Skype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service. The eBay subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies — EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music — as well as with the UK’s collecting society for author/publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance.
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Skype Calls on EMI, Sony, Warner in Ringtone Deal
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire April 27, 2006 12:24 PMSkype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service. The eBay subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies — EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music — as well as with the UK’s collecting society for author/publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance.