Jamendo Offers an Alternative to Performance Rights Organizations and Launches an Innovative Service of Background Music for Public Places. Over 180,000 Pro-free Tracks Are Now Available as Background Music for Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Shops...

    LUXEMBOURG, February 27, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jamendo launches an innovative service of background music for public places.

Over 180,000 tracks not belonging to any PRO catalog are now available as background music for bars, restaurants, hotels, shops...

...hair salons, waiting rooms or spas: these are some of the types of public places to which jamendo's new background music service is destined. It is accessible online at http://pro.jamendo.com. The music is available through secured online streaming or on physical stockage devices.

With Jamendo Pro, professionals can offer varied, digital quality background music in their establishment, without any ads or interruptions, with a choice of musical atmospheres including pop, lounge, jazz, rock, classical and electro.

This service, like jamendo.com itself, is available in eight languages. Capitalizing on the rapidly expanding popularity of jamendo worldwide, Jamendo Pro aims to cater to all territories, from the USA to Asia and South America, as well as its strongholds of Western and Eastern Europe.

Thus, jamendo is confronting long-standing national monopolies held by ASCAP, BMI, PRS, GEMA, SOCAN, BUMA and all performance rights organizations around the world. It proposes instead what can be considered fair trade music, establishing jamendo as a collective rights society for the 21st century: at least 50% of all revenues are directly distributed to the concerned artists, without any other intermediaries. Creative Commons licenses, with their more flexible version of traditional copyright recognized in over 60 countries, constitute a solid legal backbone that ensures the music's protection.

Advantages

For professionals:
* an economical service in comparison to the fees charged by performance rights organizations
* easy to use
* no ads
* a large choice of music adapted to the atmosphere of their establishment
* legal conformity guaranteed by the delivery of a certificate justifying exemption from PRO fees

For artists:
* fair and direct remuneration
* an efficient way to get their music heard
* no exclusivity: they remain free to do whatever they please with their music

Read the article published about Jamendo Pro in The Music Void here.

Jamendo also provides licenses for any other type of professional use of music: for advertisement, television, documentaries, DVDs, video games, films, websites, etc.
However, for private uses, individual users can download all the music present on jamendo, legally and cost-free.

For further information, feel free to contact us
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About Jamendo

Jamendo is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. Available in eight languages, the site offers the largest music catalog under Creative Commons licenses: over 180,000 tracks by 8,000 artists from around the world. For artists, its an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, but also to make money, from donations, ad revenue sharing and licensing. Jamendo combines intellectual property, technology and business model innovations that make for a unique offer in digital music.

Source: Jamendo
Website: http://www.jamendo.com

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