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[10/18/2004] The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), representing over 190,000 members, and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), representing most of the nearly 12,000 commercial radio stations in the U.S., today announced a new agreement totaling in excess of 1.7 Billion dollars. This is the largest single licensing deal in the history of American radio.

The settlement, which was approved by Federal District Court Judge William C. Conner on October 15, 2004, provides stations with the right to perform ASCAP music over the air and also as part of a simultaneous stream of their over-the-air signals on their Internet web sites. It also provides fee certainty to both the radio industry and ASCAP’s members. [more @ www.businesswire.com]

AOL UK has agreed a groundbreaking licence with the MCPS-PRS Alliance to cover the provision of a comprehensive online music content service. MCPS and PRS are the licensing organisations that ensure the legal provision of online music services in the UK on behalf of composers, songwriters and music publishers.

The agreement, developed under MCPS-PRS’ Joint Online Licence (JOL), grants AOL access to around 10 million musical works and clears composer and publisher rights, which are a pre-requisite for the use of music online.
[more @ www.recordoftheday.com]

[April 21]RMD Entertainment, Inc. announced today its subsidiary RMD Dance, has signed an expanded licensing agreement with Megabop Records for distribution of an entire album by C and C Music Factory in the United Kingdom.

The original licensing agreement was solely for distribution of RMD Dance’s hit single Freedom Williams/C and C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now…Sweat.” All told, this individual song has sold over nine million copies to date, making it the dance music industry’s all-time leader in unit sales. It will now be contained in the new album, “C and C Music Factory’s Greatest Hits Remixed,” along with updated versions of the four other classic platinum hits by the group. [more @ www.businesswire.com]

Top Italian melodic Hardcore band Sun Eats Hours are looking to license their album ‘Tour All Over’, released this month in Italy, to new territories in Europe and worldwide.

The band have toured extensively in Europe, supporting some of the best worldwide punk hardcore bands such as Offspring, Pennywise, Afi, Sick of it all and more, generating great media exposure and European radio play.

We believe this band has great potential and as such are handling licensing enquiries. Contact us direct at liam@yourrelease.com

For more info, pics, biog and Audio samples, Click HERE.

Top Italian melodic Hardcore band Sun Eats Hours are looking to license their album ‘Tour All Over’, released this month in Italy, to new territories in Europe and worldwide.

The band have toured extensively in Europe, supporting some of the best worldwide punk hardcore bands such as Offspring, Pennywise, Afi, Sick of it all and more, generating great media exposure and European radio play.

We believe this band has great potential and as such are handling lisencing enquiries. Contact us direct at liam@yourrelease.com

For more info, pics, biog and Audio samples, Click HERE.

MP3.com’s former chief technology officer and another entrepreneur are trying to keep the company’s royalty-licensing program, known as TruSonic, alive as an independent business.

Today, TruSonic—a new company founded by Daniel O’Neill, the former chief technology officer and vice president of engineering for MP3.com, and Joseph Tebo, an independent investor—announced that it had acquired the TruSonic brand and related assets from MP3.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA Group.

Prior to the acquisition, TruSonic, the company, did not exist. It was formed explicitly to reposition the TruSonic assets, said Tebo, president and chief executive officer of the new company. Tebo acknowledged that the original MP3.com business, which also provided free storage and access to music from independent artists, had problems. But he said the TruSonic side of the business, which generated revenue based on a monthly subscriptions, has great potential on its own. [more @ www.news.com.com]

Sam Dodson from Loop Guru has just finished work on the next Slipper album ‘When Hot Dogs Fly’ with new singer Andrea Black as featured artist.

With guest appearances from Daniel Lazerus, Jamuud, Jym Darling, Theremin supremo John Woodley, amongst others, the album has been described as brilliant by erstwhile Steely Dan producer Gary Katz.

The track “Marooned” will be the title track of the new animated movie by 20th Century Fox currently being completed by film producer David Logan in Los Angeles. Daniel Lazerus in Los Angeles as also added some great harp, guitar, and Hammond and mixed some tracks in Dolby 5.1 surround sound in Hollywood.

This record is available for licensing. For more information, please contact : chris@mechanismrecords.com.

The global music industry will today announce a new licensing system for the distribution of music on the internet – the latest effort to develop legitimate online services.

Under the new structure, internet service providers will be able to negotiate multi-territory licensing agreements with the music industry rather than face negotiations in each country where they provide webcast music services.

The deal – negotiated by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – follows a rapid rise in unauthorised file-sharing over the web. In the first half of the year, illegal downloading contributed to a 10.9 per cent decline in recorded music sales to $12.7bn (EU-11bn, £7.6bn). [more @ www.ft.com]

“Money In Music: Do You Know the Cold Cash Facts of Music Clearance?” an article written by columnist and musician The G-Man, is published on the main web page of NARIP (National Association of Record Industry Professionals).

All musicians will be interested in the article, which contains insights, tips, ideas, and contact info in the profitable world of licensing music for film, TV, toys, greeting cards, games, and more. Have a look at NARIP’s site at:www.narip.com

The Fairport Convention album The Wood and The Wire is the first album to be licensed and go live for on-demand distribution to all the leading on-line retailers. A simple licensing deal allows demand to be continually met, simply and cost effectively to the benefit of all parties. If any LL readers, anywhere in the world, would like to licence albums to the same service contact philiparrowsmith@thedisckiosk.com