Blue Arrow Music Identification Software

Gael MacGregor recently wrote a very interesting article at filmmusicmag.com about a new music identification technology that is quickly gaining notoriety.  Its Landmark Digital Services’ Blue Arrow technology, and its garnering a lot of buzz within the music supervision community.  Blue Arrow technology enables music that is in films and tv to be more accurately identified for reporting purposes.  This means that we won’t have to rely on cue sheets for music reporting.  In turn, that could lead to more accurate and timely royalty payments.  Wahoo! Right?  Well not quite yet… there are some pitfalls.  The technology is still prohibitively expensive, and it brings to light the issues involved with re-titling of copyrighted works.  Messy stuff but MacGregor’s article does a great job of breaking down all the issues involved.  Check it out here.