After partnering with Warner last year, pre-cleared music for games platform STYNGR inks licensing deal with ICE Services

Pan-European Licensing Center, STONE Services, entered into an agreement with game and metadata startup STYNGR that covers ICE’s reporting usage across multiple territories.

According to a statement, the partnership will see STYNGR, a pre-cleaned music delivery platform for games and metaverse, licensing ICE Core’s musical repertoire that players can enjoy. can be used in online games.

The STYNGR platform gives players the option to choose in-game music channels and event-driven soundtracks that they can personalize to their preferred in-game experience.

Game developers are also supported by the STYNGR SDK (Software Development Kit), which allows them to implement in-game monetization options.

Last year, STYNGR cooperate with Warner Music CorporationThe latter company provides game developers with access to pre-licensed tracks from sections of its music catalog.

Through the latest alliance between ICE and STYNGR, ICE Core members will begin receiving royalties from new apps developed by game developers through STYNGR. This provides a new revenue stream for ICE Core members, the company said.

ICE claims to represent more than 330,000 copyright holders and has so far processed “trillions of music uses” from music streaming services and has so far paid out more than 3 billion euros to owners. Copyright as of March 2016.

ICE, based in the UK, Germany and Sweden, says its ICE Core license includes reporting by collectors such as PRSSTIM, gemstoneIMRO, body mass indexSabam, AKM and independent publishers harmony, songtrust And peerICE said.

“Licensing a large and unique set of musical repertoire represented by ICE Core Societies and Publishers is a fantastic opportunity and we are delighted to be making this deal.”

Alex Tarrand, STYNGRO

ICE says its copyright database contains more than 48 million musical works.

“Licensing a large and unique set of musical repertoire represented by ICE Core Societies and Publishers is a fantastic opportunity and we are delighted to have achieved it,” said Alex Tarrand, co-founder of STYNGR. this agreement.

“STYNGR is a bridge for game developers, allowing them to easily incorporate music into all their experiences. Being able to cover a lot of important work on a large multi-territorial basis is a boost to our service.”

The partnership with a metaverse company comes as ICE looks for new ways to maximize the revenue of copyright holders.

“As the next generation of web apps begins to materialize, we continually evaluate new services, learn their models, and support innovation with agreements that also reflect the value of make music,” said ICE Vice President of Licensing, Tim Rawlinson.

“We are delighted to be able to partner with STYNGR to provide musicians with new, growing sources of income as new opportunities for people to experience music emerge.”

Tim Rawlinson, ICE SERVICES

“We are delighted to be able to partner with STYNGR to provide musicians with new, growing sources of income as new opportunities for people to experience music emerge.”

In addition to its partnership with ICE, STYNGR also announced that musicians and composers can now sign up directly for access to the STYNGR Creator Fund, which aims to enhance a bespoke music experience for artists. game developer and metaverse.

Composition camps will be launched this year, STYNGR said.

ICE, formed by three collector associations — PRS for Music (UK), STIM (Sweden) and GEMA (Germany) — has reached similar multi-territory licensing agreements with Facebook, TikTok and the American opponent Triller.

In 2020, ICE show an online self-service tool called licensor allowing smaller streaming music services with multi-territory coverage to use the ICE Core repertoire.

In December, the Austrian collectors association AKM (together with its subsidiary austro mechana), join ICE Core’s licensing agent for online music services.Global Music Business