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MusicNet

How does MusicNet sell my music?

IMPORTANT: As of Tuesday, July 24, 2007, MusicNet (currently renaming itself to "MediaNet") no longer accepts submissions. Although TuneC has successfully delivered music to MusicNet and its partner stores for many months, MusicNet has informed us that it is no longer accepting any submissions. TuneC is continuing its partnership with MusicNet in the hopes that in the future we can begin redelivery. IMPORTANT: If you have albums already for sale in the stores MusicNet delivers to, those albums will remain available for sale. If your music was slated for delivery to MusicNet but has not yet been accepted by them, they will be unable to process your request. TuneC is working with MusicNet to compile a list of those affected; if your album(s) was affected, your account will receive a complete refund for the store. TuneC will pro-actively contact you and add $0.99 to your account balance for each album MusicNet was unable to process. Thank you for understanding.

MusicNet provides branded digital music stores for other companies. At the moment, MusicNet’s comprehensive suite of digital music services include Yahoo!, Cdigix Ctrax (on more than 30 college campuses), iMesh, HMV Digital, Virgin Digital U.K., FYE Download Zone, MTV’s Urge, Microsoft’s Zune and MusicGremlin. MusicNet is the world’s leading business-to-business digital music service provider.

When you selected to have your albums delivered to MusicNet, your music was be placed in all the stores/services MusicNet currently provides and any future ones they may add. IMPORTANT: There is no way to pick and choose which stores you want to be in at MusicNet–it is an "all or nothing" choice. If you choose to have your music delivered to MusicNet, be aware they may drop or add stores/services, and your music will be removed from any dropped stores/services and/or into any new stores/services. IMPORTANT: Some current or some future stores that are part of MusicNet may distribute in countries outside the United States. You currently MUST have worldwide rights to your music before you select to have it available in the MusicNet group of stores. In the near future, TuneC will offer you the ability to control what parts of the world you make your music available in.

MusicNet sells music in various ways:

• MusicNet Subscribers ("Members") can stream all the music they want for as long as they want as many times as they want for as long as they are subscribers. They can also buy permanent downloads, if they wish.
• MusicNet Customers can buy permanent downloads, if they wish, without subscribing to any membership. They cannot stream songs on demand, like subscribers can.
• MusicNet Trial Subscribers ("Trial Members") are trying out the MusicNet subscription streaming service, and will be able to stream as many songs as they want as many times as they want for 30 days at no charge; after the thirty days, they will have to pay to subscribe to keep on-demand streaming. NOTE: They can also buy permanent downloads, if they wish. YOU ARE NOT PAID FOR ANY SONGS STREAMED IN A TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION.

IMPORTANT: Anyone can sign up for MusicNet and get unlimited free streams for 30 days. If a customer streams your music during this period, you will not get any payment for them–it’s considered promotional. This is a MusicNet policy. If you do not like the idea of people streaming your music for free, please do not choose MusicNet as one of your digital distribution stores.

What do I get paid when songs STREAM from MusicNet?

For STREAMS, MusicNet works on a Subscription Pay Rate Permanent Download model. MusicNet does not pay a pre-set amount for each stream. For each three month period, MusicNet calculates how many songs were streamed and how much money was paid to MusicNet for subscriptions in that period. This rate changes from period to period based on how many songs are streamed and how much money was paid to MusicNet for subscriptions.

To get the per-song Pay Rate, MusicNet divides the amount of money made by the number of songs streamed. This sets the Pay Rate for each song streamed. From this Pay Rate, MusicNet then deducts out Allowed Expenses (these are not negotiable and are the same Allowed Expenses deducted from all other labels and artists working with MusicNet). As always, TuneC takes nothing, passing all of your money on to you. You get 45% of what remains.

For Example: Say, in the months of January, February, March there were a total of 1,000,000 songs streamed from MusicNet by all customers streaming all songs. Imagine in those same months MusicNet took in $250,000 in digital streaming pre-pay revenue. That makes each individual stream worth $0.25.

From this $0.25, MusicNet then deducts expenses (credit card processing fees, advertising, bandwidth, other expenses). For this example, let’s say the expenses come to $0.05 per song. This is subtracted from the $0.25 per song, leaving $0.20.

From this remaining $0.20, 45% goes to you. So in this example, you would make $0.09 per song streamed: $0.09 is the Subscription Streaming Pay Rate for this store in this period. If you had forty streams from MusicNet in this period, you’d make 40 x $0.09 = $3.60 (U.S.), and as always, TuneC takes nothing, 100% of that money goes to you.

What do I get paid when songs ARE DOWNLOADED from MusicNet?

For DOWNLOADS from MusicNet, regardless of whether or not the customer is a "Member," you get a fixed "pay rate," the same pay rate for all independent record labels. (Click for more information about the Fixed Pay Rate Permanent Download model). Remember, only MusicNet can set the sale price, but no matter what they sell that song or album for, you always get the current pay rate. Even if they want to have a discount, say, offering its customers your songs for a penny each, you still get the full pay rate every time one of your songs or albums sell.

HOW MUCH IS THE PAY RATE?

TuneC takes none of the money from the sale of your music. You get it all. Music can be downloaded from MusicNet in several possible ways:

• Songs downloaded individually generate the song pay rate for that country (see below)
• Albums under 11 songs are priced by the song. To calculate how much you would receive from the sale of an album with less than 11 songs, multiply the number of songs on the album by the song pay rate for that country (see below)
• For albums with 11 or more sold in their entirety, you receive the album pay rate for that country (see below).

Song Pay Rates, By Country:

Album Pay Rates for Albums Sold In Their Entirety, By Country:

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