MusiK1 has built an alliance with the following companies and organization that support the independent artist and label community.

Feel free to read up on each allies' blurb, as well as visiting their website by clicking on their respective logo.

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Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 330,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members. ASCAP has representation arrangements with over 90 music rights organizations such that the ASCAP repertory is represented in nearly every country around the world. ASCAP protects the rights of its members and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed performances. ASCAP is the only American Performing Rights Organization owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.

Blogger & Podcaster Magazine is a monthly business magazine written for serious bloggers and podcasters. Every issue contains the news, analysis, tips, technology and advice to help bloggers and podcaster get rich and famous.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is an American performing right organization that represents more than 375,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 6.5 million works. BMI has represented the most popular and beloved music from around the world for over 68 years. The non-profit-making U.S. corporation collects license fees from businesses that use music, and then distributes more than 88% of those fees as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.

Clear Channel Radio is a leading radio company focused on serving local communities across the U.S. with more than 110 million listeners choosing Clear Channel Radio programming each week. The company's content can be heard on AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, on the Internet, via iPods and cell phones and used via navigation systems from BMW, Volvo, TomTom, Garmin and others. The company's operations include radio broadcasting, syndication and independent media representation. Clear Channel Radio is a division of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE:CCU), a leading global media and entertainment company.

Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved".

Linux Labs International is a hybrid engineering firm specializing in technologies that expand the field of high performance supercomputing.

Our development skills have been utilized to develop the HPC solution for benchmarking a major manufacturer's silicon chips, as well as the payload calculations for mission critical military applications. The Linux Labs clustered supercomputing solutions allow their online clients to become the fastest most cost efficient streaming and content delivery providers on the Internet.

Linux Labs provides a complete turnkey data center solution for clients who do not maintain their own data centers. This allows those clients to receive the benefits of a data center without the exorbitant expense of managing it themselves. From climate control to redundant bandwidth and backup services, Linux Labs provides all the requirements for supercomputing in a local or distributed environment.

Mediaguide monitors music and advertising on over 2,700 college, non-commercial and commercial radio stations in 150 US markets; and over 3,500 internet stations in real-time, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We use this data & insight to provide business insight to record labels, broadcasters and advertisers; and to support a music discovery and advertising network that connects radio to digital outlets & mobile devices.

The National Club Industry Association of America (NCIAA) is the official advocate and trade organization of Professionals in the Nightlife & Club Industry since 1989. We are the largest membership Association in the Music Industry (125,000+) and the only recognized Professional Club DJ Licensing Bureau in the world.

The NCIAA broadened its mandate from restoring a favorable public image of nightclubs, to advocating for strong protection of businesses and providing leadership in meeting new industry challenges. The NCIAA provides discounts, services, networking and development opportunities, thus enabling professionals to increase revenues and profits through innovative management and marketing programs.

Based out of the United Kingdom, Overplay was created in May 2003 by a small, but dedicated, group of music lovers to support the multitude of exciting, fresh and fascinating musicians within the indie artist community. With the vast majority of them unsigned, unseen and unheard, Overplay's goal is to provide a platform for unsigned and emerging artists, giving them the tools and direction to help them on their musical journey. It doesn't matter if they're a serious career-musician looking for a record deal, or if they're taking their first steps into the music scene.

The Play MPE System is a secure, fast and cost-effective method of digitally delivering music and music videos to radio, reviewers, media, industry VIPs or internal staff. The system provides ease of use while maintaining a high level of security. Registered industry professionals are able to receive promotional or pre-released audio singles, music videos or albums directly from the content owner as broadcast-quality digital audio and video files. The Play MPE System currently supports PC and Mac, and is available in both English and Spanish languages.

Radio Mall is a 22-year old company that helps others reach America's Radio and TV stations. They offer extensive databases of commercial and noncommercial radio stations including postal and email addresses, format (genre) type, phone, fax, market size, etc. They also do group mailings and email blasts to radio stations.

RadioWave is the first and only airplay monitoring system designed specifically for radio stations streaming over the Internet, and is the leading information provider on music played over streaming broadcasts. RadioWave uses custom-built monitoring technology that provides on-the-air music detection services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It is currently compatible with all major streaming and software providers including Live 365, Shoutcast and AudioRealm. RadioWave captures and records more than 4,000,000 titles each week, from more than 4,800 monitored Internet broadcasts in several markets, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia. RadioWave is the world's largest airplay monitoring and information service, boasting a panel nearly twice that of its terrestrial counterparts.

SoundExchange is an independent, nonprofit performance rights organization that is designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for featured recording artists and sound recording copyright owners (usually a record label) when their sound recordings are performed by digital cable and satellite television music services and internet and satellite radio services (such as XM and Sirius). SoundExchange currently represents over 3,500 record labels and over 31,000 featured artists. Its members include both signed and unsigned recording artists; small, medium and large independent record companies; and major label groups and artist-owned labels. You can be a member of both SoundExchange and ASCAP/BMI/SESAC as they represent two different copyrights (sound recording vs. songwriting). Go to www.soundexchange.com or call them at 202.640.5858 and register with them today!

Small Webcaster Community Initiative, established in May 2003, is an emerging industry trade association devoted to promoting and protecting independent online music radio. We encourage our members to respect the rights of copyright holders. Before undertaking any online public performance within the United States, our members observe all compulsory license requirements pertaining to the use of both musical compositions and sound recordings.

TrakHeadz.com is a web based music promotion and distribution system that allows independent record labels and recording artists to get their songs into the hands of professional club and radio DJs all over the world! While the Internet is filled with thousands of web sites that give independent artists a way to sell, distribute, and even promote their music online, TrakHeadz.Com is the first website to provide an effective way for recording artists to promote their music offline, as its unique system automatically distributes track titles of recording artists to professional DJs who review them, give feed back on them, and download the best ones to play.