4.1 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this standard the following terms have the definitions specified in this clause. Although all the terms below are capitalised, they appear in the text of this standard in lower case, for ease of readability.

Anomaly

A pattern of consumer engagements (such as the play counts for a particular resource) that falls outside normal expectations, where no known cause can be identified. The deviations in the pattern may be large or small, may be in absolute numbers or as a percentage, may be temporal or regional and may be anomalous on their own or in conjunction with other indicators.

Digital Service Provider (DSP)

A party that provides a music service which makes available to consumers releases over a public telecom network having been duly authorised to do so by the owners of copyrights in sound recordings and/or music videos and/or exclusive licensors of copyrights in sound recordings and/or music videos (usually record companies).

Rights Controller

A party that controls rights in one or more creations in respect of some or all rights for specific territories, time periods, rights types, usage types and commercial model types (which may be anything up to and including all rights for the world, in perpetuity, for all types of usage and for all types of commercial models). Creations include musical works, sound recordings and other resources as well as releases.

For the purpose of this standard rights controllers are typically record companies, music publishers or collective rights management organisations acting on behalf of record companies, performers, music publishers or writers/composers.