Artspages, a leading digital distributor from Norway, and RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services, announced today that Artspages will utilize RightsFlow’s proprietary mechanical licensing system (“FLOW”) to license, account, and pay publisher royalties for DPD, interactive streams and limited downloads, including subscription and ad-supported models on behalf of Artspages’ label clients.
“Partnering with RightsFlow helps us solve a common headache for our distributed labels – clearing publishing rights for the United States,” stated Dagfinn Saetra, Managing Director of Artspages. “Now our labels can tap into the knowledge base of RightsFlow in remedying the situation and adapt to the recent rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board.”
“RightsFlow is very happy to announce this latest agreement with Artspages,” stated Patrick Sullivan, President and CEO of RightsFlow. “We are excited to help further Artspages’ goal in helping their labels in providing a one-stop solution to handle their mechanical licensing, accounting, and royalty needs.”
Under U.S. Copyright Law, mechanical licenses are required for music to be distributed through online music services. The current U.S. statutory mechanical rate for permanent downloads is 9.1¢ for songs five minutes or less and 1.75¢ per minute for songs over five minutes. Limited download and interactive streaming services generally pay a mechanical royalty of 10.5 percent of revenue, less amounts owed for performance royalties. RightsFlow’s licensing service utilizes the bulk licensing system of The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), a leading U.S. music rights licensing organization, to ensure publishers and songwriters are properly compensated under U.S. law.
About Artspages: Artspages is a leading digital distributor based in Oslo, Norway providing distribution services for labels worldwide to iTunes, Amazon.com, Beatport, Napster, and Rhapsody among others. Clients include Border Music Distribution, Jazzland, Propeller Recordings, Division Records, and Tellé Records.
About RightsFlow: RightsFlow offers Mechanical Licensing & Royalty Solutions for labels, distributors, and online music services. We specialize in obtaining bulk mechanical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited downloads rights. Our proprietary “FLOW” system allows us to license, account, and pay royalties directly to the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) and the thousands of publishers not represented by HFA. Today, RightsFlow services over 1,200 labels for mechanical and DPD licensing. Some of the many clients we service include marquee companies such as EMI Music, Muzak, Active International, Artspages, CD Baby, Mint Records, IODA, Pandigital, TV Land, Audible Magic, One Italia, YouLicense, Constellation Wines (Blackstone), X5 Music Group, Zebralution, 180 Music, La Cupula Music, C.A.M. Original Soundtracks, BFM Digital, and Disc Makers, among others. For more information on RightsFlow’s services and management team, visit
You can start creating your own music by using music beats that you can get from sites that have people producing different kinds of beats for other people. Some people find that they have the knack to create the lyrics and have an idea as to what kind of sound that they want but they don’t have the musical knowhow to help them piece together the song that keeps on playing in their head. This is where free beats from beats sites and beats membership groups come in. You can get royalty free music beats from beats sites as long as you sign on as a member and pay either a monthly membership fee that will help get you a number of free beats for you to use in a month or you pay an annual fee that gets you more than just the limited number of monthly free beats that a monthly membership gives you. These royalty free beats that you get from these sites come in a number of genres that you can choose from and if you have unlimited access, you can get as many of these as you want and use them in any way you want to. Free music beats can be spliced together, mixed in with other instruments, mixed with vocals and other things that you need to complete your music. You can choose from beats with hooks, beats made for dancing, beats that can be used for rap and other kinds of beats that can help you create the hits that you have running in your head.
Hilary Mujikwa is the founder of a Hip hop Beats site that is dedicated to helping people find high quality Music Beats online. He also runs a Free Music Downloads site you might be interested in.
One thing you must have at your conference or seminar is a keynote speaker – keynote speakers are the main speakers at the conference and who you get will depend on the topic being discussed. Often there will be more than one topic on the agenda in which case you may need other professional speakers. However the keynote speaker has the important job of setting the whole tone of the conference and delivering the most important message.
A professional speaker will usually specialise in one or two subjects that he has had a great deal of training and experience in. They may be a business speaker or a marketing speaker. Or they may speak on any number of other topics. Instead of working in this field, he or she now lectures and trains others in how to do it and many people can benefit from listening to the experienced speaker.
Motivational speakers work in a slightly different way. They have the knack of motivating and inspiring people to do what they have just learned how to do from the professional speaker. So instead of feeling that it is all too hard, the listeners are actually inspired to get the job done. Inspirational speakers may also give practical tips on how to go about the task under discussion.
All such speakers are in effect leadership speakersbecause they are leading or telling others the best ways to perform in their work. A good leadership speaker will be one who can communicate effectively. They can inform and entertain at the same time so that people actually enjoy listening to them as well as receiving the benefit of their advice.
If you are wondering where you can locate such people to take care of the needs of your next conference or seminar, then you can usually hire them from a speakers bureau. Many industry and motivational speakers keep in contact with the speakers bureau to get work speaking at conferences.
The guide shows how to crack drm from protected wmv, wma, m4p, m4v, m4a, aac files and convert to unprotected WMV, MP4, MP3, WMA or any video and audio formats you like, such as AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP, m4a, aac, wmv, ogg, wav… Queston 1: I purchased and downloaded some wmv videos from online music store but they are all DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected, which means that I can not enjoy them on my MP3 player and even play them using Windows Media Player on my PC. Could you please tell me there is a way to remove drm from WMV? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Answer:Daniusoft Digital Media Converter Pro software is the quickest and easiest solution to remove drm from WMV, M4V, M4P, WMA, M4A, AAC, M4B, AA files by quick recording. It gets audio and video stream at the bottom of operating system, so the output quality is lossless and the conversion speed is fast . The process is as follows.
Queston 2: I have some AVI videos download from Limewire and want to watch them on my iPod Touch, but when I import my videos to itunes it pop an error – “The file ‘xxx.avi’ cannot be imported because it does not appear to be a valid exported file”, what should I do? Answer: iPod Touch accepts only MP4 format video, so you need to convert your downloaded videos to MP4 supported by your iPod Touch,Daniusoft Digital Media Converter Procan meet your need. Input format: DRM audio and DRM video (WMA/WMV/M4A/M4B/M4P/M4V/ASF) Common audio and video formats: MP4, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, RM, RMVB, DAT, MOV, FLV, VOB, MP3, WAV, M4A, WMA High-definition video: M2TS, TP, TRP, TS, AVI Output format: Audio: MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, OGG, and APE. Video: MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, ASF, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, MPG, VOB. Make Preparision: Download and install the DRM Removal Software Stpe 1 Run the software and click “Add…” button to load WMA or M4A, M4B, AAC, WMV, M4P, M4V, ASF files Step 2 Choose output formats. If you want to convert protected audio files, please select “Convert audio to” list; If you want to convert protected video files, please select “Convert video to” list. Stpe 3 You can click “Settings” button to custom preference for output files. Click “Settings” button bellow “Convert audio to” list for protected audio files Click “Settings” button bellow “Convert video to” list for protected video files Step 4 Start remove DRM and convert your DRM protected music and videos by click on “Start” button.
What is DRM? DRM, which is most commonly found in movies and music files, doesn’t mean just basic copy-protection of video, audio and ebooks, but it basically means full protection for digital content, ranging from delivery to end user’s ways to use the content. We can remove the Drm from video and audio files legally by quick recording.
