Music Copyright, Licensing and Performing Rights

Membership association of more than 575,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP licenses and distributes royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works.

BMI represents performance rights for songwriters, composers and music publishers. BMI supports businesses and organizations that play music publicly by offering blanket music licenses.

SESAC currently licenses the public performances of more than 400,000 songs on behalf of its 30,000 affiliated songwriters, composers and music publishers.

North American rental and licensing representative for the complete catalogs of Schott Music, PSNY (Project Schott New York), Universal Edition, European American Music Corporation (Kurt Weill), Schott Helicon, Faber Music, Bärenreiter, Munchkin Music (Frank Zappa), PWM Edition (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne SA), Edizioni Suvini Zerboni/Sugar Music, and the MCA/Universal Music Publishing Group and others.

Provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry. Issues mechanical licenses on behalf of its affiliated publishers for the use of music in both physical and digital distribution formats.

SoundExchange administers the statutory license, which allows services to stream artistic content while paying a fixed rate for each play. SoundExchange collects and distributes royalties for the featured artist and the sound recording copyright owner when content is played on a non-interactive digital source.