Apple service iTunes Match, which allows users for $ 25 music without the permission of rights holders is downloaded to be able to convert in “legal music” release in the Netherlands. Apple has signed an agreement.
The Dutch collecting society Buma/Stemra has reached an agreement with Apple on payments for the service, as Buma itself known. This is Apple, according to the auteursrechtenorgansatie ready to iTunes Match in the Netherlands to introduce; according to the organization, have Apple only on the ‘live button’ to press. Buma/Stemra represents only music writers was founded and publishers.
Match is a web-based service for music. Apple scans for $ 25 per year for the music collection of the user. A Dutch price in euros is not yet published. All found songs are not uploaded but available to stream from the servers of Apple. The songs can then be listened to through an internet connection on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. That applies not only to purchases from iTunes, but also for music without the permission of rights holders is downloaded. Apple began last autumn with iTunes Match in the United States. It is unclear when iTunes Match in the Netherlands live set.
