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music is represented in one of "the top 200 grossing US tours of the year." This is true in accordance with ASCAP's membership agreement, which states that top performing writers and publishers receive, "bonus incentives", which are taken from the untraceable revenue brought in by bars, nightclubs, and similarly situated venues.
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The advent of radio in the 1920s brought an important new source of income for ASCAP. Radio stations originally only broadcast performers live, the performers working for free. Later, performers wanted to be paid, and recorded performances became more prevalent. ASCAP started collecting license fees
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October 14, 2009, a federal court ruled that "when a ringtone plays on a cellular telephone, even when that occurs in public, the user is exempt from copyright liability, and is not liable either secondarily or directly." The ruling made clear that playing music in public, when done without any
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ASCAP licenses over 11,500 local commercial radio stations, more than 2500 non-commercial radio broadcasters and hundreds of thousands of "general" licensees (bars, restaurants, theme parks, etc.). It maintains reciprocal relationships with nearly 40 foreign PROs across six continents, and licenses
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ASCAP has also been criticized for its extremely non-transparent operations, including the refusal to release attendance records for board members, the notes from board meetings, and the reasoning behind their weighting formulas which determine how much money a song or composition earns for use on
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It is striving to license those that make a business of transmitting its members' music. This holds true for any medium where businesses have been built by using this music as content or a service – whether terrestrial broadcast, satellite, cable, Internet or wireless carriers providing audio and
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In 2009, Mike Masnik, the founder and CEO of Floor64, accused ASCAP of keeping some royalties instead of passing them on to artists. He claimed ASCAP collects royalties from all sizes of live performance on behalf of all the artists it represents but passes on the royalties only to artists whose
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in which the most important points were that ASCAP must fairly set rates and not discriminate between customers who have basically the same requirements to license music, or "similar standing". Also, anyone who is unable to negotiate satisfactory terms with ASCAP, or is otherwise unable to get a
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Beginning in 1986, ASCAP created the Golden
Soundtrack Award to honor composers for "outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music." In 1996, it was renamed the Henry Mancini Award to pay tribute to the late composer's history of achievements in the field.
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It is seeking to ensure that wireless carriers pay ASCAP members a share of the substantial revenue that mobile operators derive from content (like ringtones) that uses ASCAP members' music. This content includes the delivery of full track songs, music videos, television content, ringtones and
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camps that sang ASCAP's copyrighted works at camps with lawsuits for not paying licensing fees. These threats were later retracted. However, it has drawn negative attention for cracking down on licensing fees on other occasions as well, such as when it demanded that open mic events need to pay
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brought their compositions into the ASCAP repertory in the 1940s. In the 1940s, it was common for ASCAP and BMI to send out field representatives to sign new songwriters and music publishing companies, as the firms were not household names; one such ASCAP employee was
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was to blame. This raised contention as those critical of the announcement wondered why the pandemic at that time would affect payments related to the third quarter of 2019. Further, it was revealed that publishers were still being paid royalties on time.
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In 2021, ASCAP collected over US$ 1.335 billion in revenue, distributed $ 1.254 billion in royalties to rights-holders, and maintained a registry of over 16 million works. ASCAP membership surpassed 900,000 and revenues exceeded $ 1.5 billion in 2022.
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billions of public performances worldwide each year. ASCAP was the first U.S. PRO to distribute royalties for performances on the
Internet and continues to pursue and secure licenses for websites, digital music providers and other new media.
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It was reported in April 2020, that songwriters and composers were facing delays in receiving royalties. This was delivered via a memo to hundreds of thousands of members from CEO Elizabeth
Matthews, who said the global disruption of the
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Further controversies arose involving ASCAP in 2009 and 2010. The organization requested that some websites pay licensing fees on embedded YouTube videos, even though YouTube already pays licensing fees, and demanded payment from
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Southern District of New York overseeing the consent decree and litigate the terms they find objectionable, and the terms set by the court will be binding upon the licensee and ASCAP.
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generated considerable public attention. Critics claimed that ASCAP may seek to hold consumers responsible for a ringtone public performance. In statements to the press, ASCAP noted the following:
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in 1996, were renamed the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards to honor Gould's lifelong commitment to encouraging young creators as well as his own early development as a composer.
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In 1979, to honor composers of concert music (Classical) in the early stages of their careers, ASCAP created The ASCAP Foundation Young
Composer Awards which, upon the death of ASCAP President
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or country) that had been rejected by ASCAP. Upon the conclusion of litigation between broadcasters and ASCAP in
October 1941, ASCAP settled for a lower fee than they had initially demanded.
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derived from both country music and rhythm and blues music caused airplay of BMI licensed songs to double that of ASCAP licensed songs. ASCAP officials decided that the practice of
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summer campers participate in daily symphonic band rehearsals. Since 1999, the two institutions have partnered to offer a free music camp for New York City public school students.
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Spanish-speaking world as their audience. In 1981, ASCAP prevailed against CBS in an eleven-year-old court case challenging the ASCAP blanket license.
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236:(PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).
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In the late 1930s, ASCAP's general control over most music and its membership requirements were considered to be in restraint of trade and illegal under the
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for 30-second streaming previews of music tracks, which traditionally does not require a license, being considered a promotional vehicle for song sales.
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ASCAP also bestows the near-annual Deems Taylor Awards to writers and music journalists. Named after the first president of ASCAP,
1937:"ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims that It's an Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP – From the You-and-Me-Against-the-World Dept"
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916:"Statement of the Department of Justice on the Closing of the Antitrust Division's Review of the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees".
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in New York City, to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members, who were mostly writers and
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2039:The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 4th ed., 589 p.
2023:The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 3rd ed., 845 p.
2007:The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 2nd ed., 636 p.
1998:The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 1st ed., 483 p.
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1153:How The Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll
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1899:"ASCAP's Attack on Creative Commons"
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1805:"ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture"
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2182:How to use archival material
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2070:This Business of Songwriting
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961:Aswad, Jem (March 1, 2022).
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2119:This Business of Music
2089:Music Business Journal
2068:Blume, Jason (2006).
1778:(September 10, 2009).
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1510:"The ASCAP Foundation"
862:United States v. ASCAP
758:Girl Scouts of the USA
439:Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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1151:Wald, Elijah (2011).
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291:John Raymond Hubbell
122:John Raymond Hubbell
73:ASCAP (1914–present)
2421:League of Composers
2159:Library of Congress
1907:The Huffington Post
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