JAXSTA
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Jaxsta Limited (ASX: JXT) announced that it has entered into a commercial data access agreement (CDAA) with Music and Entertainment Rights Licensing Independent Network B.V. (Merlin), granting it a partnership deal with Merlin and its participating members.
Merlin is the global digital rights agency for the world’s independent label sector with more than 800 members, representing tens of thousands of record labels from 63 countries.
Jacqui Louez Schoorl, Jaxsta’s Chief Executive Officer said, “We are very excited to announce this important partnership with Merlin. The independent music industry has supported our journey from the beginning, and we have been proud to support independent music through a myriad of initiatives including our memberships with A2IM, AIM and AIR. To be able to represent the wider community via a partnership with Merlin is a dream come true.”
Charles Caldas, CEO of Merlin said, “Delivering accurate and transparent data reporting is of crucial importance both to Merlin and our growing global membership of independent labels and distributors. This partnership with Jaxsta will help ensure our members’ repertoire is properly accredited, wherever in the world it is accessed and enjoyed.”
The direct data feed provided by Jaxsta’s data partners (record labels, publishers, industry associations) provides Jaxsta with official authoritative data sources as opposed to crowd-sourced information. This improves the accuracy of the data used in the Jaxsta Platform.
In addition to the Merlin CDAA, Jaxsta has entered into numerous partner agreements in the past two years that provide the company access to the credits of more than 80% of global music releases. These data partners include Adarga Entertainment Group, Alligator Records, ATO Records, Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), Big Deal Music Group, Bright Antenna Records, CD Baby, Epitaph Records, Fat Beats Records, Foundation Media, Hillsong, Mad Decent, Merge Records, Mushroom Music Publishing, Narnack Records, The Official Charts Company (OCC), Polyvinyl Records, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), The Recording Academy, Sentric Music, Sony Music Entertainment and The Orchard, Soulspazm Digital, Unified Music Group, Universal Music Group, Virtual Label and Warner Music Group. This agreement also extends to their respective distributed labels and subsidiaries. More partners will be announced in the coming months.
Founded in 2015 by Jacqui Louez Schoorl and Louis Schoorl, Jaxsta announced the launch of the Jaxsta.com beta on June 13, 2019, positioning it as the world’s largest source of official credit information. At launch, Jaxsta’s comprehensive database of official music credit information contains more than 100 million credits across 25 million webpages, reflecting the music credits of 19 million recordings. This includes 5 million individual production credits; 4 million profiles (individuals, groups, companies and organizations); 2.5 million album/single/soundtrack releases; 2.5 million individual credited recording engineers; and 1.9 million credited individual songwriters. A continuously growing database, Jaxsta expects to increase the total number of credits within the platform by 30% before the conclusion of its open beta.
About Jaxsta
Jaxsta is a music company using technology to solve a first-hand need for data. Digital music has seen an end to the printed “jacket” that once came with a physical CD or LP – where music enthusiasts and professionals would look to discover the story behind the music. The go-to authoritative source of music information, Jaxsta is collecting catalogue data from major and independent record labels, publishers, royalty agencies and industry associations across the globe. The data is de-duplicated, cross-referenced, deep-linked and then made available online within a multi-functional, ever-evolving platform. Jaxsta’s head office is based in Sydney, with representatives in New York, London and Los Angeles.
About Merlin
Merlin is the digital rights agency for the world’s independent label sector. The organisation’s members embody more than 20,000 independent record labels and distributors from 63 countries.
Merlin acts to ensure these companies have effective access to new and emerging revenue streams and that their rights are appropriately valued and protected.
Since commencing operations in May 2008, Merlin has licensed over 25 key digital services including Facebook, YouTube Music, Spotify, Deezer, Pandora, Alibaba, NetEase and Tencent, and has reached a number of high value copyright infringement settlements on behalf of its members.
Merlin has won “Independent Champion” at the A2IM Libera Awards three times – in ‘15, ‘16 and ‘18. The company’s CEO, Charles Caldas, has been recognised by Billboard in its 2019 list of the 100 most influential people in the music business, for the second year running, while Merlin has been named as an advocate for the publication’s 2018 “Indie Power Players.”
Merlin has offices in London, New York and Tokyo, with a head office in Amsterdam.
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