DIC Entertainment Launches New Online Production Music Business

BURBANK, March 26: DIC
Music, a subsidiary of DIC Entertainment, is launching www.cuetunes.com, a new
website that aims to offer affordable, royalty-free production music to
television and film studios.

DIC hopes that the new
venture will allow film and television professionals, independent film
producers, instructors and/or students to purchase quality, affordable
production music for all media productions. This includes station themes, news
and commercial music, animation, live action, home video, webisodes, demo
reels, video games, student projects and temp tracks.

The website utilizes a
search-and-delivery system that leverages Counterpoint Systems’ MusicSource
Online software and is customized according to the specifications of the
cuetunes.com staff. Users will be able to search for and select professional
music cues by keywords or a broad range of genres, styles and instrumentations
at a one-time fee for both the publishing and master recording rights. Selected
music tracks may be managed by project, viewed by associates and purchased in
MP3 and/or WAV formats for $21.95 (10 seconds or less) or $39.95 (greater than
10 seconds) per track through PayPal. Through the Preferred Patron Program,
approved registered users have the option to download and evaluate selected
tracks for up to 14 days before buying.

“DIC owns literally
thousands of music cues, and cuetunes.com provides a vehicle to monetize the
valuable asset,” commented Deb Clark, the VP of royalty and music publishing
administration for DIC. “One of our most important goals is to make the user’s
experience as simple and enjoyable as possible by providing myriad searchable song
criteria, user-friendly customer service support and through our Preferred
Patron Program.”

—By Irene Lew