Stay Tuned for Music Performance Wars
10th August 2016
Last week, the two major domestic performance rights organizations for the American music industry, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, (ASCAP), and Broadcasting Music, Inc., (BMI), threw down the gauntlet on the Department of Justice. They just announced that they will be using a joint strategy of legislation and litigation to get around DOJ’s new interpretation of longstanding antitrust consent decrees, which limit the performance rights organizations’ flexibility to license rights to perform copyrighted music.