MusicNet and Napster collaborates for the UK market

Digital music service providers MusicNet and Napster are collaborating together and have signed on a three-year deal. This deal is to pay songwriters and music publishers for digital download in the UK market.

This deal would see composers, writers and music publishers getting paid 8 percent of gross revenue, excluding VAT whenever their music is sold through the services offered by MusicNet and Napster.

The deal also has received the approval of MCPS-PRS Alliance, which represent the composers, songwriters and music publishers. They are already in a similar arrangement with Apple’s iTunes and mobile operators Vodafone, O2, France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile.

MusicNet is in the business of providing technology to run services for other brand name digital music providers.