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Internet podcasters have to pay up
The Dutch collecting organisation BUMA/STEMRA offers podcasters on internet a license agreement for legal music and spoken words fragments. BUMA/STEMRA offers amateurs an open agreement for 35 euro a month, regardless the amount of programs or songs, and professionals will pay 85 euro a month and 13 per cent of the turn-over.
Lost Boys makes a small profit
Web bureau LB Icons, better known as Lost Boys (amongst other from the Grand Prix Formula 1 races), has turned its loss position over the first half year from a loss of 2,6 million euro into a handsome profit of 800.000 euro. Great Britain and Germany with 25 percent of the turn-over each, are the most important markets; the Benelux follows with 21 percent.
Unheard Beethoven
Since 1997 the Dutch programmer Willem Holsbergen and music lover Mark Zimmer collect copies of original but never recorded music of Beethoven. They are hunting for written fragments and reconstruct the music in such a way that it can be played again. So far Holsbergen and Zimmer have published 230 music parts.
Pageviews of top 15 Dutch sites
(X miljoen in June en in May 2005)
1. Hotmail (MSN): 330 (186)
2. Nu 265 (196) – news site
3. Startpagina (Ilse Media): 231 (216) – homepage directory
4. Messenger 217 (143)
5. Clubs 163 (155)
6. Zylom: 161 (133) – games
7. Funda 148 (135) – real estate
8. De Telegraaf 112 (98) - newspaper
9. Teletekst 101 – broadcasting news service
10. Telefoongids 99 – telephone directory
11. Web-log.nl 55 – Dutch language weblogs
12. Planet 49 (45) – major ISP
13. Wanadoo: 48 – major ISP
14. MSN 48 (37)
15. RTL 44 (49) - television
Source: STIR, July 2005
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