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TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK | Online Services — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:40:03 +0000

[...] TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK TheBizmo is a new ‘online music store in a widget’ which is being launched by UK firm UGC Ltd in partnership with London-based investment and advisory firm Ariadne Capital. Essentially it is an embeddable Flash media player (or widget) complete with a store. Since it does not operate a f… [...]

By: Groove Mobile

Groove Mobile — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:31:08 +0000

Groove Mobile has not entered into a relationship with UGC Ltd. or Ariadne Capital and was not involved in the development of the online music store widget called ‘TheBizmo.’ A press release was issued mentioning the developers’ past backgrounds with Groove Mobile but they are no longer affiliated with the company.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:52:06 +0000

David - Kudos to you for listening to the feedback.

By: David Gjester

David Gjester — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:43:34 +0000

Hi Guys
The three founders of UGC (thebizmo) Myself, Alf G and Lars K are all former musicians.
We built the system to provide artists a super simple, turnkey e-store for their sales and marketing work. Part of the key to having this system work is that fans and other artists are meant to mutually promote and sell each others stuff.

This again means that we need the upfront permission of the content owner to do all sorts of stuff. Having said that, and in the interest of making everyone feel safe and happy, we could probably remove one or two words from the above quoted sentence. In fact I think we will do just that

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TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK-free music downloads sites — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:21:17 +0000

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TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK-legal mp3 music downloads — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:40:47 +0000

[...] albumbuyonline wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptTheBizmo is a new ‘online music store in a widget’ which is being launched by UK firm UGC Ltd in partnership with London-based investment and advisory firm Ariadne Capital. Essentially it is an embeddable Flash media player (or widget) … [...]

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TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK-music videos downloads — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:12:06 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptTheBizmo is a new ‘online music store in a widget’ which is being launched by UK firm UGC Ltd in partnership with London-based investment and advisory firm Ariadne Capital. Essentially it is an embeddable Flash media player (or widget) … [...]

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TheBizmo music store widget launches in UK-free online music downloads — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:49:55 +0000

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:34:50 +0000

EH - Fair enough, however, they have to have SOME rights (though not ownership) in order to be able to transmit the performance of the band in question. Perhaps we need a lawyer to take a better look

By: EH

EH — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:52:13 +0000

Although the terms and conditions do say:

“For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your content”

they qualify this by saying:

“However, by submitting the content to bizmo, you hereby grant UGC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content in connection with the bizmo service and UGC (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the bizmo service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.”

Depending on what use bizmo intend to make of uploaded content, that could cut across a band’s “ownership rights” pretty substantially…