US internet companies reach copyright deal on cloud music and record labels

Foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> media reports, it internet companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google and music record companies have reached a copyright fee agreement on cloud-based Music services.

It is reported that the Digital Media Association, as a representative of Internet enterprises, has reached an agreement with the American Association of Phonographic Industry and the American Music Publishers Society to set the royalty rates for the Cloud music service between 2013 and 2017. The deal sets out five types of cloud music royalties, involving Apple's icloud, Amazon's online music service and Google's free cloud service. In addition, it also fine-tuned the existing costs of CDs and downloading music on the web. The agreement will be submitted to the U.S. Copyright Commission.

"This is the first time we have reached a deal before the lawsuit," said Lee Knife, executive director of the Digital Media Association, Li Hu Naif that the technology industry and the music industry are closer together. The future of the cloud music industry is to provide online services, the more services we can provide, the better the whole industry will develop. ”

Last year, Apple, Google and Amazon launched a cloud service that allowed users to access, buy, and store music through networked devices, a technology that appeared in the previous copyright fee agreement and thus contributed to the deal. "By reaching a copyright agreement, more and more companies will be able to provide music services," Naif said. "(Sang)

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