Setting up Your Society as a Delivery Partner To Deliver CWR ✪

Before you can start sending CWR deliveries to societies on Curve, there are a few things to consider (more info on that here). The main piece is that you will need to create a Delivery Partner for each society that you wish to send deliveries to. Via this Delivery Partner, you can store delivery presets such as the delivery format, and where the delivery should be sent to. It also means you can now store a Delivery Status for this Partner against each Work, so you know exactly whether a Work has previously been delivered to this Partner, and whether it has been registered successfully.

Once a Work has been delivered to a Delivery Partner, the Work is given a Delivered status for this Partner. Once an Acknowledgement file is then returned by this partner, it will then update the status to say whether the registration has been Accepted or Rejected. It is therefore important that you have one Delivery Partner for each Society that you send deliveries to, so you can keep perfect track of the status of each Work with each society.

As soon as you create Delivery Partners, you will notice that Delivery Statuses become available for each of these Delivery Partners against the Works.

Create Your Delivery Partners

To get started, go to Deliveries > Delivery Settings > Delivery Partners

Partner-specific information

There are a few society specific fields you need to fill out when setting up the Delivery Partner for your collection society or sub-publisher.

The Receiving Party is the party you're sending your CWR to. This Receiving Party is important for

• Making sure the CWR is picking up custom Composer/Publisher society affiliations (if applicable).
• Making sure the CWR is picking up the correct agreement numbers (if applicable).
• Making sure that Acknowledgement (ACK) files returned by the society are linked automatically against this Partner.

For deliveries to a sub-publisher you can use the 'Other' value in the dropdown menu.

The Specific IPI No field should only be filled out if you want to send your CWR deliveries for this specific partner with a different IPI from your normal IPI as set up in your Delivery Settings > Overview area. Entering an IPI number here will overwrite your normal IPI number.

You should enter the Territory you're sending your deliveries to this specific partner for. Here you specify all the Territories in which you want the society or sub-publisher to represent your copyright. You can use Territory Groups to select multiple Territories for your delivery. If you have Territory specific IP Chains set on your Work, all matching chains on that Work will be included in the CWR.

The Output Format dictates which format your Delivery will be. If this is set to CWR, you will also need to specify the CWR version. Your collection society will be able to inform you which version of CWR they want to receive.

Delivery Type

By setting up an email integration, as per the example below, you will gain the ability to send your delivery over email straight from the Curve platform. The receiving party will receive an email from Curve from which they can download your delivery file.

FTP is a way to transfer files between computers. By setting up your society as an FTP delivery partner, you can send your catalogue delivery straight to your society's database without any human interference. Your society will be able to provide you with all the details, such as whether it's an FTP vs SFTP delivery type, your Host Address, Port Number, your Username, your Password and your Root Directory.

Furthermore, you could also deliver CWR files to receiving parties (ie Music Reports being one of them) via SFTP with Public/Private Key Access, as opposed to Username and Password.

The steps to adjust this are:

1. In the corresponding Delivery Partner you will need to select SFTP as the Delivery Type.
2. Then for the Authentication Type   Field, you will have 2 options in the dropdown : ‘Password’ and 'Key File'.
3. When selecting “Key File” , you will have the option to “upload” a directive that will allow you to upload the public/private key file.
4. The file is then uploaded to S3 and an S3 key will be saved against your FTP settings.

Important to remember that we currently do not support PPK files and require a PEM file (PPK files can be converted to PEM files). However, prior to converting a PPK file to PEM, please note that the PPK must currently be generated without a passphrase, as this is not supported

Use the Export Only setting if you don't want to send your Deliveries directly from Curve, but want to manually export them instead.

IP Chain amendments on a Delivery Partner level

We have two tools to customise what the IP Chain on the delivery for a specific Partner looks like.

Delivery Configuration gives you the option to switch on a 50/50 music and lyrics split on the IP Chain, which is required by certain societies like GEMA.

Insert Into IP Chain gives you the option to add an entity to the top of the IP Chain for any Deliveries you make to this specific Delivery Partner. For example, if you have a specific ASCAP entity that you want to add as a sub-publisher to the top of your regular IP Chain for any deliveries you send to ASCAP, you can add that entity on the ASCAP delivery partner. This would add said publisher to the top of the chain and hand it over the controlled collected shares. If the publisher you are looking to insert is the same publisher that is already at the top of the chain, then no change will be made to the IP Chain.

Delivery Partners for MusicMark and ICE

If you use ICE or Musicmark to deliver to certain societies, you should set up a Delivery Partner for each of the societies, as well as for Musicmark and ICE. When you select Musicmark or ICE as the Receiving Party, you will be able to link the societies you deliver to via these parties as a Sub Partner on the Delivery Partner. More information on this specific scenario can be found here.

Deliver Your Catalogue

Once your Delivery Partner is complete, you can select this Delivery Partner in your Delivery. A Deliver button will appear, allowing you to send your catalogue delivery straight from the Curve platform.

As soon as you have delivered a Work to a society, you will notice that the Delivery Status of the Work for that Delivery Partner has updated to Delivered (D).

These statuses will then subsequently update as societies return to you their Acknowledgement files with feedback on whether the Work has been successfully registered or not.