MédiasActu chooses Info2clear for the commercialisation of copyrights on its online publications

Info2clear, the Pan-European company offering solutions for the digital management of intellectual property, today announces a partnership with the French company MédiasActu. MédiasActu will use the Info2clear solution to enable customers to easily obtain the reproduction rights of their online publications.

MédiasActu as a company, specialises in the creation of online content. Intended for media and communication professionals, RadioActu.com is the premier information-site for the French-language radio. This website has activities in France, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium. The offer of MédiasActu also includes MusicActu.com, a site with musical current events information intended for the general public.

Targeted at the B2B market, Info2clear provides a solution for companies for whom the creation, distribution and selling of content is a source of revenue.
Among the various services proposed by Info2clear, MédiasActu has selected get-a-copy, the infrastructure for online management of reproduction rights.
Get-a-copy will manage the digital reproduction rights of all the content published on the websites www.radioactu.com, www.radioactu.ca, www.radioactu.ch, www.radioactu.be and www.musicactu.com. This service will allow the readers of these sites to easily obtain the legitimate right to reproduce the content for their own purposes.

By clicking on the 'get-a-copy icon attached to the article, the readers are redirected to the Info2clear site where they can select an option to suit their needs and pay electronically the copyright fees; after that, they receive the article together with the 'cleared icon. This icon links to an online authentication certificate which makes it possible to check that the article has, indeed, been legitimately reproduced with the permission of its owner. Additionally, Info2clear preserves the original document, time-stamped and registered as a legal proof of ownership, which makes it possible to check if it undergoes any modification or abuse.

In its capacity as content provider, MédiasActu constitutes for us a great reference on the French market. By using get-a-copy, MédiasActu will not only protect its content and authors but will also generate additional revenues by these new transactions", declares Anthony Belpaire CEO Info2clear.

The re-use of content is a current problem for many users", specifies Nicolas Chagny, CEO MédiasActu. "Thanks to get-a-copy our readers can from now on re-use our content with a user licence, while preserving a very simple procedure."

Contact:

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Info2clear
Anthony Belpaire, Tel.: +32 2 529 59 07, Fax: +32 2 706 53 82, Mobile: +32 477 59 54 26, anthony.belpaire@info2clear.com
PR contact: Sigrid Debusschere, sigrid.debusschere@info2clear.com

MédiasActu
Nicolas Chagny, Tel.: +33 1 55 25 50 80, Fax: +33.1.43.67.07.67, nicolas.chagny@mediasactu.com or presse@mediasactu.fr

About Info2clear, www.info2clear.com
Info2clear was founded in April 1998. The team is based mostly in Brussels with offices in the Netherlands, UK, France and Spain. Info2clear is a well-capitalized company. Among the shareholders are ABN Amro Capital and Belgacom.
Info2clear helps Media customers to select the approach to digitally distribute content, which is best suited to their business models, and then builds the necessary infrastructure. Among Info2clears Media customers are Uitgeversbedrijf Tijd, De Standaard, Roularta Media Group, Mediargus, Emerce, Wegener Group and Kanaal Z.
For Business customers Info2clear, via its subsidiary SecureAttachment (www.secureattachment.com), provides the tool for secure distribution of confidential documents as e-mail attachments. Among Info2clears Business customers are Allen Overy, Bird & Bird, Adobe Systems Inc., EEBIC, IPM-NET and Dictao.

About MédiasActu, www.mediasactu.fr
Created in June 2000, MédiasActu specialises in the creation of content as the publisher of RadioActu.com and MusicActu.com.
Present in France, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium, RadioActu.com, a B2B site, is today the premier information-site for the French-language radio and publishes daily a bulletin on topical issues for the radio industry as well as many professional services, of these the "Guide Pro".
MusicActu.com, a site B2C, specialises in the music industry news. In addition to its activity as publisher of Internet sites, MédiasActu is also a content agency: private label, tailor-made content, rewriting, and third party editing, in all fields (media, culture, sport, general information, company communication).
MédiasActu counts among its customers Vizzavi, France Telecom, TV-Radio.com and the group Banks Popular. Member of the GESTE (Group of editors of online services), MédiasActu is a member of the Les Argonautes" group.