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A New Startup Aims to Solve Widespread Hassles in Licensing Derivative Works
ClearBeats aims to help remixes, interpolations, mashups and alternate versions become properly licensed tracks.
Nick Ditri ’s career as a dance music producer got a big boost when Tiesto used a 2013 bootleg remix of Avicii ’s “Silhouettes” by his duo, Disco Fries. He is a managing partner of ClearBeats, a startup that enables derivative works — remixes, interpolations, mashups and alternate versions — to become properly licensed tracks. Digital platforms are awash in unauthorized derivative works because “it’s the easiest way to get your foot in the door, especially in dance music and in hip hop,” says Ditri.
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