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"The June 5 announcement by the DOJ’s antitrust division comes after the two groups—the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI)—urged the department to create new rules that would allow them to secure fairer terms from broadcasters and other public venues."

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/justice-department-to-review-music-rights-licensing-deal-renewal

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I'm certainly no attorney or copyright authority, but this doesn't sound good to me either. Another money grab. There has to be some middle ground somewhere. 

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In theory a more open market would allow lower fees. The problem is there are only two groups. Not a lot of competition there.  It's basically more the effect that the drop in revenues has had on the music industry which ties to the downloading era, where they went from so much money they didn't know what to do with it all to next to nothing. They've been scrambling for years to try and get the money back, and to be truthful, though they wouldn't admit it- the time BITD where performance rights were overlooked/ignored was because they had so much money incoming and really didn't care.

 

A wait and see situation from the looks of it. Keep in mind if fees go beyond affordability, they get nothing. No one will purchase.

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1 hour ago, BigW said:

In theory a more open market would allow lower fees. The problem is there are only two groups. Not a lot of competition there.  It's basically more the effect that the drop in revenues has had on the music industry which ties to the downloading era, where they went from so much money they didn't know what to do with it all to next to nothing. They've been scrambling for years to try and get the money back, and to be truthful, though they wouldn't admit it- the time BITD where performance rights were overlooked/ignored was because they had so much money incoming and really didn't care.

 

A wait and see situation from the looks of it. Keep in mind if fees go beyond affordability, they get nothing. No one will purchase.

I have no doubts their lobbyists have made the right visits

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Pretty sure this is only talking about the blanket license fees that venues like bars, restaurants, and other organizations pay to play music in their venues. When you go to sporting event and they are playing music on the PA system, or you go to a bar and their is music playing, or you go to the mall and hear music, or pretty much any public or private space and you hear music, then that venue has paid an annual fee (blanket license) to play that music. This is totally different than the Permission to Arrange and the Sync License copyright issues that DCI, BOA, and WGI have to contend with.

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1 hour ago, combia1 said:

Pretty sure this is only talking about the blanket license fees that venues like bars, restaurants, and other organizations pay to play music in their venues. When you go to sporting event and they are playing music on the PA system, or you go to a bar and their is music playing, or you go to the mall and hear music, or pretty much any public or private space and you hear music, then that venue has paid an annual fee (blanket license) to play that music. This is totally different than the Permission to Arrange and the Sync License copyright issues that DCI, BOA, and WGI have to contend with.

Yes. Totally separate sides of the law.

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