Digital Data Exchange LLC C/O Sony Music

“The ddex board of directors approves an annual budget that includes an estimate of rightscom's fees for each year. On a four-month cycle, rightscom submits a work plan to the board which matches the available financial resources against a board prioritized list of activities.”

“Ddex has the following types of members: charter member, full member, full individual member and associate member.”

“Each charter member is entitled (a) to elect or appoint, at its sole discretion, a named individual as director to the board, such director to (i) serve at the discretion of the respective charter member, (ii) cast one (1) vote on behalf of the charter member in its capacity as a member of the board, (iii) receive notice of all board meetings and, have access to (1) all documentation relating to the issues being discussed by and (2) all communications relating to, each board meeting; and (iv) in the event of a subject matter to be discussed at a particular board meeting, as identified in the agenda therefore, be entitled to choose one (1) additional individual with specific subject matter expertise, also employed by the charter member, to attend such meeting of the board but without any voting rights associated therewith; (b) pay the applicable membership dues for charter members; (c) be entitled to one (1) vote in each working group; (d) have access to (1) all documentation relating to the issues being discussed at and (2) all communications relating to, each working group; (e) be eligible to provide a representative to act as chair of each working group, if so appointed by the board; (f) be eligible to provide comments on a committee draft standard during an ip notice period (see annex b (intellectual property policy), section b.7 (declaration and operation of ip notice period)); (g) be eligible to send representatives to each plenary meeting; (h) have access to (1) all documentation relating to the issues to be discussed at and (2) all communications relating to each, plenary meeting; (i) be eligible to send representatives to each annual meeting; (j) have access to (1) all documentation relating to the issues to be discussed at and (2) all communications relating to each annual meeting; and (k) be granted free of charge an implementation license as anticipated in section 5.3.3 (authority of board) and at the same time be allocated a ddex party identifier, if at the time of becoming a charter member such charter member has not already been granted an implementation license or allocated a ddex party identifier.”

“The draft form 990 is provided to rightscom, ltd., the organization that is retained by ddex to perform administrative and technical development support services, for review and is then presented to the ddex board of directors for authorization before it is filed with the internal revenue service.”

“The ddex board of directors consists equally of organizations that represent three different sectors of the digital music supply chain, namely, owners/administrators of musical works, owners/administrators of sound recordings and dsps/technology service providers. Critical decisions relating to licensing and fee setting, compliance rules, revision of membership dues, resource allocation, financial management and budget approval and appointment of a registration authority require a "super-majority" vote of the board of directors. A super-majority vote is "an affirmative vote of more than eighty percent (80%) of the total number of persons entitled to vote".”

“No documents are available to the public.”