Method of enabling and administering commercial transactions using a computerized administration system

A method of enabling and administering commercial transactions using a computerised administration system, the method comprising the steps of:

• a plurality of holders of Intellectual Property rights in a plurality of recordings of sounds and/or images and/or text offering the recordings for sale on sites hosted on a plurality of host computer apparatus and publicly accessible from a telecommunications network;
• a purchaser using client computer apparatus to order electronically via the telecommunications network recordings from the plurality of different sites of the holders of Intellectual Property rights;
• each host computer apparatus relaying details regarding the orders of the purchaser to a payment administration system common to all the publicly accessible sites and contained in the computerised administration system;
• the purchaser making a single electronic payment via the telecommunications network to the payment administration system in respect of orders made placed by the purchaser at a plurality of different publicly accessible sites;
• storing in a first computer database of the computerised administration system records of the plurality of recordings of sounds and/or images and/or text offered for sale by the holders of the Intellectual Property rights holders;
• storing in a second computer database of the computerised administration system records of agreements concluded between the holders of the Intellectual Property rights and a plurality of suppliers licensed under the Intellectual Property rights;
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• the computerised administration system using the first and second databases thereof to determine from the orders placed by the purchaser which suppliers are authorised to supply the requested recordings and to relay electronically via the telecommunications network the orders to the relevant suppliers along with payment for the orders.