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Jamendo is a music website and an open community of independent artists and music lovers. It bills itself as "the world's largest digital service for free music".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Jamendo Press Kit )〕 Jamendo was origionally introduced as a service for releasing music under the Creative Commons licenses. As of October, 2015, Jamendo no longer advertizes its music as Creative Commons but rather free to play and download for personal use. The goal of Jamendo is to be the link between artists who want to share their music and audiences around the world, both private and professional.〔 At the center of Jamendo is an economic model that grants free music downloads for web users, while at the same time providing revenue opportunities for artists through commercial uses, via the music licensing platform Jamendo Licensing which sells licenses for music synchronization and background music.〔 Based in Luxembourg, the website has a community of over 2 million members. At the end of 2013, the catalog offered over 400,000 tracks by 30,000 artists from 150 countries. As of January 2015, the Jamendo homepage shows a count of 460,000 tracks available, and a total of 250+ million downloads since the launch of the platform. The site is available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Polish. The name "Jamendo" is derived from a fusion of two musical terms: "jam session" and "crescendo".〔 == History == Jamendo S.A., originally created under the name Peermajor SARL in 2004, was launched in January 2005. It was funded in June 2007 by Mangrove Capital Partners, Skype's investors. Starting in January 2007, Jamendo tested an advertising revenue sharing program which was later dropped. In December 2007, the second version of the website was launched, offering a new design and new functionalities.〔 〕 On June 18, 2008 the platform passed the 10,000 albums milestone. At the end of 2008, Jamendo launched Jamendo PRO, a music licensing platform for commercial use, making Jamendo music available for the synchronization of audiovisual projects (film, TV, advertising, web & corporate videos, video games, apps, etc.) and as background music for public places (stores, restaurants, hotels, etc.). June 2009 saw the release of Jamendo's first mobile applications for Android and iOS. That same month, Jamendo's co-founder and CTO Sylvain Zimmer received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Luxembourg. In December 2009, a partnership was made with Deezer, giving Jamendo artists the opportunity to release their music on Deezer as well. Jamendo faced financial difficulties in early 2010 and started looking for investors. Stability returned when MusicMatic, a Brussels-based company specialized in music solutions for businesses and public places, entered Jamendo's capital. In August 2011, Jamendo obtained the "PUR" label from French authority HADOPI, which was renewed the following year. On April 24, 2012, the third version of the website was launched. It offered a new design, new functionalities allowing for more artists promotion, ten new genre-specific radio channels, etc. On December 8, 2014, Jamendo PRO turned into Jamendo Licensing,〔Jamendo Licensing, available at (licensing.jamendo.com )〕 showing an entirely reshaped version of their commercial service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jamendo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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