The Association of Independent Music (AIM) has partnered with anti-piracy specialists, MUSO, to provide a free digital piracy protection service to independent labels and artists.
Members of AIM – a trade body which provides a collective voice for the UK’s independent music industry – will be able to monitor and automatically remove unlicensed music and content from the internet through the service.
Key features include 'content protection, automatic takedowns and an online dashboard that will allow content owners to see all piracy protection activity for their content.'
Andy Chatterley, co-founder and chief executive of MUSO said: 'The impact on independent music businesses can be particularly hard without a consistent mechanism to remove unlicensed content from the internet. We are therefore delighted to be partnering with AIM to provide a new free-to-label digital anti-piracy service.'
According to MUSO data, 73.9bn visits to music piracy websites were made last year, up 14.7 percent on 2016.
The new initiative will be officially launched at AIM’s Music Connected Conference, which takes place in London on 20 April.
Members of AIM – a trade body which provides a collective voice for the UK’s independent music industry – will be able to monitor and automatically remove unlicensed music and content from the internet through the service.
Key features include 'content protection, automatic takedowns and an online dashboard that will allow content owners to see all piracy protection activity for their content.'
Andy Chatterley, co-founder and chief executive of MUSO said: 'The impact on independent music businesses can be particularly hard without a consistent mechanism to remove unlicensed content from the internet. We are therefore delighted to be partnering with AIM to provide a new free-to-label digital anti-piracy service.'
Paul Pacifico, chief executive of AIM added: 'We can all agree that music piracy remains contentious and protection has been a historically difficult area. MUSO is at the forefront of digital piracy protection and are experts in the business intelligence insights that can be gleaned from it.
'This new partnership gives our rightsholder members access to a highly sophisticated anti-piracy solution, free at the point of access, and allows them oversight of their online content and piracy activity.
'Pirates steal both money and consumer data with no return for artists. This service will allow AIM Members to focus on the very positive relationships between artists and their fans by cutting out the pirates and is a huge win for us all.'
According to MUSO data, 73.9bn visits to music piracy websites were made last year, up 14.7 percent on 2016.
The new initiative will be officially launched at AIM’s Music Connected Conference, which takes place in London on 20 April.
