NAB: 'Complex & Opaque' PRO Practices Burden Broadcasters

MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS: ASCAP, BMI bite back • Zuck testifies • CD Baby's Neuman on 'narrowing of success' • Viagogo under fire • SongCapsule quiz

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US review of BMI and ASCAP favours interests of organisations that want to “pay less to music creators” says letter

A letter signed by thousands of music creators and publishers has expressed concern that the latest US Copyright Office inquiry into the country’s performing rights organisations, like BMI and ASCAP, was prompted by correspondence from three Congress members that “focused solely on the perspective of music licensees and failed to consider our perspective as songwriters, composers and music publishers”. As a result, the letter states, the questio…

Ascap and BMI respond to US Copyright Office PROs inquiry

US performing rights organisations Ascap and BMI have filed their responses to the US Copyright Office’s recent notice of inquiry. The post is from Music Ally.

NAB: 'Complex & Opaque' PRO Practices Burden Broadcasters

In its response to a Notice of Inquiry on Performance Rights Organizations, the NAB is warning the US Copyright Office that today's licensing marketplace has grown overly convoluted and financially burdensome for broadcasters as BMI and ASCAP protest.