Overview

Copyright Exchange^SM is the marketplace for the new intellectual property economy.

The new Nashville business, run by professionals experienced in the exchange of song catalogs, is poised to become the premier broker for copyrights. Through its expert marketing, negotiating, and administrative services, including its Copyright Listing Service^SM, Copyright Exchange is building a professional, predictable environment where copyright holders and buyers can find one another and structure transactions.

In much the same way that a real-estate agent facilitates the buying and selling of land or buildings, Copyright Exchange is making the complex business of selling catalogs of creative works easy to understand. It is the first company to concentrate actively on the market for this increasingly common transaction and the first dedicated to bringing new groups of non-traditional copyright buyers to these attractive and dynamic investment opportunities.

Copyright Exchange's services will bring transparency and integrity to the buying and selling of copyright catalogs, while its Copyright Listing Service will be an on-line, world-wide clearing house for copyright catalogs. Beyond that, Copyright Exchange's business vision includes building a network of affiliates with uniform goals, expertise, and tools, so buyers and sellers can work with a trusted agent face-to-face, around the country and around the world.

Between their affiliates and the reach of their listing service, copyright sellers will have access to vastly more buyers than they would working with their attorney or accountant alone. Copyright Exchange brings strength in numbers to an increasingly active market for copyrights.

Copyright Exchange believes that intellectual property is becoming even more than a major U.S. export and driver of the new media economy. It is rapidly maturing into an aggressive but rewarding investment opportunity as well. In the coming years, intellectual property will become a commonplace long-term investment, like stocks, bonds, or precious metals.

"The beauty of this investment is you're basically buying an annuity," says co-founder Dwight Wiles. "For an up-front investment, you're going to get paid back regularly in the future. And with a little luck, material from the catalog will be re-recorded or re-used in films, commercials, or compilations, and you have the potential of significantly increasing your return on investment."

This market could hardly be more ripe with opportunity. A revolution is underway in the distribution of creative content, especially music, video, and software. As a result, Copyright Exchange believes the market for copyrights will grow increasingly active in the coming years, as traditional media companies and non-traditional investors attempt to acquire larger catalogs of content.

Copyrights are a remarkable investment property in that even after the work is done, the creative impulse can pay back over many years. Songwriters call it "mailbox money." With the expertise of Copyright Exchange, you no longer have to be a creator or in the creativity business to enjoy the fruits of this unique asset.