Audiosocket’s Easy Listening Solution for Digital Music Rights

Music licensing on YouTube was thrust into the spotlight last month after the National Music Publishers Association filed a lawsuit against YouTube content network FullScreen over copyright infringement. As Brandon Martinez, co-founder/CEO of the digital music-focused INDMUSIC put it so delicately, “Music rights is a total mess.” Martinez said there is tremendous amount of confusion in the marketplace. A big issue is whether multi-channel networks like FullScreen bear the same responsibility as individual creators do when it comes to reimbursing music artists. But Audiosocket claims it now has a solution. The music-licensing firm offers a user-friendly Web interface that allows content creators to find music for their videos from emerging artists and pay for them legally and cheaply. Song rights cost as little as $5 for one of its 60,000 tracks (it's worked with the AP for a while). Now, the company is able to keep track of music on YouTube via LicenseID (LID), a new proprietary technology it will unveil this week that places a tag directly into music tracks when then are licensed. LID can help artists, record companies and anyone else who distributes music find out who is using their songs and make sure they are getting paid appropriately, according to Jennifer Miller, Audiosocket co-founder and president/COO. “Two-thirds of content out there has music, particularly UGC,” explained Miller. “YouTube receives 100 hours of content every minute, and there’s a... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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