Muze
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Muze is a provider of digital media management tools that connect people to art, education, and entertainment. Founded in 1991, Muze has developed a comprehensive database of rich descriptive data about popular media, including music, film and video, books, and video games. This data stretches back over 50 years, and includes top-line commercial data, as well as deep-level editorial data, images, sound files, and many other types of data and metadata.
Muze licenses these databases to retailers and other business concerns for use in commerce, enabling them to conduct retail trade in both physical and digital media. In 2006, Muze acquired certain assets of Loudeye Corporation, including a digital media management technology platform and millions of licensed downloadable music tracks. Muze then combined their existing databases with these media management tools, providing a single source for both information about media and the actual media itself, enabling their clients to more easily promote and sell digital entertainment media.[1]
Muze is privately-held (the company was acquired in May of 2005 by Enterprise Partners) and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Seattle and London. Their databases and technologies are in use by such companies as Amazon.com, eBay, WalMart, 02 Music, and hundreds of others around the globe.
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- ^ Muze gets creative with Net music business model, Courtney Macavinta, CNET News.com, (November 30, 1999).
