Skype secures worldwide music licenses.Skype has announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for Skype. The agreements are with three major music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. companies -EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Warner/Chappell Music--and the UK's collecting society for author/publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance. The new licenses will allow Skype to lawfully distribute master tones from the roster of current partner Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : WMG WMG Warner Music Group WMG Wireless Messaging Gateway WMG Williams Media Group WMG Where's My Glasses? WMG Woah My God WMG Wireless Marketing Group WMG Wisconsin Musical Groups WMG Windows Metafile Graphics WMG Wireless Media Gateway ). World-renowned recording artists from Warner Music Group can now be downloaded as ringtones to Skype users in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland and within weeks to the rest of Skype's more than 94.6 million registered users worldwide. This publishing alliance will also pave the way for agreements with additional music recording companies. |
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