newsbriefs - CustomDisc.com secures license to Intrepid Enterprises music vending machine - Brief Article

Emedia Professional, Jan, 1999

CustomDisc.com uses kiosks to move from internet to retail stores

CustomDisc.com has secured the exclusive license rights to U.S. patent No. 5,633,839 from Intrepid Enterprises, a specialized intellectual-property marketing firm, for a music vending machine capable of recording a customer's music selections onto a compact disc. CustomDisc.com's automated and patented CustomDisc kiosk enables the company to extend its business beyond the Internet by allowing any brick-and-mortar retailer to offer customers in-store custom CDs. To date, CustomDisc.com has licensed more than 185,000 tracks from more than 115 record labels, including 4,000 Billboard Top 100 hits. The company offers alternative, blues, children's, classical, country, dance, folk, jazz, pop/rock, reggae, and world music selections.

(Custom Revolutions Inc., One Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT 06901; 203/323-8901; Fax 203/323-8912; http://www.CustomDisc.com)