Resources - ASCAP
ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. ASCAP's licensees encompass all who want to perform copyrighted music publicly. ASCAP makes giving and obtaining permission to perform music simple for both creators and users of music.
http://www.ascap.com/index.html
- BMI
BMI is a performing right organization: It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
http://www.bmi.com/
- Buzzmarketing
Motivational Speaker Mark Hughes
http://www.buzzfactor.com/
- CDBaby
CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians.
[In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.]
http://www.CDBaby.com
- Harry Fox Agency
HFA is the foremost mechanical licensing, collection, and distribution agency for U.S. music publishers. Our processes, culture, and technology are client-driven and results-oriented. We continually strive to add value and strength to the music rights industry.
http://www.harryfox.com
- SESAC
Performing rights organizations, such as SESAC, are businesses designed to represent song writers and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public. By securing a license from SESAC, for example, music users (i.e., television and radio stations, auditoriums, restaurants, hotels, theme parks, malls, etc.) can legally play any song in the SESAC repertory. Without a license from a performing rights organization, music users are in danger of copyright infringement.
http://www.sesac.com/
- US Copyright Office
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times
to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"
(U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8)
http://www.copyright.gov
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