Releases - STIM

Just in time for ABBA’s 40th anniversary, former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, sensationally release a new song titled Merry Christmas My Friend.
Merry Christmas My Friend is performed by the staff of Benny Andersson’s exclusive hotel in central Stockholm, Rival, and was initiated by its human resources department. The video can be viewed on the hotels website www.rival.se    

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STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights Society, is the first rights organisation in Sweden to offers its members the opportunity to sign a so-called Creative Commons licence (CC) for a trial two-year period. The licence enables creators to release individual works for non-commercial use.
“STIM is a listening, modern and solution-oriented organisation,” says Ingrid Herrström, head of STIM’s member services. “We’ve...

STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights Society, has taken a major step when it comes to creating a new licensing landscape for Europe, by entering into a pan-EEA licensing deal with Nokia for its Comes With Music service.
The agreement with Nokia was reached in cooperation with STIM’s Nordic counterparts in Finland (TEOSTO) and Norway (TONO). The much heralded Comes With Music service offers customers unlimited...

Almost nine out of ten music users on the Internet - 86.2 percent - have expressed a willingness to pay for a voluntary subscription legally entitling them to file share music. The strongest willingness to pay for a legal file sharing subscription exist among the biggest collectors of music, i.e. those who have 5,000 or more songs in their digital music collection. This finding emerges from a recent survey conducted...

Tomas Ericsson has been appointed as Executive Director of International Markets and Media at STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights Society. Tomas will be in charge of all music licensing for TV and radio use, including all online licensing.
A high proportion of total revenue collected by STIM today is generated by the media and online sector. With new technology and creative areas of use for music, these markets...