Cuban record labels to go online.SDAE SDAE Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (Beloit, WI) SDAE Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores, SL (Spain) SDAE San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company , the digital arm of Spanish authors' society SGAE SGAE Sociedad General de Autores y Editores Española (Spanish General Association for Authors and Publishers) , is building a comprehensive online music store A Web-based service that sells copyrighted songs and albums for a fee. With Apple's iTunes being the most popular, an online music store is a legitimate music distribution organization that pays royalties to the music's copyright holders. for Latin repertoire from Spain and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Billboard magazine reported Jun. 23. The first step in SDAE's initiative involves digitizing "Digitizer" redirects here. For the computer device, see Digitizing tablet. For the digitizer in Tablet PC's, see Tablet PC. Digitizing or digitization more than 8,000 songs from leading Cuban labels EGREM (3,000 tracks), Bis Music (3,000), Abdala (1,800) and Producciones Colibri (300). The material involves such internationally known names as Compay Segundo, Chucho Valdes & Irakere and Silvio Rodriguez. Billboard says SDAE has struck a deal to make the tracks available as downloads on RealNetwork's Rhapsody (1) A subscription-based online music service from RealNetworks that gives users unlimited access to a vast library of major and independent label music. Within a single interface, Rhapsody provides access to streaming music, Internet radio and extensive music information and by early September. Telefonica's Terra Espana unit, the leading Spanish download service, will begin selling the repertoire online in July at www.musicapremium. terra.es; other leading music services are expected to follow by late 2005. Rights payments will be handled by SDAE. Mario Rigote, SDAE's marketing director, says the initiative aims "to generate SGAE members' authors rights and to promote quality Latin music." SGAE has over 60,000 members, including 3,000 from Cuba. "We want to give the world's Latin-produced Latin music catalogs the same online selling conditions as Anglo-Saxon catalogs enjoy today," Rigote says. "We will negotiate first [with labels] in countries where SGAE has offices--which it does in Cuba, Brazil and Mexico." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rigote, the latest deals cover virtually all Cuban repertoire recorded during the last 40 years that is available domestically. SDAE will concentrate on independent catalogs. "By building up a truly indie catalog," Rigote says, "we are in a much stronger position to negotiate with big download services." The Cuban deals also involved SDAE setting up online stores for EGREM and Bis. Egrem.net launched on the label's 40th anniversary in March; a Bis site will be live by year's end. "It has been hard work to persuade [Cubans] to put their catalogs online," Rigote admits. "So we set up their own download services for them to sell directly before the catalogs become available elsewhere." |
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