CSS Music Implements Digital Fingerprinting to Combat Piracy

CSS Music, a leader in royalty free background music and sound effects, announced today that it will retain premier audio monitoring service, Tunesat, LLC (New York), to track the use of its music. CSS Music joins the world’s largest music publishers and libraries in its continued partnership with Tunesat.
CSS Music plans to use Tunesat’s diligent tracking in the fight against music piracy and copyright infringement which have become increasingly prevalent since the mid-nineties. As one of the first royalty free libraries to advocate for the use of this digital fingerprinting technology, CSS music affirms its place as forerunner in production music.
“The days of piracy and rampant copyright infringement are numbered, says CSS Music Marketing Director, Mike Fuller. But beyond catching cheaters using music illegally and unethically, audio fingerprint music recognition technology will soon make the end user’s task of finding the right music much, much easier.”
The implementation of music recognition technology has many applications including:
• Complex search capabilities that accurately match end users with the music needed for a given project.
• Effective gathering of evidence to combat copyright infringement, even when music is “buried” under layers of dialog, sound effects and noise.
• Allows content owner to properly monetize use of music.
CSS Music Marketing Director Mike Fuller, details the benefits of digital fingerprinting, “Much of the drudgery associated with reporting music use will also be eliminated. But end user piracy and infringement is only one aspect of intellectual property protection. Soon copyright ownership will be easier to determine in an environment where musical compositions are often submitted to multiple libraries on a non-exclusive basis and then re-titled. Even at the music production stage unlicensed sampling of copyrighted music can be detected. It will be a brave new world, not so much to be feared but to be embraced and used by all—producers and end users of music.”
CSS Music expects to imbed its entire stock music library with the detection software for monitoring in the United States, Europe and worldwide through the internet. CSS anticipates an increase in revenue received from its performing rights organizations Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) as Tunesat continues to uncover unreported use of its music.
About CSS Music:
Established in 1982 in Los Angeles, CA, CSS Music is a royalty-free music company with a library of more than 12,000 tracks. CSS Music provides royalty free music and sound FX for film, video and television producers. CSS is dedicated to working with music supervisors, editors, directors and producers to meet their creative needs. For more information on CSS Music visit http://www.cssmusic.com/.

CSS Music / D.A.W.N. Music Offers Updated Royalty Free Music Bulk Download Plans-- $40 in FREE Downloads to Demonstrate

When it comes to the ultra competitive royalty free music market today, a plethora of delivery systems have cropped up each purporting to save the end user the most money while delivering the most product at the same time. It often boils down to two basic concepts, subscription plans vs. a bulk download plans.

On the surface both types of download plan appear the same but they actually work differently. Typical subscription plans come in both 1-month and 1-year terms. While they may offer “unlimited synchronizations” during their terms, downloads expire when the subscription expires. Music downloaded for a given production can not be re-used for subsequent productions. Bulk download plans on other hand work essentially like a pre-paid phone card. You fill up or re-fill the “card” and download until the money deposited is used up. The downloads themselves don’t expire and can be used in an unlimited number of productions typically for 50 - 99 years.

“Royalty Free Music subscription plans are really not royalty free in the traditional sense”, says CSS Music Creative Director, Mike Fuller, “1-month or 1-year subscription plans being offered today effectively re-invent the production blanket or annual blanket plans of old. Those plans were and still are inflexible and very expensive and were the reason royalty free music was invented in the first place back in 1978.

“We’ve recently updated our two bulk download plans at CSS Music / D.A.W.N. Music to offer even more bang for the buck, especially at the entry level. The typical end user saves 50-90% over regular single track downloads while preserving the integrity of true royalty free licensing. To demonstrate how easily and effectively CSS /D.A.W.N. Bulk Download Plans work, we’re offering $40 in FREE Downloads using our Plan I.”

The two CSS Music / D.A.W.N. Music Bulk Download Plans can be purchased online in one of 10 pricing tiers starting at $199 for 20 downloads. For more information on CSS Music /D.A.W.N. Music Bulk Download Plans or to get a promotion number for the $40 in FREE Downloads Demonstration of Plan 1, call 1800-468-6874 or visit DAWNMusic.com.

WATCH OUT FOR MISLEADING SUBSCRIPTION DOWNLOAD PLANS

Some new download subscription plans being offered are not really royalty free in the traditional sense. They are in reality quasi production and annual blanket plans. They purport to offer "unlimited downloads". But in reality they only offer unlimited synchronizations during a given month or year. If you purchase a BULK DOWNLOAD PLAN from CSS Music / D.A.W.N., every selection is licensed to you for a full 99 years, not just a month or a year. Use each and every downloaded selection as many times as you like in any given production and in an unlimited number of productions. Furthermore, there is never any time limit for taking your downloads. Take a day, take a week, take a year or more if you like. AND you'll never have any monthly subscription credit card charges that automatically get added to your account. If you have questions about how D.A.W.N. bulk download plans compare with these new plans from other libraries, please call us at 800-468.6874 and ask as many tough questions as you like. We're here to help. If you like unlimited synchronizations fine, but remember if you don't do enough in a given month to justify the expense, you may be wasting your money.

CSS Music Supports Anti-piracy Web Site

CSS Music and D.A.W.N. music applaud and support the efforts of Brian Nimens of Sound Ideas in his launch of a non-commercial web site dedicated to the education of music users about issues relating to copyright, how production music and sound effects are licensed and what actually constitutes piracy. Very important for all in the industry to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with these issues. Please take a few moments soon and visit this important site and pass the word.

http://www.helpstoppiracy.com

Special Limited Time Offer

Call this the deal of the century if you like. It goes away July 16, 2011 and if definitely is worth a look see

http://www.cssmusic.com/blasts/home-8.html

Link To New Newsletter

http://coolillustrations.com/css-music_newsletter/cssmusic-12.html

New Stop Piracy Website

Please visit this new website about piracy and infringement http://www.helpstoppiracy.com