Skype to roll out music ringtones
April 26, 2006
Skype, eBay's Internet telephone subsidiary, has announced a deal with music publishers that will make audio clips from artists like Madonna, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers available to its users as ringtones.
Clips from Madonna songs - including "Like A Virgin" and "Vogue" - will be available for $US1.50 each ($2.02), with other artists to follow, Skype said.
Luxembourg-based Skype signed license agreements with EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music and the British association for author and publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance.
The deals give the rights to songs from the publishers' catalogs, but not artist renditions of the songs. So far, Skype only has a performance-rights deal with Warner Music Group, home of Madonna.
Skype claims close to 100 million users, who call for free from computer to computer, or pay a small fee to place and receive calls from regular phones. Online auctioneer eBay bought the company last year for $US2.6 billion.
On cell phones, audio clips known as "master ringtones," have been a fast-growing segment, gradually replacing earlier synthesized tunes as phones have become more advanced.
Billboard magazine estimates that global sales of ringtones for cell phones totaled $US4.4 billion in 2005, up from $3.7 billion the previous year. Much of that growth was due to sales of master ringtones, according to the magazine.
However, unlike most cell-phone customers, sophisticated Skype users can make their own ringtones by importing audio clips from their computer's hard drive.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/skype-to-roll-out-music-ringtones/2006/04/26/1145861380200.html
Mobile phone ringtones, improving with time!
Aril 26, 2006
Katie Marie
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