SpiralFrog, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with EMI Music Publishing, the world’s leading music publishing company, to authorize SpiralFrog’s use of EMI’s vast catalog of musical compositions available for legal downloading in the United States via SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service.
The agreement with EMI Music Publishing, whose catalog is the largest in the world, is the first agreement SpiralFrog has signed with a global music publishing company. It follows SpiralFrog’s ground-breaking agreement with Universal Music Group, announced last week. The two music industry leaders’ combined rights bring the catalogs of hit artists such as Sting, Nelly Furtado, Jay Z and Kanye West to SpiralFrog.
Importantly, SpiralFrog has also obtained a worldwide license to enable users of SpiralFrog’s service to search for and display the lyrics of EMI Music Publishing’s Anglo-American repertoire.
We are very pleased to help launch SpiralFrog, said Roger Faxon, Co-CEO of EMI Music Publishing. It is a very exciting concept which fuses advertising with music downloads and other services to recapture consumer demand which has been hijacked by online piracy. Anytime we can create a new revenue stream for our songwriters and combat online piracy, you will see EMI Music Publishing leading the charge.
i hate sprialfrog
[sarcasm] Woohoo! Make me “watch” (i.e. ignore) advertising so I can get a “free” music download – that I can’t move to another machine or burn to CD? My computer has felt lonely and incomplete ever since the Sony rootkit came off it and I didn’t need that fair use malarkey anyway. SIGN ME UP!!! [/sarcasm]