The ASCAP|BMI Feud

The ASCAP-BMI Feud, Status Panic, and the Struggle for Cold War ...

This article examines how, in an attempt to reassert the status and prestige they had enjoyed before the war, ASCAP and its supporters exploited contemporary ...

ASCAP & BMI -- Protectors of Artists or Shadowy Thieves?

ASCAP can use as much of its members' money as it needs to fight court cases to protect its interests, and it is very hard to fight their lock on the legal ...

Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - THE ASCAP-BMI WAR

The Hotel and Restaurant Association immediately gave battle to ASCAP, threatening to cut the size of the orchestras (thereby throwing musicians out of work).

World War II and the ASCAP and Musicians Strikes – Pay for Play

(BMI) to give ASCAP competition and hopefully alleviate the pressure for increased licensing fees. BMI successfully challenged ASCAP's monopoly by focusing on ...

ASCAP BMI War - History of Rock

The the conflict between America Society of Composers and Publishers and the record companies was a battle between one long time influential group (ASCAP) ...

ASCAP and BMI Join Forces to Fight the Department of Justice's ...

ASCAP and BMI, the country's two leading performing rights organizations (PROs) collectively representing more than one million songwriters, composers and ...

ASCAP and BMI Announce Joint Task Force to Address Fraud

Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global ...

ASCAP & BMI - Protectors of Artists or Shadowy Thieves?

ASCAP can use as much of its members' money as it needs to fight court cases to protect its interests, and it is very hard to fight their lock on the legal ...

Pandora strikes deals with BMI, ASCAP - The Tennessean

... BMI. The two performance rights organizations have been engaged in a bitter legal feud with Pandora, which does not need permission to play ...

An Open Letter from ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews and BMI ...

While BMI and ASCAP have long advocated for updating and modernizing our consent decrees, it has become clear over the course of two different ...

"Probe and Night Beat" The ASCAP-B.M.I. feud (TV Episode 1956)

The ASCAP-B.M.I. feud: With Mike Wallace.

BMI & ASCAP Join Forces to Fight the Department of Justice's ...

BMI & ASCAP Join Forces to Fight the Department of Justice's Interpretation of Their Consent Decrees ... BMI today announced it is taking legal ...

Rocked in a bad way: ASCAP, BMI lose antitrust fight | Alan Cross

Rocked in a bad way: ASCAP, BMI lose antitrust fight ... The Department of Justice's (DoJ) antitrust division on Thursday announced it wouldn't be modifying the ...

ASCAP and BMI Join Forces to Fight the Department - ProQuest

ASCAP and BMI Join Forces to Fight the Department of Justice's Interpretation of Their Consent Decrees: BMI to Challenge 100% Licensing in Federal Court.

U.S. Justice Department loses fight with BMI over fractional music ...

The government lost a fight with music licensing giant BMI on Friday over whether it needed to change how it collects royalties for music.

ASCAP CEO thanks Universal, Jody Gerson for 'hard fight' to ...

At the event on Wednesday, while presenting UMPG with the Publisher of the Year award, ASCAP's Matthews referred to Universal's three-month-long ...

Message from ASCAP President Paul Williams on Strategy to Fight ...

ASCAP and BMI believe that the DOJ got this wrong, and we will not rest in our mission to fix the problems the DOJ decided not to solve. ASCAP ...

3 observations on… the sale of BMI (and Google's entrance into ...

The lion's share of the sale's windfall will go to a group whose interests have often been at odds with those of BMI's songwriter and publisher ...

BMI President & CEO Mike O'Neill and ASCAP CEO Elizabeth ...

We also know that change is hard. The BMI and ASCAP consent decrees have been in place for nearly 80 years, and suddenly getting rid of them ...

When Should a Small Business Pay ASCAP or BMI?

A growing number of small businesses are being unpleasantly surprised with letters from performing rights organizations, such as the American ...