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<strong>NMPA</strong> INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION INTERNATIONAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2002<br />

worth at least $700 million annually,<br />

and could possibly be worth as<br />

much as $1 billion per year. The<br />

proceeds are divided between<br />

operators, labels and the artists,<br />

and the creators and owners of<br />

musical compositions.<br />

Informa’s report stated that costs<br />

vary widely by country: Russia’s<br />

largest mobile phone operator,<br />

MTS, charges 30 cents per download,<br />

while Australia’s Vodafone<br />

charges $1.83.<br />

An increased sense of cooperation<br />

is also developing between<br />

music companies and mobile<br />

phone operators, who are actively<br />

looking at the joint revenue-generating<br />

possibilities of selling everything<br />

from ringtones and phone screensavers<br />

to music downloads and<br />

videoclips. U.K.-based wirelessresearch<br />

company EMC forecasts<br />

that the number of mobile-phone<br />

subscribers in several of the world’s<br />

major territories will show significant<br />

increases between now and<br />

2004: it predicts that in Western<br />

Europe the number will rise from<br />

the current 304 million to 364 million;<br />

in Eastern Europe, from 55<br />

million to 76 million; in North<br />

America, from 148 million to 188.5<br />

million; and in the Asia-Pacific<br />

region from 302 million to 399 million,<br />

displacing Western Europe as<br />

the world’s largest single market.<br />

At the same time, U.S. wirelesscontent<br />

service provider Moviso<br />

has predicted that 550 million<br />

consumers internationally will be<br />

subscribing to wireless entertainment<br />

by 2004, increasing to 775<br />

million in 2005.<br />

In another important development,Anderson<br />

Merchandisers,the<br />

music distributor for the Wal-Mart<br />

retail chain, has agreed to buy<br />

some of the assets of digital music<br />

pioneer Liquid Audio, which has<br />

licenses to distribute over 350,000<br />

songs.Anderson expects to distribute<br />

music downloads through the<br />

websites of a number of retailers,<br />

including Wal-Mart.<br />

On the performing-rights society<br />

front,ASCAP partnered with interactive<br />

radio concern YES Networks to<br />

create Media guide,a jointly owned<br />

company that promises optimal<br />

monitoring of music performances<br />

on radio, TV, and the Internet using<br />

YES’ proprietary technology, while<br />

BMI launched Online Works in conjunction<br />

with its eight European<br />

partners in the digital copyright network<br />

FastTrack,which currently covers<br />

about 7.2 million works.<br />

In January 2003, FastTrack<br />

announced it had paid $300,000<br />

for a 60% stake in the Argos<br />

<strong>International</strong> Organization and its<br />

digital rights management technology,which<br />

allows licensees to automate<br />

the process of sending data<br />

about the use of works to copyright<br />

owners.The technology was developed<br />

by Spanish society SGAE and<br />

German society GEMA in 1998.The<br />

remaining 40% of Argos is owned<br />

by SGAE and its digital arm sDae.<br />

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