Royalty Free Music website wins E-Commerce Awards 2003 final

Royalty Free Music website www.royalty-free.tv has been awarded first prize in the E-Commerce Awards 2003 final for the South West region e-business startup category.

Composers Liz Radford and Gavin Courtie have just been announced as winners in the national E-Commerce Awards 2003 for the South West region. Trading under the name "Royalty-Free.tv" their Poole (UK) based business has received this prestigious award for the success of their website www.royalty-free.tv. Writing music for Televison programmes and multimedia producers, their website http://www.royalty-free.tv has opened up new markets for them internationally, particularly in America.
Owner/Partner Gavin Courtie said:
Winning this award is very exciting for us, particularly as the competition was so strong. Its great to be writing music here in Poole and selling it to North America -- we couldnt do it without the Internet."

Owner/Partner Liz Radford said:
A lot of the music industry is based in and around London and sometimes its hard to get recognised being based in Dorset. This award is a validation of the quality of our product."

The 2003 national E-Commerce Awards are run by UK online for business, a partnership between Industry and Government, which promotes the use of information and communication technologies to small companies, and by InterForum, a not for profit membership organisation that helps British businesses to trade electronically. In the five years of the Awards this year's response has been the biggest ever with 2,945 organisations entering.