Affiliate portal, musicurry.com gets legal sanction to play Indian music

August 17, 2000, Mumbai - Indiainfo.com , India's premier portal network, announced today that musicurry.com, its affiliate portal has become the only portal in India and Internationally to obtain a license to host and play Indian music online.

The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) and Phonographic Performance Ltd. (P.P.L) wings of the Indian Music Industry (IMI) have granted musicurry.com this first of its kind license to legally host a wide variety of music ranging from golden oldies to the very latest releases in the Indian music world.

"The musicurry.com team including myself, being artists, feel strongly about artist welfare and respect artist copyrights. This was always foremost on our mind and we are happy that after the IPRS license we have also been able to get the PPL license which is representative of the companies' copyrights. We will now be working closely with various companies and artists to help them maximize the benefits of the Internet" said Mandar Agashe, musicurry.com

"This is truly a breakthrough in the world of online music. The license not only gives Indiainfo.com another feather in its cap but also reinforces our commitment to our loyal Internet audience. Indiainfo.com is committed to discipline on the Internet regarding copyright issues and this license reiterates our focus," said Sunil Rajshekhar, President, Content & Ad Network, Indiainfo.com.

Musicurry.com is India's first online web radio. The site promotes all forms of Indian music ranging from Indipop to film music and regional music. Musicurry.com was also the first Indian portal to launch an online label as well as an online tutor (Online Guruji) for budding musicians. The site plans, in the near future to diversify into International Rock music, which is likely to further enhance its popularity.

The site, musicurry.com was acquired by Indiainfo.com in April this year and adds to the already impressive list of Indiainfo.com affiliate portals.

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Notes to the Editor:

India's premier portal, Indiainfo.com offers services that include search engines, directories, multi-linguistic content, community products such as e-mail, chat, message boards, and e-commerce products. Affiliate sites, accessible through the flagship Indiainfo.com portal, include careerindia.com, thatscricket.com, esharebazaar.com, musicurry.com, musicracks.com, and evesindia.com.

Indiainfo.com also offers unique services that include comprehensive personalization of all content on the site, the option for a business to list their products online at 'The Mall', online purchase of an exhaustive range of office stationery through Office Racks, and also extensive content in various Indian languages through their multi-linguistic portals.

Indiainfo.com is a comprehensive internet solution and service provider, offering a portal network, advertising network, e-commerce products addressing both B2B and B2C markets, and internet services including hosting, connectivity and development services. Indiainfo.com currently employs 800 people in both India and the US, including Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, New Jersey and New York.

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