Many readers have read that Universal Music Group, the world's largest recorded music publisher, has sued MySpace.com for copyright infringement.

So why is this "music" to my ears? Simple. We believe we are the largest owner of royalty-free music in the world and we are getting larger in this area. The beauty of royalty free music is that anyone can buy a track once and use it over and over again. Our royalty free music is inexpensive and the perfect complement to the type of video found on MySpace, Brightcover and all the other community video sites found on the Web.

We will make our royalty free music even more economical for wide use when we introduce our subscription plan in early 2007.

It is interesting to compare music with images. Images this year have been impacted by the rapid growth of micropayment Web sites which allow individuals -mostly non-professional photographers- to upload images to micropayment sites. These sites in turn sell these images and of course the sites have no acquisition cost for the images other than the cost of selection. Our company is in the micropayment business, but we still are faced with the commoditization of royalty free images.

Music on the other hand cannot be commoditized since very, very few individuals can create two-minute tracks of original music. And certainly there is no mechanical equivalent in music to the digital camera for photography.

We would like to believe that it is only a matter of time before video creators will start to learn of our RoyaltyFreeMusic.com. Time is on our side. This is another case in which "Who owns, Wins!"