Nokia Australia Signs Licensing Deal with APRA|AMCOS for Comes With Music
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Nokia has signed a groundbreaking licensing deal with the Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (APRA|AMCOS) to support its Comes With Music Service. The deal provides Nokia with blanket access to APRA|AMCOS’ vast repertoire of music: over 10,000,000 songs, and counting.
Comes With Music is a pioneering music offering which enables consumers to discover and enjoy music like never before. Customers who buy a Comes With Music device can explore and enjoy a diverse catalogue of music from both international and local artists with unlimited downloads from the Nokia Music Store for 12 months. Customers can download to a PC or handset, transfer between the two devices and most importantly keep all the music they’ve downloaded, forever - revolutionising their digital music experience.
“Our objective is to bring music creators and consumers together,” said Brett Cottle, CEO APRA|AMCOS. “The demand from Australian consumers for new digital music services is growing rapidly. Our aim is to accommodate that demand and translate it into new royalty streams for songwriters and publishers.
“Innovative services like Comes With Music represent the new breed of digital music service where everyone gets a fair return. Unlike illegal P2P services, consumers get affordable quality digital music to keep - while songwriters, artists, music publishers, and labels also get paid,” said Cottle.
Karen Farrugia, Nokia Australia’s Music Manager said, “Illegal downloading not only deprives songwriters and artists of their royalty payments but also takes away consumer certainty in quality downloads. Often, illegal downloads are of poor quality and come with digitally transmitted diseases including computer viruses – Nokia’s service just comes with music.”
“We are delighted that with Comes With Music we can offer a secure, quality and affordable service which gives consumers certainty and superiority in their digital music experience and importantly protects music creators,” she said.
The United Kingdom was the first market to offer Comes With Music in October 2008 and Singapore and Australia are expected to launch later this quarter.
Find out more about Comes With Music at www.nokia.com/comeswithmusic
Editor’s Note
Nokia has also entered into pan European licenses for its Comes With Music service with Universal Music Publishing Group, and the national collecting societies SACEM, SDRM, and SESAM (France), SGAE (Spain), and SIAE (Italy). In addition, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and the Nordic societies STIM (Sweden), TEOSTO (Finland) and TONO (Norway) have also confirmed their participation in the Comes With Music Service across Europe, and Nokia has concluded a pan European license with CELAS/EMI Music Publishing in respect of Nokia’s download service, Nokia Music Store.
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
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