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Music Reports News Release:
Music Reports Announces Music Publishing Licensing and Reporting Agreement with Zune.
February 17, 2010
WOODLAND HILLS, CA. Music Reports Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Zune for Music Reports to administer the music publishing licensing and royalty accounting for the Zune Pass subscription service in the United States.
Zune will participate in Music Reports’ statutory mechanical licensing and reporting program for digital music services. Under this program, Music Reports distributes royalties on behalf of digital music services to, and prepares music usage reports and royalty accounting statements for, more than 17,000 music publishing administrators representing more than 65,000 individual publishers. Publishers have the option to download electronic music usage reports and accounting statements from password-protected Music Reports websites.
About Music Reports
Music Reports, Inc. (www.musicreports.com) is the leading provider of music rights administration services in the United States. The company’s proprietary systems and applications set the standard for technology in the music industry. Music Reports also maintains the largest database of music copyright information in the world, the Songdex® database. The company offers a full spectrum of music rights administration services, including: copyright research; music clearance; sales data consolidation; music usage reporting; royalty accounting and royalty payment. Music Reports’ clients include the world’s largest television and radio broadcasters, digital music services, background music services, major record labels, mobile carriers and aggregators, and consumer products companies. Music Reports is a portfolio company of ABRY Partners, one of North America’s leading private equity investment firms, which is focused on media and information services.
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Music Reports Release:
Music Reports Announces Distribution of More Than $5 Million in Mechanical Royalties on Behalf of Digital Music Service Clients
September 16, 2009
WOODLAND HILLS, CA. Music Reports Inc. (“MRI”), the leading provider of music rights administration services in the United States, today announced that it has distributed more than $5,000,000 in statutory mechanical royalties on behalf of its digital music service clients. These royalties have been calculated at the rates applicable to on-demand streams and limited downloads, as determined by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board in 2008. Statutory mechanical licenses from MRI now cover more than 1 billion plays of digital music per month.
“Publishers are reaping great financial benefits from our statutory mechanical licensing program for digital music services,” said Douglas J. Brainin, President and CEO of Music Reports. “This program continues to be a critical component of any licensing strategy for digital music services.”
MRI now pays statutory mechanical royalties to more than 12,000 music publishing administrators, representing over 50,000 individual music publishers. MRI clients use the statutory mechanical license to obtain rights from the tens of thousands of independent music publishers who do not license through the Harry Fox Agency.
About Music Reports
Music Reports, Inc. (www.musicreports.com) is the leading provider of music rights administration services in the United States. The company’s proprietary systems and applications set the standard for technology in the music industry. MRI also maintains the largest database of music copyright information in the world, the Songdex® database. The company offers a full spectrum of music rights administration services, including: copyright research; music clearance; sales data consolidation; music usage reporting; royalty accounting; and royalty payment. MRI clients include the world’s largest television and radio broadcasters, digital music services, background music services, record labels, mobile carriers, and consumer products companies. MRI is a portfolio company of ABRY Partners, one of North America’s leading private equity investment firms, which is focused on media and information services.
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MediaNet News Release:
MediaNet Announces Revolutionary New Products to Bring Digital Music to the Masses
25 Customers Already Signed including iLike, MOG, Ultimate Guitar, Intertech Media
New York, NY, September 17, 2009 — MediaNet, the industry leading business-to-business provider of premium music and media delivery to customers of all sizes, announced today two new products, easy to install Web Components and an API through the Company’s advanced enterprise technology platform, MN Open.
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet, stated: “MediaNet is delivering the next generation of music services. We are changing the paradigm by bringing music to the user rather than forcing them to go to a handful of centralized online destinations to acquire downloads. The MN Open Web Components and API offer for the first time, the ability to engage users in the moment to discover and purchase music, while our customers can keep them on their site longer and maximize revenue.”
Customers can now sign up for the MN Open Web Components and API for free at www.mndigital.com and have a digital music offering up and running on their website or application quickly.
With the MN Open API, customers have complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and a 7 million song catalog with all services delivered under their brand. The API features include:
- Integration into any website or application
- Advanced catalog search capabilities with fuzzy matching
- Access to a portion of or the entire catalog and customized pricing
- Rich metadata for every song, album and artist
- Use of MediaNet’s e-commerce engine or integration with the customer’s existing e-commerce
- Compatibility with any programming language
MediaNet’s suite of Web Components is easy to install and incorporate into a website with no coding required. Customers copy and paste the code snippets anywhere on their page with their branding front and center. Web Components include:
- Media Matcher: Automatically matches MediaNet’s catalog against existing web content
- Media Links: Hyperlinks references to artists, albums and songs within existing content on page
- Relevant Media Search: Integrates into site’s existing search and returns media results alongside regular search
- Media Explorer: Dynamically displays music-related information with purchasable media
- Media Charts: Charts top selling content to entice music discovery, sampling and purchases
- Media Purchase: Fulfills purchases through an automatically configured and setup component which appears in its dedicated, secure window
Since introducing these products in the last eight weeks, MediaNet has signed up over 25 new customers from social media destinations, kiosk provider, and radio stations, to musician sites, music blogs, and news organizations.
Hadi Partovi, President, iLike, commented: “MediaNet’s technology made it easy for iLike to roll out an MP3 store in record time. iLike’s in-page MP3 purchase functionality helps keep iLike’s user base on the site, engaged in the discovery and sampling of music, while making the purchasing process easy.”
David Hyman, founder and CEO, MOG, added: “MediaNet has all of the right components we need to launch a streaming music service. A comprehensive catalog, superior back-end technology and the right pricing made it easy for MOG to select MediaNet as our music service provider. The integration process has been excellent and we are very excited about delivering new features for music lovers to interact and engage with MOG.”
Frank Murray, President of Intertech Media remarked: “With more than 1,000 radio station websites under management, Intertech Media is constantly looking for new ways to add value and revenue for our clients. MediaNet’s API and Web Components allow us to advance our mission of providing tools to keep listeners engaged online for longer periods of time with music content that is exciting and relevant. With MediaNet’s advanced platform, we have solved the problem for our clients to stop sending their users outbound to third party sites for music purchasing while creating a more seamless and integrated listening environment.”
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MediaNet’s world-class technology platform, MN Open, offers an API and easy to use Web Components that deliver a set of powerful music and media content products including streams, downloads, music search, contextual matching and other media discovery tools to engage end users while keeping them on your website or application longer to maximize revenues. MediaNet powers music and media delivery for brands of all sizes including iLike, Zune, HMV, Tesco, MOG, Ultimate Guitar, Intertech Media and many more.
MediaNet is privately-held and is headquartered in New York with offices in Seattle.
Music Reports Press Release:
Music Reports Announces Launch of Industry’s First Online Accounting for Digital Music Use
May 20, 2009
WOODLAND HILLS – Music Reports Inc., the leading provider of music rights administration services, today announced that it will commence accounting to more than 12,000 music publishers representing over 50,000 individual copyright owners on behalf of its digital distribution clients. This is the first accounting under an industry-wide agreement between music publishers, record labels and digital distributors in conjunction with the 2008 royalty rate set by the Copyright Royalty Board. Usage reporting and accounting will be available online for the first time in music publishing history.
This month, more than 12,000 music publishers may log in to password-protected websites at www.musicreports.com to view accountings, download monthly usage reports, and update song ownership information. Unequaled in digital copyright expertise, Music Reports has issued more than 5 million Notices Of Intent (NOIs), and negotiated thousands of licenses on behalf of its digital distribution clients in anticipation of the establishment of a royalty rate determined by the Copyright Royalty Board. To manage the accounting and fee settlement process, Music Reports will leverage the power of Songdex®, its independent database of music publishing copyright information. The company uses Songdex® to process over a billion digital transactions per month.
“Our strategies have focused on speed to market for content distributors, robust systems and services, and transparency for music publishers. With the launch of our new web-enabled royalty accounting application, we have created a world class data resource for both content distributors and copyright owners.”, said Douglas J. Brainin, President and CEO of Music Reports, Inc.
About Music Reports
Music Reports, Inc. (MRI), located in Woodland Hills, CA, is a leading provider of music rights administration services. With cutting-edge technology, proprietary systems and applications, and Songdex®, the world’s only independent database of music publishing copyright information, Music Reports is the most innovative and accomplished rights organization in media.
Music Reports offers a full spectrum of licensing services including copyright research, license fee negotiations, sales data consolidation, music use reporting, royalty accounting and fee settlement. Music Reports’ clients are among the world’s most recognized broadcasters, cable companies, record labels, digital media services, wireless carriers, and consumer products companies.
Music Reports is a portfolio company of ABRY partners, one of North America’s leading, media-focused private equity investment firms.
