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ARTICLE · 06 JANUARY 2021

ASCAP And BMI Launch Aggregated Music Data Platform

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Two of the nation's leading performing rights organizations — ASCAP and BMI — joined forces to create a new song data platform called Songview

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Two of the nation's leading performing rights organizations — ASCAP and BMI — joined forces to create a new song data platform called Songview. The platform provides an aggregated,  comprehensive view of copyright ownership and administration shares for more than 20 million musical works. The data is accessible to the public for free on both ASCAP's and BMI's websites.

To help you understand why this is such a nice belated Christmas present from ASCAP and BMI, here's a super quick refresher on public performance rights:

When a song is played publicly (on the radio, online, in a venue, on television, in a commercial), whoever owns the copyright in that composition has to be paid. Copyright holders outsource the administration and oversight of their public performance rights to performance-rights organizations, or PROs, which collect and distribute performance royalties. Entities (including television networks, radio stations, arenas, bars, restaurants, etc)

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