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/.
