[Fmpro] Music biz hopes to profit from consumer content

[Les Hurdle]

One is left wondering why the PRO's and unins can't
use this fingerprinting tech? [below]

Or is it the will?

les

--- Dana from Serious Vanity Music
<dana at seriousvanity.com> wrote:

> Happy new year, all!  I thought this might be of
> interest.  From Yahoo! 
> News:
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/nm/20070102/wr_nm/tech_dc_2
> 
> By Antony Bruno Tue Jan 2, 12:00 AM ET
> 
> LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - If 2006 was the year of
> user-generated content, 

> SNOCAP
> 
>The company's audio 
> fingerprinting technologies -- as well as those from
> Audible Magic and 
> Gracenote -- will play a key role in monetizing
> user-generated content by 
> shifting the burden of acquiring licenses for
> copyrighted works from the end 
> user to the service provider. Each time a fan
> uploads a copyrighted track, 
> for whatever purpose, the technology notes who owns
> the rights, which ad is 
> on the page hosting the content and how much the
> service provider is then 
> owed.
> 
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