[mb-users] Partnerships with cover-art sites?

[Robert Kaye]

On Sep 1, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> We do have several CoverArt sites in wiki which should be contacted  
> for permission, however I miss Amazon in there. Does MB participate  
> in Amazon's partner program?

Yes we do. And they pay us several hundred dollars a quarter for  
doing so.

> If not, why are we linking against them? If we do, maybe some more  
> partnerships should be created, in particular with all the big  
> shops? I was writing an e-mail to Ozon.ru, Russia's biggest e- 
> store, when I saw that they also offer partnerships which include  
> hot-linking of covers and products. I could create an account for  
> MusicBrainz, but I do not even know whether MusicBrainz is allowed  
> to make any kind of profit apart from donations.

Yes, we are allowed to receive income apart from donations. Since  
this income is directly related to offering and improving our service  
(our stated mission to the IRS (US tax authority) we can collect this  
income without any problems.

I'd be interested in learning more about this, but since I speak no  
Russian its clear that we need to work on this together. Drop me a  
line personally and lets review the requirements they establish and  
figure out how much work it will be.

> So could someone who is knowledgeable enough explain this to me?

Sorry for taking so long to respond.

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