Originally Posted by VGeorgie

You've collected as what?

ASCAP will pay a "producer" if the producer is also the music publisher, or the composer, or the song writer. That happens a lot, but doesn't negate the fact that they don't serve the record industry.

ASCAP and BMI have made deals with Web sites for years, but the big ones where the effort was worth a dime. It's always been a volume business. I'm not defending them, but not having an easy mechanism to collect fees for every piss-ant Web site that wants to license music hasn't caused the problem with the music industry and the Internet, especially since the ASCAP/BMI license fee is a fraction of the cost to license the recording itself. You can cover a McCartney-Lennon tune and pay the fee, but try to put a Beatle's song on your Web site.