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CD Baby Members Use SML's Weed to Sell Music.


SEATTLE -- Under an agreement announced today, Portland, OR-based CD Baby will offer its 65,000+ affiliated artists the option to distribute their music online using the Weed file format. Developed by Seattle's Shared Media Licensing, Inc., Weed(SM) files can be freely shared over the Internet, yet they still earn revenue for musicians.

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 business has mushroomed to become the world's largest online retailer of independent music, with sales exceeding 1 million CDs. CD Baby's digital distribution service currently includes over 230,000 titles by independent artists.

Weed provides CD Baby members with an entirely new way to distribute their music. Unlike most digital music files, Weed files are designed to be shared legally over the Internet. When you get a Weed file, you can listen to it 3 times for free before being asked to buy it. If you buy it, you can share it and earn a 20% commission when someone else buys it. The artist earns 50% on every sale.

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Since the Weed service debuted in December of 2003, artists ranging from unsigned independents, to Grammy-winners like Sir Mix-a-Lot Anthony Ray (born August 12 1963), known as Sir Mix-a-Lot, is a Grammy Award-winning rapper and producer, originally from Seattle, Washington, U.S.. Life and work , and mega-acts like Heart have embraced the Weed concept. "It's the only Internet distribution service that allows people to share music without shortchanging artists in the process," says Beezer.

More information:

--Weed, main site: http://www.weedshare.com

--Weed, press resources: http://weedshare.com/web/press.html

--CD Baby, digital distribution program: http://cdbaby.net/dd

--CD Baby, main site: http://www.cdbaby.com.
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