ASCAP Midwest Membership Director Shawn Murphy offers advice to songwriters on how and when to register a song with a performing rights organization, and warns of the consequences of waiting too long to do so.

for more info on the different types of performance rights organizations, click here.

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Founder and CEO of Nettwerk Music Group, Terry McBride, shares his views on the business model he believes is the future of the music industry and the benefits that can come from artists controlling and owning every portion of their copyrights and likeness.

The information about publishing is not the most valuable treasure of this video clip. It’s Phil’s will to grind and create an opportunity for himself when the climate of the music business was changing.

Entertainment lawyer Barry Menes talks about various publishing deals and how money is made distributed from such arrangements. Know the biz!!

By: George Howard

ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are United States Performing Rights Organizations (PROs). Effectively, they all do the same thing. PROs issue blanket licenses to music broadcasters, such as television and radio stations, auditoriums, larger restaurants and clubs, hotels, or theme parks. Basically, they are issued to anyone who plays music in a public manner. By paying the blanket license fees to the PROs, these broadcasters are able to use whatever music they want without having to account to each individual songwriter. The blanket license fee’s amount is based on broadcast reach; a large commercial radio station pays a higher blanket license fee than a small bookstore, but both pay. Read the rest of this entry »