The Future of ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees

[Peggy]

Music and Antitrust Law in the USA
 

An interesting article ( from ) about the future of public performance licensing for musical works in the USA. It examines the role of the federal government in managing a thriving music licensing marketplace. Leading artists, industry participants, and academics provided their insights on public performance licensing generally and on the two consent decrees that govern licensing of performance rights.
 

The decrees involve the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Check out the link below:

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-assistant-attorney-general-makan-delrahim-future-ascap-and-bmi-consent-decrees

 

[MikeRobinson]

"Consent Decrees" are not supposed to supplant the much-harder job of lawmaking.

[Peggy]

An Open Letter from ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews and BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill in Response to the DOJ Closing Statement on the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees

Posted on January 15, 2021

 

https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/2021-doj-update

 

[Peggy]

A Message from ASCAP's President and Chairman,  Paul Williams on the DOJ's Review of the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees January 15, 2021

 

Williams "One quote in the DOJ’s closing statement stood out to me in particular: “Without songwriters and their creative genius, there would be no music, let alone an entire music industry.”

 

https://www.ascap.com/news-events/articles/2021/01/paul-williams-on-consent-decrees

[Edwardo Lopez]

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