Skype Calls on EMI, Sony, Warner in Ringtone Deal

April 28th, 2006

Skype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service.

The eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies — EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music — as well as with the UK’s collecting society for author/publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which is a partnership between the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and The Performing Right Society.

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