BMI and EMusic.com Announce Licensing Agreement and e-Commerce Agreement.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999-- Agreement Encompasses IUMA IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive IUMA Interim Use Material Authorization Access, eCommerce and Listening Poll BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. (R), the U.S. performing rights Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two) when a business uses music in a public performance. organization, and EMusic.com(R)(Nasdaq: EMUS), one of the leading sellers of downloadable music on the Internet, today announced a licensing and eCommerce agreement that will benefit the more than 200,000 songwriters, composers and publishers represented by Broadcast Music, Inc. The agreement between EMusic.com and BMI also covers the Internet Underground Music Archive The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of on-line music. IUMA was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993, for the purpose of providing a venue for unsigned artists to share their music and (IUMA), EMusic.com's site for independent, unsigned unsigned Adjective (of a letter etc.) anonymous Adj. 1. unsigned - lacking a signature; "the message was typewritten and unsigned" signed - having a handwritten signature; "a signed letter" artists. "This agreement brings the next level of digital services to our writers and publishers and creates another source of potential income. With the acquisition of IUMA, EMusic.com has expanded their already far-reaching site to include both established and up and coming songwriters," said BMI's President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Frances W. Preston. She added: "Five years ago we were the first performing rights organization to license Web sites and we have been distributing royalties for Web performances since January 1998. Our agreement with EMusic.com is further proof of our commitment to harness the power of technology for everyone we serve." "EMusic.com is completely committed to making sure that songwriters, composers, and music publishers receive fair and accurate compensation for their work," said Bob Kohn, chairman of EMusic.com. "With this agreement, BMI and EMusic.com are at the forefront of representing this constituency's best interests on the Internet. The digital revolution is a huge opportunity for the entire music industry -- and we want to ensure that BMI's writer/publisher affiliates are positioned to make the most of it." John Shaker Shaker Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian sect. Derived from a branch of the radical English Quakers (see Society of Friends), the movement was brought to the U.S. , BMI Senior VP/Licensing added: "Developing the market for commerce and the performance of BMI music on the web is a top priority for us. This agreement is a comprehensive license covering the performances of music in the BMI repertoire on the EMusic.com and IUMA websites. Through the advertising banner exchanges and download sales referrals we are taking the performing rights business to a new level by providing these kinds of digital services to songwriters, businesses and consumers." Pursuant to the agreement, EMusic.com and IUMA will take a BMI blanket music performance license as part of the overall EMusic.com license agreement. This license will cover streamed as well as downloaded performances. In addition, EMusic.com and IUMA have separately agreed on the following: - Digital Download  The perspective and/or examples in this article do not represent a world-wide view. Please [ edit] this page to improve its geographical balance. eCommerce: BMI and EMusic.com will participate in a referral eCommerce link located on BMI's popular repertoire search database, where BMI will offer a link to EMusic.com's commerce engine to help stimulate potential sales of digital downloads for its songwriters. The companies are planning a direct link between their databases enabling websurfers to directly view writer information on the BMI site and the digital download availability on EMusic.com. - Banner Advertising Banner Advertising A common form of advertising on the internet. The banner is an advertisement of 460x68 pixels, usually placed at the top of the page Notes: For an example, just look at the top of a page on almost any popular web site. Exchange: BMI and EMusic.com will participate in a banner advertising exchange to promote traffic on their sites. The companies will trade hotlinked banner advertising between their sites. - E-lectric Web Listeners Poll: EMusic.com and BMI will field a web listening poll enabling visitors to the EMusic.com site to access the popularity of select musical works available for download on the EMusic.com site. - Artist Uplink for BMI Writers: IUMA will offer BMI writers the opportunity to use Artist Uplink(TM), IUMA's Web site creation tool for artists. Using Artist Uplink, BMI writers will be able to create free, fully customizable Multi-page Web sites with their own unique Web addresses. BMI and IUMA will highlight the most popular BMI writers' pages and allow consumers to search the IUMA site for BMI music in a special part of the IUMA site. BMI will promote the Artist Uplink service to its writers and publishers. - Most Popular BMI Song List on EMusic.com: EMusic.com will create a special area on its website to showcase BMI songwriters and composers, as well as provide links to bmi.com, including listing the most popular BMI titles in terms of total listens (downloads and browsing) on their site. In summarizing the agreement, Richard Conlon, BMI VP/Marketing and Business Development, commented: "This agreement underscores BMI's solid commitment to the web. We believe that we can help create legitimate markets for the sale and performance of music by crafting creative relationships like this one with EMusic.com and IUMA. In the past year, we have tripled our Internet income largely because of the professional relationships we have been able to form. BMI, EMusic.com and IUMA have all been pioneers in the Internet space and we are looking forward to continuing to build this new medium form BMI writers and publishers." About EMusic.com Since it was founded in January 1998, EMusic.com has established itself as a leader in the growing market for downloadable music. www.emusic.com is a Web site for sampling and purchasing music in the MP3 format, which has become the standard in the digital distribution of music. Through direct relationships with leading artists and exclusive licensing agreements with over 90 independent record labels, EMusic.com offers an expanding collection of over 25,000 tracks for purchase -- entire albums for $8.99 or individual tracks for 99 cents each. EMusic.com features top artists in all musical genres, such as Alternative (They Might Be Giants, Frank Black, Morphine), Punk (Blink-182, The Offspring, Pennywise), Jazz (Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie Noun 1. Dizzy Gillespie - United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993) Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie , Louis Armstrong), Blues (John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Buddy Guy), Hip Hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. (Kool Keith Keith Matthew Thornton (born c. 1964), better known as Kool Keith, is an American hip hop artist and record producer. Career An original member of New York's new school pioneers the Ultramagnetic MCs, Thornton is best known as a solo rapper. , The Coup), Country (Merle merle a pattern of coat color pigmentation with dark, irregular blotches on a lighter background. Seen in some Collies and Welsh corgis. In shorthaired dogs, e.g. Great Danes and Dachshunds, the similar pattern is called dapple. Haggard, Patsy Cline Patsy Cline (b. Virginia Patterson Hensley September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer, who enjoyed pop music cross-over success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s. ), Classic Rock (George Harrison, David Crosby, Frank Zappa), World (Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Lee 'Scratch' Perry) and Vintage Pop (Liza Minnelli, Eartha Kitt, Judy Garland). The company is based in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. . About IUMA IUMA pioneered the delivery of music on the Internet in 1993 and is one of the premier destinations for new music. IUMA showcases the web sites and music of thousands of emerging artists to millions of music fans through the IUMA website and syndication partners like Yahoo! and CollegeClub.com. In June 1999, IUMA merged with EMusic.com, allowing IUMA fans access to downloadable music from a broad spectrum of top artists from over 90 leading independent labels, such as Epitaph epitaph, strictly, an inscription on a tomb; by extension, a statement, usually in verse, commemorating the dead. The earliest such inscriptions are those found on Egyptian sarcophagi. , Rykodisc, spinART, Jetset and Ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. -- and allowing IUMA artists greater visibility among these key Indie labels. Both IUMA and EMusic.com are based in Redwood City, California. About BMI In 1995 BMI introduced the first Digital Copyright Agreement in the music industry. The organization enhanced the digital marketplace through its initiatives BMIMusicBot(TM) and the Watermarking Field Trial initiatives, both elements of the expansive Horizon Project launched earlier this year. Internet sites licensed by BMI include EMusic.com, Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person Online, Tunes.com, Spinner.com, Broadcast.com and The Ultimate Band List (UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with ). Founded in 1940, BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents the copyright interests of more than 200,000 songwriters, composers and publishers in all genres of music. Through its music performance and reciprocal agreements, it grants businesses and media access to its repertoire of more than 3,000,000 musical works from around the world. BMI and BMIMusicBot are registered trademarks of Broadcast Music, Inc. EMUSIC.COM is a trademark of EMusic.com Inc. IUMA and Artist Uplink are trademarks of the Internet Underground Music Archive, Inc. |
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