{"id":6275,"date":"2016-11-07T20:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/11\/07\/soundcloud-reaches-an-agreement-with-gema-stim-and-prs-for-music\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:05:06","slug":"soundcloud-reaches-an-agreement-with-gema-stim-and-prs-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/11\/07\/soundcloud-reaches-an-agreement-with-gema-stim-and-prs-for-music\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud Reaches An Agreement With GEMA, STIM And PRS For Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f4\/SoundCloud_logo%2C_orange_color%2C_plain.svg\/190px-SoundCloud_logo%2C_orange_color%2C_plain.svg.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>ICE and SoundCloud are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for a new multi-territory licence. This follows the previous agreement reached between SoundCloud and PRS  for Music which covered the use of its repertoire since SoundCloud&#8217;s  launch.  <!--more-->  <br \/> In 2015, the launch of the ICE processing and licensing hub brought  together online rights for the combined repertoires of GEMA (Germany),  STIM (Sweden) and PRS for Music (UK) under one company.<\/p>\n<p> This new ICE agreement covers SoundCloud services available across  Europe including the recently launched SoundCloud Go subscription and  ad-supported offerings available in the UK, Ireland and France. The  agreement also brings together the combined repertories of the ICE  partners with state of the art processing and matching capabilities and  the most comprehensive copyright database in Europe which will, for the  first time, allow ICE partners to receive royalties when their combined  250,000 songwriter, composer and publisher members&#8217; works are used by  SoundCloud.<\/p>\n<p> The rights covered under this new agreement will help accelerate  SoundCloud&#8217;s continued development and further launch of its  subscription and ad funded services across more territories in Europe to  the benefit of all creators.<\/p>\n<p> Working in partnership with ICE, SoundCloud continues to make  significant strides towards improving the quality of data delivered to  rightsholders. It now offers its users the functionality to add a wide  range of industry recognised metadata to uploaded content, thus driving  accuracy and enabling the ICE processing hub to maximize the royalties  it passes back to PRS for Music, GEMA, STIM, and their members.<\/p>\n<p> Ben McEwen, ICE Licensing Commercial Director, said: &#8220;The deal with  SoundCloud marks another significant step forward as ICE continues to  work to simplify multi-territory licensing for the benefit of  rightsholders and digital music service providers alike; we are  delighted to welcome SoundCloud as a licensee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Donagh O&#8217;Malley, Vice President, Content Partnerships, SoundCloud, said:  &#8220;We&#8217;re pleased to have reached yet another agreement that enables us to  continue to build a place for voracious lovers of music and all forms  of creative audio content, whilst ensuring rights holders&#8217; work is  rewarded and respected. The agreement with ICE adds to the growing  number of deals that expand our already expansive catalogue of unique  content, and strengthen our connected community of creators, listeners  and curators who are fuelled by their genuine passion for music and  creativity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: <\/span><span class=\"normal\">PRS for Music <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICE and SoundCloud are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for a&#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-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","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=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}