DDEX

Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) is an international standards-setting organization that was formed in 2006[1] to develop standards that enable companies to communicate information along the digital supply chain more efficiently[2] by:

  • Developing standard message and file formats (XML or flat-file)
  • Developing choreographies for specific business transactions
  • Developing communication protocols (SFTP or based on web services)
  • Working with industry bodies to create a more efficient supply chain.

DDEX currently focuses on the music industry and has 3 types of memberships (charter, full and associate members) with about 100 members.[3]

CHARTER MEMBERS
Google Amazon (company) Apple Inc. Broadcast Music, Inc.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers GEMA (German organization) Kobalt Music Group Pandora Media, Inc.
Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) PRS for Music Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques (SCPP) Sacem
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada Sony Music Entertainment SoundExchange Spotify
Tencent Music Universal Music Group Warner Music Group Downtown Music

Business transactions addressed
Business Transactions supported by DDEX

DDEX's standards[4] address a series of business transactions:

  • Release deliveries
  • Sales/usage reporting
  • Communication with and amongst Music Licensing Companies
  • Licensing of musical works
  • Collection of information on sound recordings and musical works in the recording studio

Using DDEX standards

All DDEX standards are available from the DDEX Knowledge Base, with complete documentation.[5] DDEX has also created a series of free introductory videos.[6]

Implementers that want to use any of the DDEX standards are required to take out a software licence.[7] This licence is a royalty-free click wrap licence that grants implementers access to the intellectual property embedded in the DDEX standards.

gollark: Eventually support seems to come from... bored programmers adding it, some big company pushing it, or it just eventually being implemented in a few things with fallbacks.
gollark: Probably just that while people like the idea of better-compressed images, it's not very useful for a browser or whatever to implement it if no sites use it, and not very useful for a site to implement it if no browsers support it.
gollark: I'm not really sure.
gollark: No, at least in this field they're frequently made by large well-funded teams, but it just takes ages for support to be implemented anywhere.
gollark: I mean, apart from support, AVIF is not very good in terms of being supported by anything at all, but it's technologically superior.

References
  1. About DDEX
  2. Independent study reveals 66% reduction in key operations expense over 5 years for digital music providers adopting DDEX data exchange standards
  3. List of DDEX Members
  4. List of DDEX standards
  5. DDEX Knowledge Base
  6. DDEX YouTube channel
  7. DDEX Implementation Licence
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