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Caught this over at the Recording Revolution. Graham did a 10 minute review on the service.

For only $20 a year, you can have any of your music posted to over 10 different sites like iTunes, Google Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc.....

Sounds like a pretty good deal for the price.

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Good info. Thanks

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Yes, they are much cheaper than CDBaby which I have used in the past; CDBaby is definitely not the only game in town anymore, which is good!!

There is another place that claims to do it all for free, I posted a link about it a while back. I haven't used them myself (yet) and don't know anyone else that has, so this is not a recommendation, just posting the link for reference.

Here: https://freshtunes.com/

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Originally Posted By: BlueAttitude


Thanks!

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Freshtunes license:




2. Your Content

You will continue to own all intellectual property rights in your Content.

You hereby grant to us a non-exclusive (subject to the remainder of this paragraph 2), worldwide, royalty-free, transferrable and sub-licensable right (but not the obligation) and licence over: (i) your Content (and any part of it); (ii) your name, image, likeness and biography and the names, images, likenesses and biographies of the contributors and artists whose performances are embodied in the Recordings (the “Performers”); and (iii) any intellectual property rights in any of the foregoing, to enable us to copy, distribute, modify, edit, display, use, create derivative works of, communicate to the public, transmit, make available and otherwise exploit them for the purposes of: (a) making the Content available for, and facilitating, licensing to the Distribution Network (and to end users of the Distribution Network); (b) displaying the Content on or via the Service and webpages, apps and other properties owned or operated by the Distribution Network; (c) marketing or promoting the Content, the Service and the Distribution Network; (d) providing VAS (as defined at section 5 below) to you; (e) our own internal and technical arrangements and requirements; and (f) the general operation of the Service (as it may be updated from time to time).

Without limiting the foregoing, you further hereby grant to us the royalty-free, worldwide, transferrable, sub-licensable right (but not the obligation) and licence to:

(a) Reproduce, communicate to the public, distribute, sell, disseminate, transmit (including by way of downloading and streaming), synchronise with moving or still images, market, promote, advertise, alter and otherwise use and exploit the Recordings (and any part of them, including clips of Recordings) by any and all means and media (whether now known or existing in the future) through, on or via the Exclusive Distribution Network (on an exclusive basis) and the Distribution Network (save for the Exclusive Distribution Network, on a non-exclusive basis) and collect all income resulting, arising or deriving therefrom (including any collection society payments, other than in respect of your share which is paid directly by a collecting society to you); and

(b) Use your name, image, likeness and biography, and the names, images, likenesses and biographies of Performers, together with your Metadata and Artwork and other information in connection with the exploitation of the Recordings and promotion of them.

Please note that, without limiting the foregoing, you are granting us the exclusive right to license your Recordings via the Exclusive Distribution Network. This means that you may not license or authorise anyone else to license such Recordings to the Exclusive Distribution Network partners directly. If the Recordings you upload to the Service have already been uploaded to an Exclusive Distribution Network partner service, then you must remove such content immediately.



I think I'll pass on this one. grin




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Isn't it basically saying that once you have signed with them and they distribute your music for you to iTunes and all the other digital sites, you can't then go to someone else and get them to distribute the same music?

Which is basically the same as CDBaby and reverbnation.

But I don't understand any of that legal talk to be honest, makes my head hurt crazy

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I would pass on freshmusic as well due to the licensing thing. About the only hope I will ever make on music is through sync licensing. Right now, I control that through a single channel.

Reading that disclaimer above it COULD mean that it's a limited licensing to whatever the Exclusive Distribution Network partners are, but it's hard to determine who those partners are, because they don't specify it directly. They have this comment about who the network partners are:

" “Exclusive Distribution Network” means YouTube (including all versions of it and in all forms) and any other provider or retailer of the Distribution Network which we designate as falling within the Exclusive Distribution Network from time to time."

Seems too loose to me to get friendly with it.

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