EDI format specifications Version 2.0, Revision 4 - APRA

Specifications: Common Royalty Distribution: EDI format specifications Version 2.0, Revision 4
4. Royalty Grand Total Transaction (RGT). This is an optional single-record
transaction (which may later be classified mandatory) that reports accumulations
of the royalty amounts contained within the file. This record, if present, must be
within its own GRH/GRT pair and should be the last transaction group in the file,
immediately before the TRL Trailer record.
5. CRD Acknowledgement Transaction (ACK). This transaction is an optional
acknowledgement that may be sent by the recipient (back) to the submitter, to
fulfil either or both of the following purposes:
• Indicate the success or failure of validation of the reported transactions and
information records;
• Notify the submitter of the International Standard Work Code (ISWC)
numbers assigned to the works by the recipient. This will allow the
submitter to record the ISWC identifiers and use them to identify works in
subsequent CRD reports to the recipient.
2.2 - File Level Validations
The following validations are relevant to the CRD file.
1. The File (HDR, TLR) and Group (GRH, GRT) header and trailer records must
conform to the CIS EDI standards (see SR06-2010-R5 “CIS Guidelines of
Electronic Data Interchange, Version 2.0”.)
2. A CRD file containing acknowledgement records must not contain any other
types of transactions.
3. Metadata may not follow exploitation. That is, the metadata transactions
(“Society Distribution Notification Transaction” and “Musical Work Notification
Transaction”) must precede exploitation (“Musical Work Exploitation Notification
Transaction”) transactions.
2.3 - A note about society identifiers
The CRD format provides ample space in which to report society identifiers allocated to
musical works, audio-visual works, recordings, etc.
All society identifier columns in CRD are alpha-numeric and as such, values should be
supplied left-aligned in the columns, with trailing spaces. This is very important to those
receiving societies that record other societies’ identifiers for reference purposes.
Your identifiers should appear in CRD exactly as they did in the “E”, “F” and “M” file formats.
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