Given the current climate of copyright infringement on the Internet, three online companies that specialize in the digital rights sector say they are going to give music industry execs a deal they can't refuse.

The alliance announced Wednesday includes San Jose-based BayTSP, an anti-piracy and copyright tracking services company, Nashville, Tenn.-based Copyright.net, a B2B software and copyright services company and Provo, Utah-based Media Enforcer, a client software applications firm. Each of the parties say they will receive an undisclosed equity stake in this venture.

"We're thrilled with this relationship," says Copyright founder and IT Division President Tim Smith. "The combination of BayTSP's unsurpassed spidering and fingerprinting technology and Media Enforcer's client software solutions will allow us to offer a richer comprehensive community of services and products to our customers."

While no official service or product is named as of yet, by joining forces, the companies say they will tightly mix their products and services in order to create a licensing solution for copyrights holder, artists and producers.

"We believe this alliance will allow us all to better serve the market needs while simultaneously opening our door to our new partners' impressive customer bases," says BayTSP founder and CEO Mark Ishikawa.

To-date, the process of locating and licensing the legitimate use of online digital content has been a difficult and labor-intensive task. Rights holders have been presented with a confusing selection of competing technologies, each generally offering just a partial solution to a vastly complex problem.

The alliance is expected to attack the problem by combining Web spidering, file identification, client software and notification services to deliver a "one-size fits all" suite of services to the music market.

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