"Jamendo, which made available tens of thousands of free tracks licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License is changing course under new ownership.
"After months of uncertain search for a new investor, the company has finally been purchased by one of its clients" Jamendo's Patrick Haour told Hypebot. "The .com website will keep on existing, but the main focus from now on is on background music licensing". This paid portion of Jamendo has previously been known as Jamendo.pro.
"Only a very small team has been maintained to keep things running," said the talented Haour, who will be leaving the company on March 1st and already contemplating his options."
It would be nice if anyone can confirm this to be true.
Isn't background music a polite phrase for music that is so unthoughtful that people can ignore it whilst they do their shopping ;-) .
What a waste of time & energy for so many to not listen .
wildly inaccurate. real news are and will be announced here by the team (cf my earlier thread), the rest is just chatter. However as he made a story out of it I can confirm Mr. Haour was indeed among the layoffs.