{"id":4485,"date":"2014-07-16T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/16\/sonyatv-threatens-to-exit-ascap-and-bmi\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T06:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T06:19:36","slug":"sonyatv-threatens-to-exit-ascap-and-bmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/16\/sonyatv-threatens-to-exit-ascap-and-bmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony\/ATV Threatens To Exit ASCAP and BMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/0\/0e\/SonyMusic.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Music publishers Sony\/ATV Music has turned up  the heat in the ongoing battle between major publishers and  both\u00a0ASCAP\u00a0and\u00a0BMI with a letter to its tens of thousands of member  songwriters.\u00a0\u00a0Unless a series of reforms at the performing rights  organizations are implemented,\u00a0Sony\/ATV would consider \u201cthe potential  complete withdrawal of all rights from ASCAP and BMI,\u201d wrote\u00a0Martin N.  Bandier, Sony\/ATV chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Sony is not the only major publisher considering an exit.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Music has been airing similar complaints, and last week  said it would put data for its entire catalog online &#8211; a move that would  make a possible exit from its relationship with the performing rights  organizations much easier.<\/p>\n<p>BMI and ASCAP currently pays out about $2 billion to songrwiters and  publishers each year; and the exit of major publisghers would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/11\/business\/media\/sony-threatens-to-bypass-licensers-in-royalties-battle.html\" target=\"_blank\">major blow<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music publishers Sony\/ATV Music has turned up the heat in the ongoing battle between major&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}