The Digital Rights Agency represents a worldwide group of high profile independent record labels in collective digital distribution deals. By leveraging the significant collective bargaining power of our clients, we enable our clients to access digital outlets around the world on industry-leading terms with a one-time delivery of catalog to DRA.
By focusing on the world's top labels and taking on fewer clients, we are able to provide a high level of marketing support to each client. DRA's long standing relationships with key editors at the major services and our track record of delivering successful titles consistently results in high visibility for our clients' releases on the major music services.

We drive significant cost-savings in labels' accounting process by providing a single monthly digital royalty statement covering deliveries across all digital outlets and providing robust password-protected online sales reporting functionality.
The Digital Rights Agency team includes among the most experienced digital rights attorneys, software developers and marketing experts in the digital music business and has a long history working with independent labels.
DRA is compensated through a percentage-based fee on sales revenue which means that we are highly motivated to sell your catalog. There are no up-front encoding or delivery costs. 

Benefits:
Great Deals: We negotiate great deals with digital music companies by using the collective bargaining power of our rapidly expanding group of label clients.

Powerful Technology: We have invested heavily in the development of proprietary database and accounting software that provides labels with a single consolidated royalty statement covering sales through many different digital music outlets. Consolidated reporting saves you money by vastly reducing your workload in accounting to artists, producers and publishers for digital sales.

Content Delivery: You provide us with a single copy of each record in your catalog and your metadata. We encode your music in our system and provide it to each company we license, saving you the cost of delivering content to each company you license.

Expert Strategy: We are experts in the complex business and legal dynamics of digital music licensing and also understand the nuances of the independent music business. As a result, we are uniquely able to create strategies that will help your label succeed as the music business increasingly transitions to digital downloads.

Low Fees: Our fees are among the lowest of any organization doing collective licensing and you only pay us when you make money.

Managing Director
Tuhin Roy is a leading digital media industry attorney who has represented both independent record labels and digital music services in licensing transactions.

Prior to founding the Digital Rights Agency, Mr. Roy founded the Digital Media Strategy Group (www.digitalmediastrategy.com), a successful law and consulting firm focused on licensing content for digital media services and the creation of relationships involving the distribution of these services. 

Prior to founding DMSG, Mr. Roy served as General Counsel of Echo Networks--a digital music company acquired in early 2003 by a consortium of major brick and mortar music retailers including the Virgin Entertainment Group, Tower Records, Wherehouse , Best Buy, Transworld Entertainment and Hastings Entertainment-- where he was responsible for licensing the catalogs of major and independent record labels and publishers.

Prior to joining Echo Networks, Mr. Roy practiced corporate and intellectual property law at Perkins Coie LLP where he represented technology companies in licensing and corporate finance matters.

Prior to his practice at Perkins Coie LLP, Mr. Roy founded and served as managing partner of One Two Productions, a boutique music publishing and production company that produced top-charted and RIAA- certified records for several major and independent labels. 

Mr. Roy has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Digital Media Association, a Washington DC-based association whose members include AOL/Time Warner, MTV, and Real Networks and has served as an expert witness before the United States Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.

Database and Accounting Systems Architect
Ming Wu has an extensive background in technology including product design, software development, implementation, and systems management. He has architected and managed enterprise level systems for major online financial institutions and designed and developed numerous multi-tier systems. Mr. Wu holds his degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently serves as a Senior Systems Engineer for E*Trade Financial in Menlo Park, CA.