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11 Mar 2020, 7:33 am by Jonathan Bailey
ASCAP did not respond to Tequilas’ claims. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 6:00 am by Terry Hart
” Plugging Another Analog Hole in Music Royalties — Bill Rosenblatt takes a look at one company’s efforts to automate setlist reporting for musicians to provide more accurate data to performing rights organizations like ASCAP and BMI. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 8:45 am by David Oxenford
As we have written before (see our articles here, here and here), GMR and the RMLC are in protracted litigation over whether or not the rates set by GMR should be subject to some sort of antitrust review, as are the rates set by ASCAP, BMI and even SESAC (see our article here on the SESAC rates). [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 11:20 am by Jonathan Bailey
To that end, there are four PROs to consider: ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 8:52 am by David Oxenford
Global Music Rights, the relatively new performing rights organization that signed a number of composers of popular songs away from ASCAP and BMI in order to seek higher music royalties for the public performance of their works on radio stations and other media platforms (see our articles here and here), lost one round in its litigation with the Radio Music License Committee in RMLC’s attempt to bring GMR under some sort of rate review under the antitrust laws. [read post]
13 Feb 2020, 4:15 am by Sue Ghosh Stricklett
The Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the Department) is currently reviewing the consent decrees between the federal government and two performance rights organization behemoths: ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) and BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.). [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 9:01 am by Rebecca Tushnet
ASCAP license won’t suffice.Music therapy has prosocial functional use. [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 9:00 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Big Content still has most of the bargaining power/Judge Koh in the SDNY found ASCAP and BMI engaged in anticompetitive conduct in negotiations with Pandora. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 9:14 am by David Oxenford
These additional rights are not covered by the public performance licenses from ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR and SoundExchange, nor are the rights to use the “sound recording” or “master” in the podcast. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 12:47 am by musicandcopyright
The US is home to the single biggest live music promoter, Live Nation Entertainment, as well as the two leading authors’ rights organizations, ASCAP and BMI, and the biggest performance rights organization, SoundExchange. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 8:35 pm by David Oxenford
  As we wrote here and here, the Department of Justice is considering changes to the antitrust consent decrees that govern ASCAP and BMI. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 9:41 am by Jonathan Bailey
As part of that lawsuit, the estate wanted access to his concert earnings but Sheeran argued that, even if the song is an infringement, a blanket license from ASCAP makes live performances of the song legal. [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 6:17 pm by Chris Castle
MCSC is the performing rights org in China: basically they’re the ASCAP/BMI in China and MCSC have reciprocal agreements with ASCAP/BMI just like most of the foreign PRO’s do. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 10:05 am by David Oxenford
As we’ve written before, the royalties that broadcasters pay to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and even GMR are paid to the composers of music (and the copyright holders in the musical compositions, usually a publishing company). [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 10:41 am by Deb Givens
First, Senator Graham’s letter to AAG Delrahim noted the “broad” and “intense divisions” among stakeholders concerned with DOJ’s ongoing review of the existing consent decrees requiring compulsory blanket licensing by ASCAP and BMI for the public performance of musical works. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 9:09 am by Jonathan Bailey
ASCAP also says the bar previously obtained a license but had it terminated in 2015 after they failed to pay their fees. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 6:14 am by Chris Castle
These frozen rates likely have an indirect relative impact on all other statutory rates for songs or near-statutory rates in the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 12:49 am by musicandcopyright
The performance of BMI and ASCAP meant the US is the clear leader in terms of collections at country level. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 8:43 am by David Oxenford
Whenever there is a news story about GMR, I seem to get the question “who are these guys, and why do I have to pay them when I am already paying ASCAP, BMI and SESAC (and SoundExchange) for the public performance of the music that my station plays? [read post]