Museeks Licensing Group (MLG)

If you think your tracks are good, and will sell (for instance in a Discovery show, TV plane crash or COPS scene, or a luvvy-dubby stuffed-animal commercial), then you should definitely join with us, because our own tracks are selling, and so should yours. You will gain all the advantages of our legwork of growing Industry contacts & clients. Being part of a large, easily searchable group catalog gives you and us the ability to approach Film/TV and Radio producers with far more variety and quality than just a few titles. This is one of the keys to winning repeat sales.

Participate early by uploading your recordings. You can start by getting your free artist page, and uploading your tracks & descriptions. The search should work immediately. But they won't be featured in our promotions to Film/TV and Radio producers. For that you must officially join MLG below.

• Must have a MuSeeks Artist page and be an Audio Hosting artist to join MLG
• Group fee pays for our 1/2 to 1 hour to review titles and rank them to database so producers can find them
• And pays for advertising to music licensing prospects: Film/TV producers, Film Schools, Ad Agencies and more.

Museeks is focused on developing superior song-search and licensing revenue opportunities for its member artists (of which our founder Art Sulit is also an artist and a member). Being a music search engine (akin to Yahoo) as well as a download-sales service (akin to iTunes) gives us tremendous advantages of exposure to the general public, as well as to professional media producers. So now is a very good time to list your works. We are looking for high quality production tracks suitable for broadcast TV or radio advertisements or corporate & educational beds.

The normal fee for MLG membership is $65/year. However, if you sign up now for $35, you will be among the first and the few to be seen in our PR efforts. If you have good tracks, the program increases your exposure. We've licensed our works for $500 and up to global broadcast clients like St. Regis Hotels and Sports Illustrated. We're actively promoting our own works, and this fee helps cover our high costs to promote your catalog alongside ours, as well as our expertise in negotiating legal contracts, fee collection, payment, our proprietary Industry Insider's mailing list and more.

Join MLG - $35 (Limited Time Only, regularly $65)

When you join MLG, you get:

• Industrial-Strength Song Search Database, constantly upgraded for you!
• A human to review and rate your tracks to show up higher on our licensing search.
• The members-only ability to enter "mood", "tempo" and other traits so Film/TV producers can find you by mood/tempo.
• The increased financial power as a group of fellow artists: the more members who join,
  the more Producers and Ad Agencies we can advertise to! Please refer MLG others! There is power in numbers!
• Co-promotion along with our own popular "film soundtrack" quality catalog.

	Recordings are normally ranked according to your self-rating and pricing, but still
	are well below those which have been previewed/verified by our staff.  If you order this
	service, we will listen to each of your recordings and rank them, taking into consideration your own
	self-rankings entered (from "my personal best" to "my personal worst"...5 stars to
	1 star, which you enter optionally in each song submission form).  This will allow our 
	Industry Clients to fully trust the quality of tracks we recommend to them, rather than just
	being at the bottom of the pile.  The better ones we will
	bais to come out higher in each customer's search results.

Audio Hosting of your files:

What are some of the financial opportunities? All you need are 100 clients paying you $200 to $10,000 or more per license (depending on track length used and nature of use), and you will have made at least $20,000. If your tracks are used in restaurant setting or corporate phone-on-hold music, you can be earning a few hundred to a few thousand a month per client. If your track is used in a large-budget film, it could command license fees of $50,000 or more.

We do the legwork, and help you negotiate the highest fees for you. We have access to paralegals and full entertainment attorneys to draft custom contracts, and will do so in exchange for typically 30% to 40% of the license fee (every deal is different). Our work (follow-up calls to the producers, typing, reciept of taped video copies of the producer's finished work, depositing of payments, etc.) is included in the deal. It's a LOT of work!

Recall, the former MP3.com (EYME) licensing deal was that they get 40% of the fees, and you send them your CD's. Here, we don't require that you send any CD's...our advanced preview and purchase system allows Film/TV and Radio producers to get your track, and a signed license the same day...and that's another Major selling point to them, which will help you! You can imagine why media producers don't want to deal with unheard-of individuals...they do not want to deal with the wait time!

If you are part of a respected catalog where the word of mouth is "Quality" "Classines", "high-energy" and "Convenience", then you could achieve these numbers, especially as our site is rolled out to thousands of media buyers in the upcoming months.

Our plan is simple: We will send Press Releases to journals like Film Music Magazine, Daily Variety (the major Hollywood insider journal) and other places, as well as pursuing top placements in Yahoo, Looksmart, Google etc. under "production music" and other relevant search terms (you may suggest some strategic magazines & search terms to advertise under). The initial cost of advertising is expected to be approximately $20,000, not to mention over $550,000 it cost to build out the search engine up to this point (just so you know your small fee does not even begin to cover the projected expenses for launching this group venture...we aim to recoup strictly by licenses sold).

This licensing group originally started with just the founder, Arthur Sulit's own set of 80+ recordings, ranging from classical to hard rock, alternative and pop. That catalog was one of the top licensing successes from the former mp3.com, gaining clients from independent film festivals, to national hotel chains like Starwood, and Australian Cable TV, as well as a great many private licensees for wedding videos or company birthday parties. But still, many Film/TV producers wanted more variety, so they can have a reliable "resource" to return to for sound tracks any time into the future. Art could not supply that much variety merely on his own.

At the same time, many other individual artists were having great difficulty and expense trying to market their own small catalog for licensing, with poor success (even though these were great tracks!). Typically, their tracks were only in one genre, whereas media producers needed catalogs with many genres. The idea floated around that we artists can join our resources, join our catalogs, into a centralized world-class search engine, to create a much larger catalog which sells.

In addition, our combined money can allow us to reach far, far more Film/TV and Radio producers than if we each just tried to go at it alone. In media producer's eyes, (who often have to deal with many unreliable artists who don't deliver), "corporate trust" is an issue. There is more "credibility" as a group than as an unheard-of artist. The same principles which founded ASCAP and BMI -- group power -- have recently formed MLG. Thus, the MuSeeks Licensing Group (MLG) was born.

We are, in effect, pooling our resources, at just $35 each, for the ability to reach more licensing customers. If you join now, then you are joining your resources with other immense talents so that we as a group can get our "better quality" works represented. Indeed there are a few of you out there with great, licensable tracks for TV & film. But it just won't happen if you just try to plug songs by yourself. Nor can you rely on the former mp3.com's licensing program, which was a disappointment for many of us because there were too many members, too little quality, poor searchability, and we were never "found". Here, at MLG, our numbers are fewer, but quality is higher--and that's what counts to media producers, who don't have time to be swamped with junk tracks.

Success is only through a Personal approach, directly with the people producing shows. So the $35 deal enables real humans to do significant legwork for you, so you can concentrate on what you do best--make great music! I think you had better join now.

TESTIMONIALS: "Appreciate your timely response for our project!"- Laura B.,-Sports Illustrated, NY "Your track, 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' far exceeded what we needed for our St. Regis Hotels website--classy!"-Ron M. -Starwood Hotels, NY