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10 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by Terry Hart
Below is the full text of the Sixth Annual Donald C. [read post]
11 Dec 2022, 8:41 am by David Oxenford and Robert Primosch
This bill proposes a royalty paid to SoundExchange by over-the-air radio to benefit the recording artist and copyright holder (usually the record company), in addition to the royalties already paid to composers and publishing companies through ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 8:45 am by Jonathan Bailey
Global Music Rights (GMR) is a performing rights organization (PRO) similar to ASCAP and BMI in that they license the rights to compositions to third parties, including radio stations. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 7:32 am by musicandcopyright
SACEM remained the leading collective management organization (CMO) in revenue terms, ahead of the two US CMOs BMI and ASCAP. [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 7:21 am by David Oxenford
  As these songwriters are no longer represented by ASCAP, BMI or SESAC, for a broadcaster to publicly perform any of these songwriters’ music, they generally either need a license from GMR or they need to directly license the music from the songwriters or their agents. [read post]
24 Aug 2022, 7:42 am by Jonathan Bailey
ASCAP claims it terminated its license in April, even though the theater continued to play at least six ASCAP-licensed songs. [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 9:14 am by David Oxenford
  We have written how that right to consent to public performances is in some cases restricted by statutory or blanket licenses, where the government (either directly, through the Copyright Royalty Board for public performances of sound recordings and the use of musical compositions by noncommercial broadcasters, or indirectly through antitrust consent decrees or settlement agreements that apply to ASCAP, BMI and, in some instances, SESAC – see our article here on some of the… [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 3:44 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
Three filed by the same person, head of ASCAP; another performance rights; composers. [read post]
24 Jul 2022, 8:32 am by David Oxenford
  It also decides on the distribution of the distant signal royalties paid by cable and satellite for importing non-local television stations and the fees paid to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR by noncommercial broadcasters. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 8:28 am by David Oxenford
  For ASCAP and BMI, their rates for most uses of music are not overseen by the CRB, but instead by US District Court Judges in the Southern District of New York who act as “rate courts” pursuant to the antitrust consent decrees under which ASCAP and BMI operate (see our article here on rate courts). [read post]
17 Jul 2022, 6:52 am by David Oxenford and Robert Primosch
ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR do not typically cover the performance of the “literary work” underlying a recorded comedy routine, so these new PROs are seeking royalties for these performances. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 12:50 pm by Jody Simon
For compositions, these are the performing rights organizations (PROs) such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 8:05 am by David Oxenford
The consent decrees that govern ASCAP and BMI both are limited to the composers of “musical works. [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 6:58 am by David Oxenford and Robert Primosch
Both the ASCAP and BMI licenses with the radio industry expired at the end of 2021. [read post]
8 May 2022, 8:13 am by Chris Castle
So since there’s never been an open market because the government took the songwriters’ rights back in 1909 in this case (and 1941 in the case of the ASCAP consent decree), you can well imagine that a cottage industry of executives, lawyers and lobbyists have grown up to service the bizarre rate setting process that has totally lost their way in my view. [read post]
19 Feb 2022, 8:36 am by Rebecca Tushnet
In 2016, b/c of issues from 2012 and McCain, the ASCAP/BMI blanket license added an opt out for political campaigns. [read post]
15 Feb 2022, 8:57 am by David Oxenford
  In connection with the use of songs by political candidates, both ASCAP and BMI have taken the position that a songwriter can withdraw consent for a political campaign to publicly perform their music. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 6:30 am by Terry Hart
” Families of Robin Williams and George Carlin Say Pandora Needs To Pay Up for Streaming — “‘While it is commonplace in the music industry for companies like Pandora to enter into public performance licensing agreements with performance rights organizations like BMI and ASCAP for musical compositions, these entities do not license literary works. [read post]