5.6.3 SU02.03 — Sales and/or usage Record for streaming services and webcasts

This is the Record used to communicate data about sales and/or usage relating to releases or resources made available on a streaming or other similar service and is contained in a DSR message created in accordance with the Basic Audio Profile, the Audio-visual Profile and the Basic Audio Profile for The Mechanical Licensing Collective.

Cell Name

Definition

Data type

M/O/C

Example

1

RecordType

The type of the Record which shall always contain the value SU02.03.

Fixed string

M

SU02.03

2

BlockId

The identifier of the Block that this Record belongs to, which shall be specific to this DSR message. All Records in a single Block shall have the same BlockId.

String

M

7

3

SummaryRecordId

The identifier, which shall be specific to the DSR message, of the summary Record for which this sales and/or usage Record provides details.

This identifier shall be used in the sales and/or usage data Records to indicate to which summary Record they provide details.

String

M

34

4

SalesTransaction Id

The proprietary identifier of the sales and/or usage Record, which is allocated by the licensee, and which enables any communication about a DSR message to reference directly back to an individual sales and/or usage Record 

The SalesTransactionId taken together with the MessageId in the HEAD Record shall be globally and perpetually unique. The SalesTransactionId may change if the DSR message has to be re-generated.

String

M

34456

5

Transacted ReleaseReference

The identifier, specific to the Block, of the Record describing the release (either a head release or a sub-release) for which the sales and/or usage data is being reported. 

A value is mandatory in either the TransactedRelease Reference Cell or the TransactedResource Reference Cell.

String

C

2345

6

Transacted ResourceReference

The ResourceReference, specific to the Block, of the Record describing the resource for which the sales and/or usage data is being reported.

A value is mandatory in either the TransactedResource Reference Cell or the TransactedRelease Reference Cell is mandatory.

String

C

2345

 

7 (up-dated)

IsRoyaltyBearing

A flag indicating whether the licensee is contractually obliged to pay royalties to the licensor for the sales and/or usage being reported in the Record.

Boolean

M

true

8

NumberOfStreams

The number of streams of the releases or resources that are the subject of the Record to end users by the licensee during the period represented by the DSR message.

Decimal

M

1000

9

PriceEndUser PaidExcSalesTax

A price paid by end users, excluding sales tax for each individual sale and/or usage in the CurrencyOfTransaction. This may be a nominal price.

A value in the PriceEndUserPaid ExcSalesTaxCell is mandatory if the value for the CommercialModel Cell is PayAsYouGoModel.

Decimal

C

100.34

10

Promotional Activity

The description of a type of promotional activity used to exploit the release.

The detailed definitions of the values used in the PromotionalActivity Cell are determine by the bilateral agreement between the licensee and the licensor. 

A value for PromotionalActivity Cell is mandatory if a specific promotional activity has been taking place during the period of the sales and/or usage data contained in a DSR message.

String

O

Valentines Day Special

11

UseType

A description of the way in which an end user a service.

The value in the UseType Cell also enables the communication of which type of device an end user has used to access the service. This is achieved by using the UseType value UseAsDevice

A value in the UseType Cell is mandatory if there is no UseType in the relevant summary Record. Similarly, a value in the UseType Cell shall not be provided if there is a value in the UseType Cell of the relevant summary Record.

AVS:

UseType_DSR

C

PermanentDowload

12 (new)

PlaybackDuration

The duration that all end users viewed or listened to the releases or resources during the reporting period. The total duration reported here relates to the duration of all playbacks of all releases or resources that embody musical works which to the knowledge of the licensee at the time of sending the DSR message are controlled by the rights controller or the licensor.

The value in this Cell uses the ISO 8601:2004 PT[[hhH]mmM]ssS format, where lower case characters indicate variables and upper case characters are part of the string. 

For example, one hour, two minutes and three seconds would be PT1H2M3S). The seconds section ss may include fractions. For example, one minute and 30.5 seconds would be PT1M30.5S.

Duration

O

PT1H3M30.25S