If a Recording to Tape Had Ascap and Bmi Fees Paid

[This article was written by Dae Bogan and information technology originally appeared on his website.]

I received an email this morning time from a reader who had read my slice, "Demystifying The Music Industry: What's This About Public Performance Rights?." He asked, "If SoundExchange was designated by the Library of Congress as the sole PRO to administer public performance licenses and also collect public performances fees for Sound Recording Company Owners, then why practise artists withal utilize the services provided by the other 3 US PROs (ASCAP / BMI / SESAC) – is [SoundExchange] not sufficient by itself?"

A lot of indie artists are dislocated about the difference between ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange.

I'll endeavor to pause downwardly the near of import differences between these groups and elaborate towards the end about other considerations and other royalty collection entities. Feel free to comment with whatsoever questions (or corrections).

Traditional operation royalties vs. digital performance royalties

ASCAP (American Social club of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), BMI (Circulate Music, Inc.) and SESAC are US public functioning organizations (PROs) who collect publishing royalties (performance royalties) for the PUBLIC PERFORMANCE of musical works as stipulated past the U.S. Copyright Deed. This includes fees paid by radio stations, businesses, restaurants, concert venues, bars, nightclubs, sports arenas, bowling alleys, malls and shopping centers, amusement parks, colleges & universities, etc. for performing music in the public (within the confines of their establishment).

These monies are paid to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC for a coating public operation license that grants the licensee (the concern) permission to let music to be performed in their environs (this includes music over speakers and music performed alive past an artist). The license fees paid to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are passed on to the copyright owners in the musical works (song) — PUBLISHERS (50%) and SONGWRITERS (l%) — as performance royalties for musical works.

[Editor's note: ASCAP considers the publisher's share and songwriter'due south share to each be fifty% of total operation royalties. BMI talks about these aforementioned splits every bit 100% for the publisher and 100% for the songwriter. It gets a lilliputian confusing, but they're essentially talking about the same coin dissever in exactly the same manner. It's just that ASCAP uses percentages that are based on total functioning royalties (thus 50/l), while BMI splits those halves FIRST, and then distributes 100% of each one-half to the advisable entities.]

SoundExchange is a US public performance organization (PRO) who collects royalties for DIGITAL PUBLIC PERFORMANCE of sound recordings stipulated past the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recording Act of 1995 and Digital Millennium Copyright Human action of 1998.

[Editor's note: SoundExchange only collects these digital functioning royalties for Non-interactive streaming (the kind where a DJ, algorithm, or other exterior forcefulness is determining exactly what you hear).]

This includes fees paid by music service providers (MSPs) to stream music over satellite (SiriusXM), internet (Pandora, Rhapsody), cable (Music Option, Verve) and other digital ways as stipulated by police force.

[Editor'south notation: Spotify, iTunes Radio, and Rdio take struck deals with labels and distributors to pay digital functioning royalties directly to rights holders — thus bypassing SoundExchange. Just once more, digital operation royalties are only owed for not-interactive streams which occur inside those services' radio-like features, NOT in their on-need capacities. For a complete list of who paid royalties to SoundExchange in the last iii months of 2014, click HERE. Thanks to Ari Herstand for that link.]

These fees are paid to SoundExchange for a digital statutory license, under sections 112 and 114 of the Copyright Act, to stream sound recordings. The license fees paid to SoundExchange are passed on to copyright owners in the audio recording (main) — RECORD LABEL (50%), FEATURED ARTIST (45%), and Non-FEATURED ARTISTS (i.e. background vocalist, session musicians, etc.) (5%) — as digital statutory royalties for sound recordings.

Things to know…

• With some exceptions (by and large political) ARTISTS do not receive performance royalties in musical works (ASCAP/BMI/SESAC) unless they wrote the song. And so, Rihanna does not earn performance royalties in musical works when she performs "Stay" or when yous listen to information technology on the radio or in a coffee business firm.
• With some exceptions (mostly political) SONGWRITERS do not receive digital statutory royalties in sound recordings (SoundExchange) unless they besides recorded the song with their vocals. Then, Diane Warren does not earn digital statutory royalties in sound recordings when you hear any of the songs she wrote for Whitney Houston, Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill (and the list goes on) on Pandora or iTunes Radio.

  [Update: However, Diane Warren does earn public performance royalties in the musical works (ASCAP/BMI/SESAC) for these transmissions (Cheers Professor Surmani of the Masters of Artists in Music Industry Administration plan at CSUN for communicable this misleading omission!).]

• Pandora, Rdio, iTunes Radio, Spotitfy, etc. must pay bothASCAP, BMI, SESAC public performance fees for musical works AND digital performance fees for sound recordings.

[Editor's note: Though, equally stated earlier, Spotify, Rdio, and iTunes Radio bypass SoundExchange to pay digital operation royalties directly to labels and distributors on behalf of rights holders.]

Terrestrial radio stations, such every bit KISS FM, only have to pay ASCAP, BMI, SESAC public functioning fees for musical works, but non SoundExchange digital operation fees for sound recordings considering of special stipulations in the Us Copyright Act for broadcast radio. This is part of the reason why Pandora wants to reduce the royalties it pays.

[Editor'southward note: Nonetheless, many terrestrial radio stations also have digital broadcasts or offer culling playlists on a counterpart digital station. Those stations DO take to pay digital performance royalties to SoundExchange for those not-interactive streams.]

• Royalties collected by SoundExchange tin expire if the artist does not annals to collect them!!! [See THIS article for more details, and to acquire how CD Baby can help you collect unclaimed digital performance royalties BEFORE they expire!]

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More Audio Recording Royalties

There are lots of other sound recording royalties (besides the digital royalties collected by SoundExchange) that are collected on behalf of featured recording artists, non-featured artists (ie. background or session vocalists), instrumental musicians, etc. They include:

• Sound recording revenue (also known every bit Dart royalties, which stands for Digital Sound Recorders and Tapes) generated from the U.S. Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA). Manufactures and importers of audio home recording devices (such every bit record recorders) and audio home recording media (such as black CDs) pay a royalty to the Copyright Role;
• Sound recording acquirement generated from reciprocal Private Copy agreements with numerous foreign collectives in countries that also have legislation providing these royalties such as: Nippon, the netherlands, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Republic of latvia, and Republic of estonia, just to name a few;
• Sound recording revenue from record rentals remuneration from Japan, where audio recordings are rented in much the aforementioned manner DVDs are rented hither in the U.S.;
• Sound recording revenue generated digital public performance from the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 (DPRA) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Human action (DMCA) paid to SoundExchange (as discussed above);
• Sound recording revenue generated from a treaty with AIE, Sociedad de Gestión – the Spanish Rights Collective. The Audiovisual Division of the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Belongings Rights Distribution Fund (established in 2010) distributes payments collected from whatever telly show or motion movie that is broadcast on Castilian television set and contains the operation of an AFM or SAG-AFTRA vocalist;
• Sound recording revenue nerveless by the Symphonic Royalties division of the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund, which are royalties for performers on Symphonic sound recordings, including musicians and singers of an orchestra.
• Audio recording revenue from primary use licenses between record companies and film/Tv set production companies (TV shows, movies, and web series), advertisers (commercials and products), video games; and
• Audio recording acquirement from compulsory mechanical licenses for sample use in other songs, copies and re-distribution, and ringtones.

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Musical works royalties

At that place are lots of other musical works royalties (likewise the public performance royalties nerveless past ASCAP/BMI/SESAC) that are collected on behalf of songwriters, music producers and publishers:

• Publishing revenue from synchronization rights of music to moving-picture show/Television, video games, or commercial. (Collected past publisher);
• Publishing acquirement from lyric print rights used in music apps, books and magazines, apparel, websites (similar the lyric websites), or canvas music (such as MusicNotes.com. (Collected by publisher);
• Publishing revenue from compulsory mechanical licenses for record labels or indie artists to record and distribute music works (such as going a song placed with a major artist or an indie artist doing a cover of a song previously performed past a major artist) whether posted on YouTube or sold on a CD. (Collected by Harry Fox Bureau);
• Publishing revenue from Sprint royalties from Audio Dwelling Recording Act of 1992 distributed to the Music Publishers Subfund and Writers Subfund (nerveless past Copyright Office);
• Publishing revenue from public functioning via ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC (Note: A songwriter can only be registered to one of these guys);
• Publishing revenue from foreign monies via sub-publishing agreements and other licensing arrangements in foreign territories. (Collected past PROs, publishers and other collecting entities depending on the nature of the royalties and legislation);
• Publishing revenue from hundreds of other licensing sources (nerveless by PROs, publishers and other collecting entities depending on the nature of the royalties and territory)

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And there's more, just I'll get out information technology at that. Any questions?

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Author bio: Dae Bogan is a serial entrepreneur, professor, startup counselor, and manufacture speaker at DaeBoganMusic.com. Featured in YFS (Young Fabled & Cocky-Employed) magazine, Dae has founded and operated a music publishing visitor, independent record label, artist management company, event product company, and ii music tech startups. Prior to consulting and collaborating with some of the biggest music companies in the globe, including Universal Music Group and Live Nation, Dae was Vice President of Marketing at Shiekh Shoes where he launched Shiekh Music and oversaw all in-shop and digital music retail, artist sponsorships, musical events, and an independent artist support program. Dae is currently the Professor of Entertainment Marketing at Emerson College in Los Angeles and advisor to several music tech startups including Floshare, Tuneport, Sonabos, Requext, Language Zen, iQnect Music, and Manglers. For more than information and industry insights, visit world wide web.daeboganmusic.com.

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