Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies, new weapon to quash internet piracy

Spanish start-up BMAT has developed software that can track live performances and reinterpretations of copyrighted works on or off the Internet. Targeted clients include YouTube and collection agencies the world over

Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies, new weapon to quash internet piracy

Spanish start-up BMAT has developed software that can track live performances and reinterpretations of copyrighted works on or off the Internet. Targeted clients include YouTube and collection agencies the world over.

BMAT, Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies, won two prizes in June. Recently It won first prize in a contest between 28 start-ups from around the world at a conference called ‘HIT Barcelona Innovation Summit’ winning 50,000 euros in prize money and office space. It went on to receive a national prize from the Spanish government.

Policing content on the Net is now mandatory as content owners demand to be paid royalties on copyrighted material posted on sites like YouTube.

YouTube has developed its own software and uses technology from a U.S. company called Audible Magic to police and manage copyrighted material. It now has 100,000 hours of reference material in its system and uses its Content ID software to help some 600 partners collect revenues from copyrighted audio or video material. The program uses an "acoustic fingerprint" to scrutinise content. The fingerprints are matched against the fingerprints of copyrighted musical works in a database.

Pedro Cano, the 34-year-old chief technology officer of BMAT, said "Our technology does not look at a particular recordings but at the inherent music," says Cano. "This allows collection agencies to track live performances, interpretations and covers on the Internet."



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