Originally for Satama Research Blog
I just found an interesting and innovative content service – Mercura. The company states to do the following:
# Create the world’s largest music catalog by leveraging peer-to-peer technologies and user contributed content.
# Unleash the music by building technologies that make this content available to anyone on the network in the form of CD-quality broadcasts.
# Delight the listener by providing great search, discovery, personalization and community services.
# Uphold the letter and spirit of the copyright law by building compliance and reporting into our products and services and paying performance royalties to organizations that represent songwriters and music record labels.