Legitmix
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| Headquarters |
Ottawa, Canada Brooklyn, New York |
|---|---|
| Key people |
Omid McDonald, CEO[1] Booker Sim, CMO[1] Gerry Burtenshaw, CTO |
| Industry | Music technology |
| Website |
www |
| Launched | 2011 |
Legitmix is a Canadian company that offers services to artists who create remixes.[2][3] The company has offices in Ottawa, Canada and Brooklyn, New York.[4][5] and launched its product in 2011,[1][3]
Legitmix sells a file that rebuilds a remixed song on a user's hard drive using the listener's copies of the sampled tracks.[3][6] Remixers receive 70% of the price of their Legitmix files,[4][7] while copyright holders get paid for the purchase of the original tracks used in the remix.[2] Music files used to construct remixes must be exact matches to the ones legally sold through Legitmix.[6] Because listeners are required to purchase or already own the original tracks used in a remix, the recreated remix might be several times more expensive than the cost of an individual song.[7][8]
The Hood Internet and El-P have used the product.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "The coolest NYC companies: music and tech start-up Legitmix". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- 1 2 "Can Legitmix Solve Remix Copyright for DJs + Producers?". DJTechTools. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- 1 2 3 "Legitmix Ends the Music Sampling Deadlock". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- 1 2 3 "Legitmix Founder Omid McDonald Explains His Plan to Make Sample-Based Music Perfectly Legal, Equitable (Q&A)". Billboard Biz. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- ↑ "Legitmix: Solving The Sampling Issue". DJZ. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
- 1 2 "Interactive technology gets a spotlight at North by Northeast". Toronto Star. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- 1 2 "These songs cost upwards of $14 apiece, and people are actually paying". Quartz. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ "Legitmix finds a legal way to sell remixes, but they're not always cheap". The Verge. Retrieved 2013-10-10.