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Fingerprinting technology launched at ARD and ZDF

The public broadcasting companies have decided to use a service provider to verify the music use in their programmes by way of fingerprinting and therefore to continue to improve the quality of their broadcast usage reports from 2019 on. At GVL, we welcome this technological enhancement in terms of our members.
What does this mean for you as a producer of sound recordings?

In order to enable this improvement, the service provider, BMAT, requires your repertoire data.

As far as the data is being made available by MPN/Phononet and you are a customer there, Phononet will require your permission to pass your data on. Detailed information on this matter can be accessed at: https://www.phononet.de/bemusterung-bmat-ueber-das-mpn/. The Phononet MPN Team is also happy to assist you with your queries, you can call them on +49 40 55493722 or e-mail them at musik-promotion@phononet.de.

Alternatively, you can also directly submit your data to BMAT. For further information, please contact the BMAT team at +34 93 4869407 or via e-mail at uploadmusic@bmat.com or hello@bmat.com.