{"id":1367,"date":"2012-02-02T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/02\/peter-gabriel-backs-new-music-licensing-website\/"},"modified":"2012-02-02T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:15:49","slug":"peter-gabriel-backs-new-music-licensing-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/02\/peter-gabriel-backs-new-music-licensing-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gabriel backs new music licensing website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hometheater.com\/images\/archivesart\/905talks.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"145\" \/><br \/>Former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel has put money behind music licensing firm Cuesongs, which aims to provide covers of popular music tracks for public use.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Cuesongs has teamed up with the likes of EMI and Sony to record the covers and Gabriel is supporting the venture as an angel investor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy introducing low prices and easy online access, Cuesongs is creating a new market for music, to satisfy a huge untapped demand that can begin to provide new income streams for artists,\u201d Gabriel told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The tracks will be available to individuals, small businesses and not-for-profits. The website providing the service is currently still in its beta stages, with a full launch scheduled for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Music Publishers Association has welcomed the arrival of this kind of platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These services look to provide proper controls and safeguards for creators, whilst at the same time easing access and simplifying the process for those small businesses wanting to use music,&#8221; said MPA spokesperson, Will Lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not talking here about individual web users paying to upload a clip of their child dancing to the radio as a YouTube clip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather, this is aimed at the thousands of small businesses using social media in their commercial activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel has put money behind music licensing firm Cuesongs, which aims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}