{"id":1761,"date":"2007-10-02T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/02\/getty-wants-to-be-your-music-broker\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:22:11","slug":"getty-wants-to-be-your-music-broker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/02\/getty-wants-to-be-your-music-broker\/","title":{"rendered":"Getty wants to be your music broker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must have missed the news that Getty Images — one of the largest image-licensing firms around, next to Bill Gates’s Corbis — had bought a company called Pump Audio back in June and was getting into the music-licensing business. Then I read this morning on TechCrunch<\/a> that PumpAudio has relaunched<\/a> as part of the Getty site, offering a song-tracking and licensing tool called (what else) Soundtrack.<\/p>\n

sound-of-music-dvdcover.jpgAlthough the service is starting small, with just 20,000<\/a> songs from independent artists, Getty says it wants to expand through deals with the major record labels and others — and knowing Getty, it is likely to do so with a vengeance. Maybe it will even get into the “crowdsourcing” of music, the way it did with photos by buying Calgary-based success story iStockphoto.com.<\/p>\n

Whether Getty succeeds or not remains to be seen, but there’s no question that the music-licensing business needs some organization. Insiders — including Spiral Frog CEO Joe Mohen, who I interviewed for this recent piece<\/a> — say the process of getting all the required performance and publishing rights for a piece of music is byzantine and in some cases almost impossible, since there are thousands of different publishers and no central repository of information. A real “goat rodeo,” as a friend of mine likes to say.<\/p>\n

If Getty can help to bring some semblance of order to that process, it will not only benefit anyone who is trying to license music — including perhaps the folks at Saturday Night Live, who had to pull a hilarious video from SNL off YouTube because they apparently failed to get a license<\/a> for an Aphex Twin song — but will also benefit (theoretically) the artists who make the music.<\/p>\n

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I must have missed the news that Getty Images — one of the largest image-licensing firms around, next to Bill Gates’s Corbis — had bought a company called Pump Audio back in June and was getting into the music-licensing business. Then I read this morning on TechCrunch that PumpAudio has relaunched as part of the … <\/p>\n

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