1 Introduction

This document defines the architecture of the Claim Detail Message Suite 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. Information about the Implementation Licence, its terms and conditions can be found here and an application form can be found 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 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.

This part of the CDM standard (along with Part 2: Record type definitions) defines the principles of the structure of all the standard CDM Statements and CDM Notifications defined in other parts of the CDM standard (that is Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5). The CDM Statements and CDM Notifications contained in these various parts are known as profiles. Collectively these are referred to as CDM messages in the CDM standard unless the context requires otherwise.