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Dequency adds a new range of digital media to its music licensing platform

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Peer-to-peer sync licensing marketplace Dequency has expanded access to its blockchain-based music licensing service to a broad range of digital media, including advertising, corporate videos, podcasts, and games.

When Dequency launched its web3-powered music rights marketplace in 2022, the platform offered music for licensing into web3 metaverses, games, and other digital audiovisual assets. The company said the new development will "bring smart contracts and automated pricing benefits to ...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

Digital Economy

Music licensing platform Songtradr has acquired online music store Bandcamp

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Music licensing platform and marketplace Songtradr has acquired online music store and community Bandcamp. In parallel, Bandcamp parent company Epic Games — producer of the game 'Fortnite' — is investing in Songtradr to support Bandcamp’s successful integration into Songtradr. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Epic Games is also exploring ways to partner with Songtradr to build an inventory of music where artists can opt in to have their music licensed for use in Epic’s ecosystem. Epic ...

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Creative Industries

Getty Images launches a ‘commercially safe’ AI-powered image generator

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Visual content marketplace Getty Images has launched, in partnership with NVIDIA, a "commercially safe generative AI tool" that will allows customers "to explore the power of generative AI with full protection and usage rights."

Generative AI by Getty Images has been trained on the Edify model architecture, which is part of NVIDIA Picasso, a foundry for generative AI models for visual design. The company said the tool was trained "solely from Getty Images’ vast creative library, including ex...

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Collective Management Organisations

LyricFind seals a strategic agreement to license lyrics from IPRS members

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The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) and lyrics licensing platform LyricFind have entered a strategic partnership and licensing agreement.

The deal will ensure that "all IPRS creators and publisher members with assigned rights are accounted and paid for the display of their lyrics across all of the over 100 digital platforms and clients that are serviced by LyricFind," according to a statement from IPRS.

"This partnership offers to all our creators and publisher members ...

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