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Originally Posted by VGeorgie
ASCAP and BMI collect royalties for composers and music publishers (who publish the lyrics and music), not the record labels. The recorded music is a separate held copyright, and is usually owned by a record company or label, for which ASCAP and BMI do not collect copyright payments.
ASCAP and BMI collect royalties on performances, including covers by other artists. They have tried to collect songwriter royalties for "preview" stubs on Amazon and iTunes, but that's a non-starter, and is only very recent. There are a lot of Websites that are ASCAP/BMI-compliant, and pay a royalty.
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I have collected money from ASCAP for almost 20 years.
ASCAP also pays "producers"; which will be the record company.
If you ever make a hit song and join ASCAP then join as a song writer
and then also join as a producer for the same music.
What you just posted is the flawed reasoning why so many music people
join ASCAP and then only get half the money they are owed.
Thank you.
NEXT!!!!!!!