VICTORIA, B.C., Canada — October 24, 2007 — Dittybase announced today that it has been selected by Newsweek for the New York-based news giants' weekly on-line programming features at newsweek.com. Dittybase will provide the prestigious news magazine its music for exclusive on-line features, podcasts and mobile content, with an option to upgrade productions to broadcast rights on Television worldwide.

"We are very pleased to have been selected by one of the foremost weekly news publications in the world as they bring their readership on-line and to mobile devices with engaging content" said Lance Landiak, VP of Business Development at Dittybase.

Founded by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign editor at Time magazine, Newsweek was first published on Feb. 17, 1933. That issue, called "News-Week," featured seven photographs from the week's news on the cover. It cost 10 cents a copy, $4 for a year, and had a circulation of 50,000. Newsweek was bought by The Washington Post Company in 1961. Today, Newsweek has a worldwide circulation of more than 4 million and a total readership of more than 21 million.

Newsweek holds more prestigious National Magazine Awards, given by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), than any other newsweekly.

Newsweek offers comprehensive coverage of world events with a global network of correspondents, reporters and editors covering national and international affairs, business, science and technology, society and the arts and entertainment. Newsweek also features respected commentators such as Jonathan Alter, Ellis Cose, Jane Bryant Quinn, Robert J. Samuelson, Allan Sloan, Anna Quindlen, Stuart Taylor Jr. and George Will. Award-winning critics David Ansen and Peter Plagens review films and art. Newsweek.com offers the weekly magazine online, daily news updates, Web-only columns from Newsweek’s top writers, photo galleries, audio and video reports from correspondents, podcasts, mobile content and archives.

Dittybase (www.dittybase.com) is a pioneer of digital music licensing and rights management solutions for the entertainment and corporate media industries. Dittybase's solutions dramatically reduce the costs associated with search facilitation, distribution, storage, and publishing administration of music. This results in increased profitability for enterprises that produce, use, or monitor copyrighted music in media that is publicly performed and distributed worldwide.