1 Introduction

This document defines the Audio-visual 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 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 in this Part 5 of the DSR standard is for reporting sales and/or usage data to licensors relating to the use of sound recordings which embody musical works and/or other resources from the exploitation on audio-visual services of electronic releases containing audio-visual recordings which may embody musical works, non-musical works and/or other resources and/or for which cues are being provided.

The reporting of music videos, whilst they are audio-visual recordings, is out of scope of this Part 5 of the DSR standard. Instead, Part 3 which documents the Basic Audio Profile should be used for the reporting of sales and/or usage of music videos.