5.2 Data flow

The choreography shown in Figure 1 depicts the communication between the parties involved in the exchange of the two standard messages, and the roles they play in the context of resolving a rights claim conflict.

For the choreography of this part of the standard in context of Part 2 of the RDR standard (RDR-N), see Clause 7.

In Figure 1 the music licensing company initiates the communication about a rights claim conflict to the conflicting parties, or third party facilitators working on the behalf of one or more of the conflicting parties (Arrow 1 in Figure 1). Receipt of the RightsClaimConflictNotification should trigger a reassessment by each of the conflicting parties of their original claim with a view to sending a RightsClaimConflictResponse to the relevant music licensing company (arrow 2 in Figure 1).

The resolution of the rights claim conflict itself is out of scope for this Part of the RDR standard and may take several iterations of data exchanges depending on the individual responses of the various conflicting parties. Due to the fact that the internal dispute processes of the parties may be handled differently, because of, for example, internal policies, bilateral agreements or relevant law, the response time will vary and no synchronisation with regards to iterations is defined herein (see Clause 6.3).

The RightsClaimConflictResponse messages sent by the conflicting parties to the music licensing company can include data expressing a rights claim update, a revocation of a previously erroneous rights claim, the maintaining of a previously declared rights claim to clearly restate those rights, and finally data that informs the music licensing company that the conflicting party has not yet been able to assess the conflict notification and that response is pending.

An update or a revocation of a rights claim should be used by the receiving music licensing company to revaluate or recalculate the claims in conflict.