It seems as if the german sister of the IFPI finally makes life easier for online music stores.
The new contract foresees that for each music title a fee of 6 to 9 cents will be payable.
Also customers may profit from this contract as the preview snippets may now be 90
seconds in length instead of 30 seconds.

After 8 years of struggling agreement rounds, the Bitkom and the GEMA finally seem to have found a good way to satisfy their needs and also customers’ needs…

Let’s see how long this will last until the GEMA will state new requirements against the customers…