1 Introduction

This document defines the Claims Amounts profile and the Claims profile of the Claim Detail Message Suite Standard and was developed by the 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. The terms and conditions of the Implementation Licence can be found here and access to an application form can be found on here.

The Claim Detail Message Suite (CDM) defines messages that provide mechanisms for musical work licensors (typically music rights societies or music publishers) to respond to a DSR Message received from licensees (typically digital service providers or DSPs). These standard messages (CDM Statements) set out to the licensee, data about each claim in each right share the licensor is making in respect of the musical works identified in the DSR Message and, depending on which CDM Statement profile is used, all the calculation details behind the individual and aggregate royalty claims being made by each licensor in such detail that the licensee that originally sent the DSR Message can be confident in accepting the associated invoice for payment. The CDM standard also provides messages (CDM Notifications) that can be sent by licensees to musical work licensors where the licensee has identified what it considers to be discrepancies in the CDM Statements received from the musical work licensor. These discrepancies can range from arithmetic issues to right share overclaims.

The CDM Statements in this Part 3 of the CDM standard define two profiles to communicate claims and invoice details for musical works either in response to receipt of a DSR Message from a licensee or where the licensee and the licensor agree to exchange data to communicate claims details either before or after any sales and/or usage has been undertaken by the licensee on its service.