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    • Electronic Release Notification Message Suite (ERN)
      • ERN 4 explained
        • ERN 4 structure
        • ERN 4 profiles
        • Differences between ERN 3 and ERN 4
      • ERN 3 explained
        • ERN 3 structure
        • ERN 3 profiles
          • Release profiles in ERN 3
          • Business profiles in ERN 3
      • ERN implementation guidance and best practice
      • ERN choreography using Secure File Transfer Protocol
      • ERN choreography using Web Services
        • Asymmetric web service architecture
        • Symmetric web service architecture
      • ERN samples
    • Media Enrichment and Description (MEAD)
      • MEAD explained
      • MEAD implementation guidance and best practice
      • MEAD choreography
    • Party Identification and Enrichment (PIE)
      • PIE explained
      • PIE implementation guidance and best practice
      • PIE choreography
    • Digital Sales Reporting Message Suite (DSR)
      • DSR explained
        • Adopting DSR
        • Architecture, Allowed Value Sets and Record Type Definitions
        • Multi-Record and Single-Record Block Variants
        • Multi-Context and Single-Context Sales Reports
        • DSR and CDM
        • DSR implementation
      • DSR profiles
        • Part 3: Basic Audio profile
        • Part 4: UGC profile
        • Part 5: Audio-visual profile
        • Part 6: Royalty Reporting profile
        • Part 7: Radio Broadcast profile
        • Part 9: Financial Reporting to Record Companies profile
        • Part 10: Masterlist profile
        • Part 11: Basic Audio Profile for The Mechanical Licensing Collective
      • DSR implementation guidance and best practice
      • DSR samples
    • Claim Detail Message Suite (CDM)
      • CDM explained
        • CDM structure
        • CDM profiles
        • Benefits of CDM
        • Challenges when implementing CDM
        • Why migrate to CDM?
      • CDM implementation guidance and best practice
      • CDM choreographies
      • CDM samples
    • Musical Work Data and Rights communication (MWDR)
      • Musical Work Right Share Notification Standard (MWN)
        • MWN explained
          • Purpose of MWN
          • Structure of MWN messages
          • MWN and the Common Works Registration (CWR)
        • MWN implementation guidance and best practice
        • MWN choreography
        • MWN samples
          • MWN Response Providing a Claim with Co-Ownership
          • MWN Response Providing a Claim
      • US Musical Work Licensing Choreography Standard (MWL)
        • MWL explained
          • Purpose of MWL
          • Structure of MWL messages
        • MWL implementation guidance and best practice
        • MWL choreography
        • MWL samples
      • US Letters of Direction Choreography Standard (LoD)
        • LoD explained
          • Purpose of LoD
          • Structure of LoD messages
        • LOD implementation guidance and best practice
        • LoD choreography
        • LoD samples
      • Bulk communication of Work And Recording Metadata (BWARM)
        • BWARM explained
        • BWARM implementation guidance and best practice
        • BWARM samples
    • Recording Data and Rights Standards (RDR)
      • Recording Data and Rights Notification (RDR-N)
        • RDR-N explained
          • RDR-N: XML Declaration
          • RDR-N: Message Header
          • RDR-N: Message Notification Period
          • RDR-N: ResourceList
          • RDR-N: SoundRecording (version 1.5)
          • RDR-N: SoundRecording (version 1.4)
          • RDR-N: SoundRecording DetailsByTerritory (version 1.5)
          • RDR-N: SoundRecording DetailsByTerritory (version 1.4)
          • RDR-N: SoundRecording DetailsByTerritory (version 1.3)
          • RDR-N Message Exchange
        • RDR-N implementation guidance and best practice
          • RDR Implementation Support
          • Upgrading from RDR-N Version 1.2 to Version 1.3
          • Upgrading from RDR-N Version 1.3 to Version 1.4
          • Upgrading from RDR-N Version 1.4 to Version 1.5
        • RDR-N samples
      • Recording Data and Rights Revenue Reporting (RDR-R)
        • RDR-R explained
        • RDR-R implementation guidance and best practice
        • RDR-R samples
      • Recording Data and Rights Choreography (RDR-C)
        • RDR-C implementation guidance and best practice
        • RDR-C data dictionaries
      • RDR implementation guidance and best practice
    • Recording Information Notification (RIN)
      • RIN explained
        • Background to RIN
        • Purpose of RIN
        • Structure of RIN
        • Who is RIN for?
      • RIN implementation guidance and best practice
      • RIN choreography
      • RIN samples
      • RIN FAQ
    • Transfer of Catalogues of Releases and Resources by Reassignment of Rights Controller Information
    • Best Practices for Catalogue Transfers
      • Best Practices for Catalogue Transfers explained
      • Best Practices for Catalogue Transfers choreography
    • Links between Resources and Musical Works (LRAW)
      • LRAW explained
      • LRAW implementation guidance and best practice
    • Best practices for all DDEX standards
      • Guidance for Flat-File Standards
        • Delimiters and Special Characters in Flat File Messages
        • Deprecated Cells in DSR and CDM
        • DSR and CDM messages exported from spreadsheet applications
        • Handling long titles and special characters in the DSR, CDM and RDR-R standards
        • MRBV vs SRBV
        • Multiple Identifiers for Multiple Parties
        • Profile names
      • Guidance on XML Issues
        • Comments
        • Direction of writing
        • Do not use CDATA to concatenate data
        • Importing RIN Files into RIN Files
        • Java library's date bug for 2020
        • Locations of XSDs
        • Namespace and file locations for the XSD for allowed value sets
        • Order of XML attributes
        • Preambles for XML-based DDEX messages
        • Referencing composites using ID and IDREF
        • Semantics of repeating XML tags
        • Special XML characters (and how to avoid &)
      • Miscellaneous
        • Origin and Trustworthiness of MEAD and PIE information
        • Handling “odd” characters
        • No Data for Mandatory Fields
        • Who owns which rights?
      • Guidance on Release/Resource/Work Metadata
        • Are ResourceGroups mandatory?
        • Can a Release contain the Same Sound Recording Multiple Times?
        • Classical Music – Genre vs Structure
        • Clip samples
        • Communicating audio and video clips such as previews and clips used for “shorts” (ERN 4.3 and later)
        • Communicating Classical Releases and Resources
        • Communicating Stems
        • Communicating Lyrics
        • Creation Dates
        • Differentiating versions using SubTitle in ERN and RDR-N
        • Display Titles in RDR
        • ERN Message without Resources
        • Genres
        • Handling “immersive audio”
        • Handling of Tracks that are “not cleared”
        • Hidden Sound Recordings
        • Images for Box Sets
        • Impact Date
        • Implementation: RDR-N ResourceList
        • Instrumental Music (ERN-3)
        • Keywords
        • Linking different Releases and Resources
        • MEAD and PIE samples: awards
        • MEAD and PIE samples: focus tracks
        • MEAD and PIE samples: recording locations
        • MEAD information for a taken down release
        • Metadata in different languages
        • Mixing classical with popular music
        • Mood in MEAD
        • Original Release Date, Release Date and other Dates
        • Parental advice labels
        • PLine and CLine
        • Primary and Secondary Resources
        • Product Types in Titles
        • Public Domain Works
        • ReferenceTitle of a SoundRecording
        • Release Types for TrackReleases
        • Resource Groups and Track Releases
        • Resource Types
        • Same Recording with Different Metadata
        • Samples for classical music in ERN-3 and ERN-4
        • Sequencing Resources
        • Territorial Variations in the SoundRecordingDetailsByTerritory Composite in RDR-N
        • Territorial Variations in Release Descriptions
        • Theme in MEAD
        • Titles and Subtitles in ERN-3
        • Titles and Subtitles in ERN-4
        • Translating and Transliterating Titles
        • Track Releases
        • What should a RIN File contain? 
        • Why Artist Information Is in Multiple Places
        • Subtitles in Multiple Languages
      • Guidance on Binaries
        • Adding and Removing Specific Encodings
        • Communicating Binaries
      • Guidance on Previews
        • Preview Resources
        • Resource-specific Previews
      • Guidance on allowed value sets (AVS, aka Code Lists)
        • Allowed-value sets and UserDefinedValues
        • Excluded Territories and Worldwide
        • Specialising DDEX-Defined Values
        • User-defined values
        • Versioning Allowed Value Sets
      • Guidance on contributors, artists and writers
        • Artist Name changes over time
        • Artist Roles and DisplayCredits
        • Band Members
        • Canonical Spellings for Names
        • Communicating awards in MEAD/PIE
        • Communicating Display Artist(s) and Display Artist Name(s)
        • Communicating of focus tracks in MEAD/PIE
        • Communicating Remixe(r)s
        • Contributors, Artists and Writers
        • ERN 4 PartyList
        • How long can artist names and titles be?
        • One artist with two roles
        • Ownership Claims for Single Resource Releases in ERN
        • Sequencing Recording Artists and Writers
        • Special Characters
        • Role Code Synonyms and Credits
        • Semantics of LineupComplete
        • Splitting Names & the "Key" Name
        • Territorial RightsController Information
        • Translating and Transliterating Names
        • “Various Artists” in ERN
        • Writer Roles
        • Rights Controller Information in ERNs to Music Licensing Companies
        • DisplayArtistNames for Releases and Resources
        • Displaying Artists for Remixes [ERN-4 only]
        • DisplayArtist? DisplayArtistName? Contributor? IndirectContributor? What is this all about?
      • Guidance on message exchange and choreographies
        • Access Credentials
        • Acknowledgements and Non-repudiation
        • Differentiating "Inserts" from "Updates"
        • ERN Messages as a “Statements of Truth”
        • File naming convention for Masterlist Reports
        • Generating and Processing ERN Batches
        • MEAD as a “Statement of Truth”
        • MEAD Information for a Taken-down Release
        • MEAD Messages as Secondary Resources in an ERN Feed
        • (No) Resources in initial delivery
        • Order of ERN Processing
        • Signalling Rights conflicts in ERN-C Status Updates
        • Update Indicator
      • Deals and Commercial Aspects
        • Adding tracks to a playlist before "street date"
        • Territories in Deals and Release Descriptions
        • Communicate Territory Information in Different Kinds of Releases
        • Active Deals at Time of Sending an ERN
        • Availability and Visibility
        • Album Streaming
        • ApplicableTerritoryCode vs Deal Territories
        • Avoiding "Dropouts" (or: how to signal Deal changes)
        • Cancelling a Deal Before "Street Date"
        • Communicating old currencies
        • Complex Deals can be Dangerous
        • Dates in Deals are being phased out (in favour of datetimes)
        • Deals without StartDate/StartDateTime (ERN-3 & ERN 4.1)
        • Dates: exclusive vs. inclusive
        • Displaying Deal Dates to Consumers
        • DoNotDisplayDates (ERN 4.3 and later)
        • Handling Conflicts
        • Is a NewReleaseMessage with no Deal valid?
        • LiveStream
        • MEAD and PIE samples: impact date
        • Multiple CommercialModelTypes or UseTypes in one Deal
        • Multiple consecutive Deals
        • Multiple Deals for one Release
        • No Takedown in Initial Deal
        • Podcasts in DSR
        • PriceInformation
        • Recommended use of CommercialModelType and UseType in ERN-4
        • Reporting Sales/Usages for Individual Tracks (e.g. for Streaming Deals
        • Registering Compilations in RDR-N (v 1.5)
        • Revenue and IndirectValue
        • RightsClaimPolicy (update in v3.8.1 and ERN-4)
        • Start Dates, End Dates, Start Date-Times and End Date-Times of Deals
        • Takedowns
        • Territorial Scope of a Deal
        • Territorial scope for visibility dates (ERN 4.3 and later)
        • Territorial Takedowns
        • Updating a claim in RDR
        • UseType for Fingerprinting Services
      • General Guidance on Messages
        • Communication of percentages
        • Currency conversion in DSR and CDM
        • Dealing with uncommon use cases
        • Field length and precision
        • GDPR and UGC
        • Invalid Messages
        • Priorities for metadata items
        • Scalability of UGC sales/usage reports
        • Time stamp for data accuracy
        • Version compatibility
        • What can I do if I have data requirements not addressed by DDEX
        • Which Release Profile for which ERN Version?
      • Guidance on Identifiers and ISO Codes Lists
        • Avoiding the use of proprietary Identifiers
        • Bar codes of various lengths
        • Can a release be identified by an ISRC?
        • Communication of identifiers in DDEX messages
        • Do DPIDs have hyphens?
        • How many DPIDs Do I need?
        • Identifiers for resources, releases and parties
        • Identifying Chapters
        • Identifying sound recordings and videos containing the same audio
        • Limitations of proprietary identifiers
        • Malformed identifiers
        • Multiple proprietary identification systems
        • Opus and composer catalogue numbers
        • Proprietary identifiers
        • Should I use an ISRC as the primary key for my database?
        • Territory codes (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-3, TIS)
        • Worldwide
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