Facebook’s newest music deal opens door to massive UMG library | Droolin Dog dot Net

A scant couple of weeks after Facebook revealed its in-house music library for budding content creators, the social media site has announced a partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), a conglomerate that owns the souls of hundreds of popular performing musicians. According to UMG, the company will license its music catalogs for “video and other social experiences across Facebook, Instagram and Oculus.” I’m not sure what “other social experiences” could mean, but the inclusion of Oculus makes me wonder if UMG’s music will be available to VR game developers. UMG is one of the big three record companies which dominate… This story continues at The Next Web Or just read more coverage about: Facebook Source: https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2017/12/21/facebooks-newest-music-deal-opens-door-to-massive-umg-library/ Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #IndieBrew, IndieBrew, #MusicNews

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