SESAC Broadcasts its Use of CMJ’s RAM Service to Assist with Royalty Distribution
Service Powered by Audible Magic’s Patented Digital Audio Identification Technology
LOS GATOS, California — August 27, 2003 — The CMJ Network and Audible Magic have announced that SESAC has become the first corporate customer to utilize data from CMJ’s Realtime Airplay Metrics (RAM) airplay reporting service. RAM, the first service to comprehensively track airplay on college, non-commercial and “early-adopter” radio, utilizes Audible Magic’s patented digital audio identification technology. In light of its 25-year artist discovery and development mission, RAM is a natural evolution to CMJ’s growing platform of media, event and data-centric products and services. SESAC, one of the three major performing rights organizations in the USA, will utilize RAM data in its monetization of non-commercial radio and its ongoing effort to improve the accuracy of performance royalty distributions to songwriters and publishers.Read more
SESAC Signs Agreement with Audible Magic to Begin Audio Fingerprinting Tests
SESAC Represents First Major Performing Rights Organization to Implement CBID Technology
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — January 15, 2002 — SESAC, the fastest growing performing rights organization in the U.S., today announced a three-year, non-exclusive agreement with Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of digital audio identification technologies and services, to monitor terrestrial radio broadcasts utilizing Internet simulcasts. SESAC represents the first major performing rights organization to implement content-based ID (CBID), a technology that identifies audio content by electronically “listening” to it and generating unique digital fingerprints for items such as individual songs or advertisements. The agreement is specifically designed to assist in determining royalty distribution. The initial rollout, which began last fall, utilizes Audible Magic’s patented audio fingerprinting technology to monitor the simulcasts.Read more