SoundExchange Reporting
Demographics and DMCA Logging

Reporting also compliant with the ''Small Webcaster Settlement Act (SWSA)''

  • Information easily gathered via Open SQL relational database.
  • Allows for easy web based reporting.

From Wikipedia:

  • Prior to 1995, SRCOs in the United States did not have a performance right. This meant that, unlike their counterparts in most of Europe and other nations around the world, recording companies and artists were not entitled to receive payment for the public performance of their works. Users of music, the digital music service providers, freely performed these works at will, without paying the owners of those recordings or the featured artists who performed the songs.
  • The Digital Performance in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 changed that practice by granting a performance right in sound recordings. As a result, copyright law now requires that users of music pay the copyright owner of the sound recording for the public performance of that music via certain digital transmissions.
  • SoundExchange was created in 2000 as an unincorporated division of the RIAA. In September 2003, SoundExchange was spun off as an independent and non-profit organization.[1] Beginning on January 1, 2003, SoundExchange became the only collective designated by the Copyright Office to distribute statutory royalties to copyright owners and performers entitled under 17 U.S.C. 5 114(g)(2).[2]

    • The decision by the Library of Congress, as well as the signing of the SWSA, extends the requirement for logging and reporting of performance information. However, this can be a lot easier and faster than you think. With our relational SQL database included in Backbone Radio Pro, this information is automatically logged for easy reporting...everything from the recording information to data regarding the number and locations of listeners for each performance. As in the past, these requirements are subject to change, and you are prepared with all the information the government is likely to require.

    You also get complete logs of how many listeners are tuned into any item/clip/song; when they tuned in and out; how long they listened; to what; and from what geographic locale*.

Field Type
Backbone Radio Pro Field
Interim LOC
Requirement June 2002
Comment
Station .
service_name Service name Descriptive name of station
program_channel . Channel name (QT movie)
musical_genre_station_format . Descriptive format
transmission_category Transmission category Single letter identifying broadcaster
Clips
title Title Name of song
description . Info about song
artist Artist Artist performing this track
duration . Duration in seconds
isrc_code International Standard Recording Code
release_year . Date of release of clip
copyright_date Date of copyright
catalog_number . Album label catalog
clickable_url Used in annotation
Albums
title Album title Name of Album
artist . Overall album artist
publisher Music publisher
release_year . Year album was released
retail_album_title Recording label's title for album
recording_label Marketing label Label producing album
upc_code UPC code ID from album
copyright_owner_info . Detailed copyright infor
Log
event What occurred
date . Recorded at point item starts
station_name Station streaming program
service_name . Descriptive name of station
program_type Detailed ID of program
originating_timezone . Where program stream originates
sequence_number Sequence in program playlist
Connect Log
event User connect or disconnect
date . Unique record for connect and disconnect
user_ip IP Address of listener (user)
session_id . Provided by QuickTime
station_name Station streaming program
user_timezone . Timezone of listener
unique_id Identify this user
connect_country . Country where listener is located
Calculations
num_performances Number of performances Calculated from log and connect log
program_time Total streamed time Calculated streamed time to listeners

*based on IP address range