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NEWS
RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FreeHand
Systems Joins Forces with EMI Music Publishing for Digital
Sheet Music Distribution.
New Relationship Will Add Thousands of New Pop Music
Titles to FreeHandMusic.com, Already the Largest Online Digital
Sheet Music Site.
LOS
ALTOS, Calif. – November 19, 2007 –FreeHand Systems,
Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of FreeHand Systems International,
Inc. (OTC: FSYI), owner of the leading online digital sheet music
website, freehandmusic.com, has announced a licensing agreement
with EMI Music Publishing. Under this new long-term agreement,
FreeHand Systems and its digital sheet music business gains digital
distribution rights to songs published by EMI Music Publishing,
the world’s largest Music Publisher. FreeHand Systems is
the elite digital music company whose revolutionary technology—the
MusicPad Pro®—is shaping the future of the distribution
and performance of sheet music.
Some
of the songs covered under this agreement have already been added
to the library of songs available online through the company’s
music website, www.freehandmusic.com. New songs are being added
daily.
Kim
Lorz, CEO of FreeHand Systems said, “We are thrilled to
partner with EMI Music Publishing, home to one of the greatest
Pop catalogues and songs recorded by major artists like David
Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Alicia Keys, Kanye
West, The Beach Boys and many other major performers.”
“I
am pleased to have worked with FreeHand and EMI to make this
happen,” said Charles Koppelman, CEO of CAK Entertainment.
He added, “This is a major step forward in FreeHand Systems’ continuing
efforts to build a complete online store for digital sheet music
and to change the way musicians access and perform sheet music.”
FreeHand Systems,
Inc. (www.freehandsystems.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Freehand Systems International, Inc. (FSYI), is the global leader
in digital sheet music publishing and is the manufacturer of
the first digital music tablet, the MusicPad Pro® Plus. The
pad provides innovative technology to the music industry for
displaying and publishing digitally delivered sheet music. The
company’s digital sheet music website (www.freehandmusic.com)
offers nearly 100,000 titles for digital download and transfer
to the MusicPad Pro.
EMI Music
Publishing is the world's largest and most creative music publisher
with more than one million copyrights including the Jobete/Motown
catalog and many of the best known songs ever written: "New York, New York", "Over
The Rainbow" and "Singin' In The Rain". Its current
hit-making writers and producers include: Usher, Jermaine Dupri,
Jay-Z, James Blunt and Pink.
Investor
Contact:
650-941-0742
investorrelations@freehandsystems.com
Media
Contact: Clyde Beswick, VP Marketing
FreeHand Systems, Inc.
95 First Street, Suite 200
Los Altos, CA 94022
310.275.9269
cbeswick@freehandsystems.com
Note
to editors: For additional information visit FreeHand System’s
website, www.freehandsystems.com. FreeHand Systems, Inc., MusicPad
Pro®, MusicPad Pro® Plus, MusicPad Maestro™ are trademarks
of FreeHand Systems, Inc.
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This
press release contains forward-looking information within the
meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including statements
regarding potential sales, the success of the company's business,
as well as statements that include the word "believe" or
similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of
FreeHand Systems International, Inc. to differ materially from
those implied or expressed by such forward-looking statements.
Such factors include, among others, the risk factors included
in FreeHand Systems International, Inc.'s Annual Report and any
subsequent reports filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act.
This press release speaks as of the date first set forth above
and FreeHand Systems International, Inc. assumes no responsibility
to update the information included herein for events occurring
after the date hereof. Actual results could differ materially
from those anticipated due to factors such as the lack of capital,
timely development of products, inability to deliver products
when ordered, inability of potential customers to pay for ordered
products, and political and economic risks inherent in international
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