SpiralFrog Signs Licensing Agreement With Sony/ATV Music Publishing

NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SpiralFrog) - SpiralFrog, Inc., (www.spiralfrog.com) the free ad-supported Web-based music experience, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, one of the world's leading music publishers, today announced a licensing agreement to make one of the world's premier collections of musical compositions available on the SpiralFrog Web site.

Signing rights from music publishers is a critical element in SpiralFrog's mission to make ad-supported music downloading available on a free and legal basis. Licensing sound recordings and music videos requires more than obtaining rights from the recording artists and record labels who own the masters. The writers and composers of the songs must also be compensated, and music publishers license these underlying compositions.

'Sony/ATV is aggressively moving to create new digital revenue streams for our song writers,' said Martin N. Bandier, chairman and CEO, Sony/ATV Music Publishing. 'SpiralFrog has created a new opportunity to monetize an untapped market by offering a compelling alternative to illicit file-sharing sites.'

'The Sony/ATV music catalog is world class, as it combines the world's hottest new songs with some of the best evergreen classics of all time,' said Joe Mohen, chairman and founder of SpiralFrog. 'We're especially excited to work with Sony/ATV as they continue to grow their impressive roster of songwriters through strategic acquisitions such as the recent purchase of Famous Music.'

SpiralFrog provides an integrated entertainment experience for users, with an emphasis on discovering new music and accessing a wide variety of content about the artists they are passionate about. Currently, SpiralFrog is live in the U.S. and Canada, offering more than 800,000 songs for downloading and 3,500 music videos for viewing and/or downloading.