the standards developed within the
framework of MI3P, the Music Industry Integrated Identification Project.

Led and funded since 2001 by the trade organisations
representing rights societies (CISAC and BIEM) and record labels (IFPI and
RIAA), MI3P centred on e-commerce and the delivery of music online for the
benefit of creators, artists and music fans. The MI3P developed a global
infrastructure for the music industry to facilitate legitimate online music
services through a system of standardised and efficient data exchange between
all the players (music rights societies, record labels and digital service
providers). The MI3P standards include identifiers for musical works and
sound recordings and messages for sales reporting which support every stage
of music e-commerce.

Having developed the MI3P standards, the trade organisations
then looked for the most effective way to achieve cross industry adoption and
implementation. MI3P is now hosted by a newly formed not-for-profit
organization called Digital Data Exchange (DDEX, pronounced "dee- dex") whose
charter members consist of music rights societies, record labels and digital
service providers. CISAC and BIEM, along with IFPI and RIAA, have licensed
their intellectual property rights in MI3P to DDEX to enable DDEX to
implement and deliver the business objectives of their standards.

"We are delighted that the MI3P Project, to which we have been
heavily committed over several years, both financially and in terms of
providing expertise, is now coming to fruition under the auspices of DDEX,"
said Ronald Mooij, Secretary General of BIEM.

"The broad membership of DDEX gives us confidence that this
venture will succeed not only for the benefit of the entire music industry
but also for the advancement of e-commerce," added Eric Baptiste, Director
General of CISAC.

CISAC and BIEM look forward to continuing their close
involvement in the work of DDEX. A number of music rights societies have
already begun testing and successfully implementing some of the MI3P
standards, i.e. the identifier for the licence of musical works (MWLI -
Musical Work License Identifier) and the DSP sales report messaging (DSR -
DSP Sales Report).

For more information:

www.cisac.org

www.biem.org

www.digitaldataexchange.com

Source: CISAC

Contact: Marianne Rollet, CISAC Communications, Tel: +33-(0)1-55-62-08-57 / marianne.rollet@cisac.org

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