1 Introduction

This document defines the Financial Reporting to Record Companies Profile of the Digital Sales Reporting Message Suite and was developed by member organisations of the Digital Data Exchange, LLC (DDEX). Any organisation wishing to implement this (or any other DDEX standard) is required to apply for an Implementation Licence. Information about the Implementation Licence, its terms and conditions can be found here and access to an application form can be found on here.

The Sales/Usage Reports defined in the Digital Sales Reporting Message Suite (DSR) provide mechanisms for licensees (typically digital service providers or DSPs) to report to licensors (typically music rights societies, music publishers, record companies and/or distributors) data regarding the level of sales and/or usage generated from the exploitation of electronic releases containing sound recordings and/or music videos which embody musical works and/or other resources.

The Sales/Usage Report defined this Part 9 of the DSR standard is for reporting all sales and/or usage data to record companies or distributors relating to the use of sound recordings and/or music videos occurring on audio-only services such as those using a download or streaming business model.