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What is music licensing and how can it make an artist/songwriter successful? In the music industry, a license is really a “music clearance” sought by a person or company that wishes to use or reproduce another’s work. Currently, there a variety of ways in which licensing can create revenue streams for artists and songwriters. There are hundreds of cable TV shows that use music, films of all stature that need soundtracks, and cell-phones that can play ringtones and ringbacks, among others All of these involve money being paid in return for the right to use someone else’s music. continue

Podcasting is all the rage on the Internet right now and one of the many challenges facing podcasters today (and there are millions of them) is finding royalty-free music to use in their programs. Enter the Podsafe Music Network (PMN). Podcasters can go to this web site to find music to use in their programs that is guaranteed to be free of licensing restrictions. Here’s where you enter the picture – if you sign up for the PMN, you can make your music available to thousands of podcasters all in one place. While this means you are giving your music away for free use, the exposure potential is very good. If you have already been offering fans and visitors to your web site a few free music downloads to hook them on your music, you might as well make those available for use here as well.

Developments in entertainment technology and the increase in immediate, on-demand content for consumers have driven the expansion of today’s media landscape. With a rapidly growing number of physical and virtual platforms with which to enjoy music the control of copyright in such various uses has many legal implications. Foremost, new uses of content create a need for greater awareness and regulation of copyright infringement. continue

STS distribution is non-exclusive, and once you sign up, your music will instantly be available in several online stores. You can also create buy button links on your web site to let STS handle your credit card processing for you. You can use this same technology to sell your CDs from third party sites such as MySpace.com or from your emails. If you have a barcode for your product, all sales are automatically reported to Nielsen SoundScan. Finally, you can use this same buy button system to sell merchandise like t-shirts and hats! Submission to iTunes via STS is available as well. If your music does well via online sales, STS distribution increases to conventional store placement through FYE, Coconuts, Strawberries, Wherehouse Music, and others.

DRM content limitation is one of the ways companies are exploring ways too protect their assets while still satisfying customers. Apple, Microsoft, are competing to see whose DRM will become standard. Either one will become the permanent, integral part of corporate and internet infrastructure. As far as CD copying protection, many believe CD encryption schemes will never fully succeed and that the solution is to offer sufficient quality, convenience, and value to drive users to new systems voluntarily. Indies allow DRM free downloading while majors like EMI and Universal are still experimenting. However, Amazon has now signed all four majors to DRM-free deals. continue