6.1 Introduction

This clause defines the principles of the structure of the standard Sales/Usage Reports defined in the profiles defined in parts of the Digital Sales Reporting Message Suite.

At the time of publication, the profiles defined by DDEX in the DSR standard are as follows:

1. Part 3: Basic Audio Profile

2. Part 4: UGC Profile

3. Part 5: Audio-visual Profile

4. Part 6: Royalty Reporting Profile

5. Part 7: Broadcast Reporting Profile

6. Part 9: Financial Reporting to Record Companies Profile

7. Part 10: Masterlist Profile

8. Part 11: Basic Audio Profile for The Mechanical Licensing Collective

Within each profile, a table defines which Records to use for that profile and a cardinality that stipulates how many times a Record may be used. That table also indicates, through indentation, if a Record is providing data relevant to another Record. An example of this is shown in the table below (although it does not represent a complete Sales/Usage Report):

Table 2 – Example of the structure of Records in different profiles

This example table indicates that a profile has to contain one RE01 Record. All Records in the DSR standard are defined in Part 8 of the DSR standard along with their identifies. Each RE01 Record, in the example, shall be followed by one or more AS01 Records which provide data about resources that are part of the release described in the RE01 Record. There then has to be one or more SU01 Records which provides sales and/or usage data for the Release described in the RE01 Record. In addition, each of the AS01 Records may be followed by a number of MW01 Records providing data about the musical work(s) embodied in that resource (usually a sound recording). In the above example the AS01 and SU01 Records provide data about the release described in the RE01 Record and the MW01 Record provides additional data in relation to the AS01 Record.

The indentation shown in Table 2 is for illustration purposes only.