The Department of Justice Refuses to Resolve Issues for Music Creators. ASCAP & BMI Join forces to Fight. Join & Help
ASCAP and BMI Join Forces to Fight the Department of Justice's Interpretation of Their Consent Decrees BMI to Challenge 100% Licensing in Federal Court NEW YORK – (August 4, 2016) ASCAP and BMI, the country’s two leading performing rights organizations (PROs) collectively representing more than one million songwriters, composers and music publishers, have joined forces to fight the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent interpretation of their respective consent decrees and to push for consent decree reform. United in their belief that the DOJ’s decision to mandate 100% licensing will cause unnecessary chaos in the marketplace and place unfair financial burdens and creative constraints on songwriters and composers, the two organizations are pursuing a joint campaign: BMI through litigation and ASCAP through legislative reform. BMI today announced it is taking legal action and has initiated the process to challenge 100% licensing in Federal Court. Concurrently, ASCAP a
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