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TMCNet: Music Reports Announces Music Publishing Licensing and Reporting Agreement with Zune

[February 17, 2010]

Music Reports Announces Music Publishing Licensing and Reporting Agreement with Zune

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Music Reports Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Zune for Music Reports to administer the music publishing licensing and royalty accounting for the Zune Pass subscription service in the United States.

Zune will participate in Music Reports' statutory mechanical licensing and reporting program for digital music services. Under this program, Music Reports distributes royalties on behalf of digital music services to, and prepares music usage reports and royalty accounting statements for, more than 17,000 music publishing administrators representing more than 65,000 individual publishers. Publishers have the option to download electronic music usage reports and accounting statements from password-protected Music Reports websites.

About Music Reports Music Reports, Inc. (www.musicreports.com) is the leading provider of music rights administration services in the United States. The company's proprietary systems and applications set the standard for technology in the music industry. Music Reports also maintains the largest database of music copyright information in the world, the Songdex® database. The company offers a full spectrum of music rights administration services, including: copyright research; music clearance; sales data consolidation; music usage reporting; royalty accounting and royalty payment. Music Reports' clients include the world's largest television and radio broadcasters, digital music services, background music services, major record labels, mobile carriers and aggregators, and consumer products companies. Music Reports is a portfolio company of ABRY Partners, one of North America's leading private equity investment firms, which is focused on media and information services.

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