San Francisco, CA ­-(Jan. 17, 2001 ) Digidesign, a division of Avid and creator of ProTools, a suite of state-of-the-art audio editing solutions for the video, film, and music industries, today announced the signing of a private label Agreement with LicenseMusic.com (www.licensemusic.com) for its new DigiProNet (www.digipronet.com) website.

This arrangement will allow Digidesign to offer its users online access to the leading online music catalog for B2B professional licensing use. LicenseMusic.com designed its private label product for businesses like DigiProNet that want to offer their website visitors an online music licensing solution. Through this arrangement, Digidesign will be able to present LicenseMusic.com's diverse catalog of 50,000 tracks to their site visitors for instant searching, previewing, pricing and licensing.

"LicenseMusic.com offers a professional music licensing service designed to speed production cycles for post and new media projects," says Heidi Elgaard, Digidesign.

"Digidesign is well-known as the global leader in audio editing software tools for the video, film, music, and interactive industries," stated LicenseMusic.com Founder, President and CEO, Gerd Leonhard. "This partnership represents a unique opportunity for us to expose Digidesign's professional community to LicenseMusic.com's comprehensive online music licensing service. Now, DigiProNet's users will have instant, legal and affordable access to the best and easiest music licensing system available on the Web, with content that covers all styles and genres and very competitive licensing fees. This is a truly a win-win deal and a very powerful marriage of technology and content."

About: LicenseMusic.com is the only Internet site to both license and deliver music online specifically for the audio-visual production industries. The site represents the catalogs of over 200 record labels and music publishers such as Dreamworks Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Publishing, Arc Music Group, Harmonia Mundi, Chesky, Milan Entertainment, Warlock and KnitMedia, 10 production music libraries including Aircraft, JRT Music and Valentino, as well as a growing library of music from unsigned artists. LicenseMusic.com has partnerships with Getty Images, Avid Technology Inc., Soundelux Entertainment Group, and Playboy Entertainment Group. The LicenseMusic.com collection contains more than 50,000 pre-cleared online tracks with access to over one million tracks through its network of providers.

About: Avid Technology, Inc. is an industry-leading provider of digital media creation and distribution solutions. From its industry revolutionizing non-linear editing and finishing solutions, to its standard-setting audio and animation tools and high performance technology for delivering TV-quality video over the Internet, Avid gives customers the power to communicate to multiple audiences with creativity and ease. Avid solutions, which span a wide range of markets and price points, are used for special effects, video, audio, film, television, broadcast news, corporate communications, music, the Internet and games. Projects using Avid products have been honored with Oscar, Emmy and Grammy awards, as well as a host of other industry awards. Avid markets and sells its products globally, and maintains corporate headquarters in Tewksbury, MA. For product information, visit the Avid Web site at www.avid.com. For Avid community and services visit www.avidpronet.com.

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