EMusic.com Adds Full Song Streaming

EMusic.com Inc. and the Harry Fox Agency Inc.
today said they amended their previous licensing agreement so the site
can add full-song streaming to its subscription service.

EMusic.com will pay the agency, a unit of the National Music Publishers'
Association Inc. (NMPA), a one quarter of a cent ($.0025) royalty fee the
first time a song is streamed by a user.

Music fans can download MP3 files from EMusic.com for 99 cents
per song or $8.99 for an album, or buy a subscription at $9.99 per
month for unlimited downloads.

EMusic.com president Gene Hoffman said the new streaming
feature allows customers to hear songs they want to preview,
have access to background music, or listen to holiday music they
don't want to own.

"We are adding flexibility by adding streaming, that's what this new
license
allows us to do," Hoffman said in a news release. "We think it adds a
pretty significant feature to our core downloading."

More information on EMusic.com is available on the Web
at http://www.emusic.com.

The NMPA is also online at http://www.nmpa.org.