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These established andemerging artists will now be available to fans around the world.""Our decision to choose IODA for digital distribution was made only aftervery careful consideration of many factors including strength andscalability of technology, global reach, and quality of client services,"said Luciana Paiva, marketing and digital manager, Som Livre. "We aredelighted with the IODA/Som Livre partnership and look forward toexcellent results.""Partnering with IODA is an important strategic step for us as it expandsour reach to fans that we otherwise would not have access to," commentedSandy Herder, digital operations and neighboring rights manager, MunichRecords. "The centerpiece of IODA's highly scalable platform is itsRightsholder Dashboard, which provides an easy-to-use system whereby ourlabels can track sales, edit metadata, and choose how content will bedistributed and marketed. This was particularly attractive for us as webelieve it will make our labels more productive, better informed and farmore successful."Som Livre is a Brazilian record label owned by Globo Group, the fourthlargest media conglomerate in the world, with TV stations watched by morethan 120 million people daily. Som Livre is one of the three largestrecord labels in the Brazilian market and was founded in 1969 tocommercialize soap opera sound tracks.

Som Livre soon expanded to recordnational Brazilian artists and bands, including Tim Maia, Rita Lee, BaraoVermelho, Cazuza, Xuxa, Marina Elali and others. For more information, goto Records, based in the Netherlands, was created in 1946 and for manyyears specialized in producing, licensing and distributing Roots musicand representing independent labels such as World Circuit, Greensleevesand Rounder. In recent years Munich Records also attracted independentlabels such as Domino, Drag City and Saddle Creek. For more information, go to http:// Music was founded in 1976 by Henri Belolo, also the founder of theVillage People and the Ritchie Family. Thirty-two years later, ScorpioMusic is one of the leading independent record companies in France withtracks like 2 Unlimited, Haddaway, Gala, 20 Fingers, Blue, Lorna, Outwork,Sharam, Alex Gaudino, Enur feat and Natasja.

Artists in Scorpio Music'scatalog include the Village People, Ritchie Family, Break Machine, NajouaBelyzel, DJ Assad and Eartha Kitt. For more information, go to http:// Music Group (CMG), based out of Trinidad, is the major operatorinvolved with Caribbean Music, having dedicated the last 15 years topushing it high on the worldwide map of the music industry. Its labelsinclude legendary Ritualsmusic, a Trinidadian label with Calypso, Reggae,Soca, Zouk, Caribbean World, Steelband, Rapso and Parang with artists suchas 3Canal, Brother Resistance, Mungal Patasar, Kindred, Superblue, PamberiSteel Orchestra, and Chris Combette, among others. For more information,go to http:// IODAIODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, is theindustry-leading digital distribution company for the global independentmusic community. IODA provides comprehensive services to record labels,physical distributors, and artists, including license negotiations; mediaencoding and metadata management; and royalty payment administration andreporting. The company also offers promotional support through adedicated marketing division and through the IODA Promonet(), a promotional distribution network that providesqualified podcasts, blogs, and other promotional sites with access topre-cleared, legal music and other promotional assets from IODA's labels.Founded in 2003, IODA represents a rapidly expanding roster of over amillion and a half tracks from artists around the globe. The company'swebsite is Info:Jessica Hoffmantel: 925-296-6161email: Email ContactCopyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-.

CAMBRIDGE, MA and LONDON, Jan 20 (MARKET WIRE) MetaCarta, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search andreferencing solutions, has partnered with the British Transport Police(BTP) to help provide situational awareness for the 2012 Olympics. BritishTransport Police (BTP) will use MetaCarta geographic search andreferencing solutions to geo-enable and consolidate information frommultiple data sources by geographic location and display it in MapView,BTP's intranet map-based visualization tool.MetaCarta will be showcasing their solutions at the DGI 2009: The 5thAnnual European Geospatial Intelligence Conference, Stand 20 from January19-22 at the QEII Conference Centre, London. Richard Smith, ForceInformation Manager at BTP will be speaking about his efforts at DGI onTuesday, January 20, 2009 at 14:15 at the session titled Using GIS toPrevent Organised & Opportunist Crime.MetaCarta will geo-enable in excess of 1 million documents from BritishTransport Police, and documents from the BTP's Memex law enforcementsolution so that the information can be searched and mapped by location.In addition, MetaCarta will supply breaking news from over 4,200 open newssources such as BBC, Reuters, and Associated Press as well as citizenblogs. All of this information is combined and visualized on a map tocreate a complete picture about the location so that analysts and watchstanders can quickly visualize what is happening in a specific geographicarea as real-time events occur."We safeguard around six million people every day and are responsible forsecuring 10,000 miles of railway track We believe travelling is aboutmore than just getting there.