SESAC is legit. (Government Watch).Over the past few months, CMAA CMAA Club Managers Association of America CMAA Construction Management Association of America CMAA Crane Manufacturers Association of America CMAA Country Music Association of Australia CMAA Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement has received numerous calls regarding SESAC SESAC Society of European Stage Authors and Composers SESAC Society of European Songwriters, Artists and Composers SESAC Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee SESAC Security and Stability Advisory Committee , the latest organization to request copyright fees for playing music at the club. There are three organizations licensing performance rights for most of the music copyright holders in the United States. These are the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a non-profit performance rights organisation that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating (ASCAP ASCAP abbr. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. ) and SESAC, Inc. (SESAC). Each of these organizations has members consisting of songwriters, composers, lyricists, and music publishers, and serves as a clearinghouse for collecting royalties on millions of copyrighted musical works. The performance rights given to these three agencies are non-exclusive, which means that you could negotiate separate royalty agreements directly with individual composers and/or publishers to perform their music. However, such individual negotiations would take a considerable amount of time, effort and money. For this reason, most businesses using publicly performed music choose to obtain a blanket license from ASCAP, SESAC and/or BMI. |
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