Onto legal sources of online music, and music based social networking site Imeem has secured a licensing deal with EMI which means users of the service will be able to stream music by artists signed to the major via their pages.
EMI is the third major to sign up to Imeem. Warner Music were the first, after initially threatening legal action over Imeem's existing music services. SonyBMG followed shortly after.
Confirming their deal with Imeem, which will give them a cut of advertising revenues as well as other promotional and e-commerce benefits, EMI North America's SVP Digital, Lauren Berkowitz, told reporters: "We look forward to working with Imeem to develop innovative promotional opportunities and also to building new advertising and commerce revenue streams that will benefit EMI's artists".