Working Groups

Electronic Release Notification Working Group (ERN)

1. Maintain ERN-4 and its Release Profiles;
2. Maintain ERN Choreographies;
3. Finalise and maintain MEAD;
4. Assist interested parties with implementation activities;
5. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for all versions of ERN-3, ERN-4 and MEAD; and
6. Test the ERN/MEAD part of the XSD validator currently run by SME.

Digital Sales Report Working Group (DSR)

1. Maintain and further develop the DSR standard for reporting of sales/usages to owners and licensors of Musical Works;
2. Finalise a masterlist profile, the Single-Record Block Variants for the existing profiles and the profile for reporting of sales/usages to owners and licensors of Sound Recordings;
3. Finalise the Claim Detail Message;
4. Assist interested parties with implementation activities;
5. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for the DSR and CDM standard; and
6. Develop and maintain conformance tools.

Licensing Working Group (MWN/L)

1. Maintain the Musical Work Right Share Notification Choreography Standard;
2. Develop a message suite and choreography standard for licensing Musical Works;
3. Develop a message suite and choreography standard for Letters of Direction;
4. Assist interested parties with implementation activities;
5. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for MWN, LoD and MWL message suites; and
6. Develop and maintain conformance tools.

Music Licensing Companies Working Group (MLC)

1. Develop and maintain the DDEX MLC message suite to enable and promote its adoption by DDEX members and others;
2. Plan for MLC implementation with a focus on adoption by record companies;
3. Assist interested parties with implementation activities;
4. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for the MLC message suite; and
5. Develop and maintain conformance tools.

Linking Working Group (Linking)

1. Maintain the standard message format that enables all parties involved in creating links between ISWCs and ISRCs (or equivalents as appropriate) to communicate these with their business partners in a standard way; and
2. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for the Linking message standard.

Studio Working Group (RIN)

1. Maintain and develop the Recording Information Notification standard;
2. Work with developers of audio recording technologies towards further implementation of the RIN standard;
3. Demonstrate the value of RIN to content creators and stakeholders in the production process; illustrate to rights owners and DSPs the value for consumers;
   (a) Develop a use case demonstrator in the form of an audio-visual presentation which demonstrates the importance of the deployment of the RIN standard and how this can benefit contributors to the creation of works and sound recordings in respect of such issues as credits and receipt of royalties due; and
   (b) Develop a use case example to demonstrate the flow of data from studio to label to commercial channels while illustrating how the RIN standard can benefit contributors with credits and royalties;
4. Create samples and documents for the Knowledge Base for the RIN standard; and
5. Create awareness of the RIN standard and its development through presentations and engagement in industry events.

Conformance Working Group

1. Define and document a conformance regime for all DDEX standards based on the work previously carried out in respect of the ERN standard;
2. Work with other technical Working Groups to adapt this generic regime to the various standards;
3. Co-ordinate and oversee the development and maintenance of tools to support the conformance regime defined in 1 and 2; and
4. Create material for the Knowledge Base which provides users of the DDEX standards with sufficient information to be conformant to the standard(s) they are using and what to do to correct the situation if they are not conformant (this may involve working with other technical Working Groups).