BMI and LicenseMusic.com Announce Innovative Collaboration Agreement; One-Stop Music Licensing Service for Internet Media Producers.Business/Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2000 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 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. and LicenseMusic.com, the leading provider of online music licensing services, today announced the signing of a collaboration agreement. The agreement will enable BMI to provide the online licensing for performance rights for music offered to Web sites by LicenseMusic.com. The innovative agreement establishes a cooperative relationship enabling LicenseMusic.com to offer comprehensive music licensing over the Internet. Under the terms of the agreement, Web designers, creative directors, Web media producers and other Internet professionals licensing music from LicenseMusic.com will be able to obtain Klik-Thru licenses via BMI's Digital Licensing Center (DLC (1) (Data Link Control) See data link and OSI. (2) (Data Link Control) The data link layer protocol (layer 2) that is used in IBM's SNA networking. See SNA, data link protocol and Microsoft DLC. ). LicenseMusic.com can then offer the rights for use of master recordings and compositions in audio-visual productions Likewise, visitors to BMI's Website, www.bmi.com, will be able to click through to LicenseMusic.com upon identification of any song that is also contained in LicenseMusic.com's repertoire Repertoire may mean Repertory but may also refer to:
Summarizing the agreement, Gerd Leonhard This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , President/CEO of LicenseMusic.com stated: "Licensing music for Internet-related productions, such as Website sonification, rich media advertising, digital marketing campaigns and interactive online presentations, is a market that is exploding. With this agreement, BMI and LicenseMusic.com realize the potential of professional online music licensing, and we look forward to future opportunities in this area." Said Richard Conlon, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Media Licensing, BMI: "This agreement signifies the next stage in mainstreaming the DLC for the digital business-to-business world. BMI is always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new ways to monetize Monetize 1. To convert into money. 2. To convert from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. Notes: For example, you'll often hear Internet marketers talk about "monetizing website visitors. the Internet and keep our services simple and easy to use. LicenseMusic.com has stepped up as a new partner in helping BMI to protect songwriters rights on the Internet." About BMI: BMI, a U.S. performing rights organization founded in 1940, is one of the few established music companies to embrace the Internet to proactively develop new revenue streams for songwriters. BMI.com provides Internet companies an instant, simple licensing solution to legally stream any of their 250,000 songwriters' 4.5 million registered compositions. About LicenseMusic.com: LicenseMusic.com is the only Internet site to both license and deliver music online specifically for the audio-visual production industries. The site represents the catalogs of over 175 record labels and music publishers such as Harmonia Mundi, Metal Blade, Chesky, Alligator alligator, large aquatic reptile of the genus Alligator, in the same order as the crocodile. There are two species—a large type found in the S United States and a small type found in E China. Alligators differ from crocodiles in several ways. , Warlock and KnitMedia as well as a growing library of music from 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. The LicenseMusic.com collection contains more than 50,000 pre-cleared online tracks with access to over one million tracks through its network of providers. |
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