NMPA_International_Survey_12th_Edition
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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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