Landis Links Nashville to Digital Platforms
April 16, 2007 Landis Entertainment & Media Partners Joins Forces with Secure Path to Integrate Nashville Music Industry into Evolving Hollywood and Silicon Valley Digital Standards
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) – Barry Landis, founder of Landis Entertainment & Media Partners, has joined forces with Secure Path of Los Angeles, CA, to support the Nashville music industry in the implementation of the evolving DDEX [Digital Data Exchange] and Media Metadata Exchange platforms. DDEX is the emerging platform for data exchange related to digital music transactions and was founded by key players such as Apple, AOL, ASCAP, EMI, Microsoft, SONY BMG, Warner Music and other industry giants.
“With the growth of online music sales, it has become essential for the industry to work together to exchange transactional data based on the common DDEX platform. This will guarantee the accuracy and efficiency of billing and remuneration for everyone in the creative and supply chains. As members of DDEX, it is important for us to have a partner like Barry Landis with his significant entertainment industry connections in Nashville,” said Josh C. Kline – Founder, CEO and President of Secure Path.
“We want to continue to offer Nashville labels, publishers, managers and artist/writers access to our ever-expanding list of Silicon Valley and Hollywood clients,” says Barry Landis, “Monetizing intellectual property rights, especially those that have been synched to video, is becoming an increasingly independent function that can supported by emerging systems like DDEX and Secure Path’s Media Metadata Exchange.”
About Landis Entertainment & Media Partners, LLC
Landis Entertainment and Media Partners (www.landisentertainment.com) was founded by Barry Landis, an entertainment industry deal maker, responsible for some of the world’s greatest Christian, Gospel and Country music. Landis has been ranked among the 25 most influential personalities in the Christian Industry. He has been involved in the careers of some of the biggest names in the genre, among them, P.O.D., Amy Grant and Randy Travis. Before forming his own company, he was President of Word Records, one of the three largest Christian music companies in the world. He has more than 50 #1 songs to his credit and his marketing plans have been responsible for the sale of more than 60 million records. He has received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from both Mt Vernon Nazarene University and Western Kentucky University, where he completed his Masters Degree. He is the Secretary of the Nashville chapter of NARAS (Grammys) where he serves on the Board of Governors. Last year he fused his passion with his work by launching The Briner Institute, a non-profit think tank dedicated to improving opportunities for students interested in culture shaping via entertainment and media.
About Secure Path
Secure Path (http://www.secpath.com) is a metadata services company providing content identification, metadata management and metadata exchange services to media & entertainment companies across multiple types of content. The Company is a Registration Agency for the International Standard Audiovisual Number or ISAN issuance and metadata management for AV works primarily movie and television programming. Secure Path is also an early participant in the development of the Digital Data Exchange or DDEX messaging standard being developed for the music industry.
In addition to issuing and managing globally unique content identifiers, Secure Path aggregates metadata about media records and is an exchange between content owners and content distributors.
The Company acts as an intermediary allowing multiple content distribution platforms to access and retrieve authenticated metadata from multiple sources.
Secure Path has created operational efficiencies for its clients by consolidating disparate legacy information and creating a worldwide standard to identify, manage and distribute media assets across various platforms and around the globe.