{"id":5685,"date":"2015-11-17T06:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/11\/17\/ascap-adds-licensable-share-information-to-promote-greater-transparency-in-public-performance-rights\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:14:21","slug":"ascap-adds-licensable-share-information-to-promote-greater-transparency-in-public-performance-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/11\/17\/ascap-adds-licensable-share-information-to-promote-greater-transparency-in-public-performance-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCAP Adds Licensable Share Information To Promote Greater Transparency In Public Performance Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xfa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/12190889_10156185052805313_2886994241539361506_n.jpg?oh=008ea99e0a8b887dda2b34e3cda814c1&amp;oe=56EB6B4D\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"219\" \/><br \/>The American Society of Composers, Authors and  Publishers (ASCAP) announced that it has added new information to its  publicly available online database indicating what percentage share of  public performance rights it represents for each of the more than 10  million musical compositions in the ASCAP repertory. With 555,000  members, ASCAP is the first US public performance rights organization to  go public with licensable share data.   <!--more-->  <br \/> Already the most visited page on the ASCAP website, the ACE Database  (www.ascap.com\/ace) will now include what percentage of fractional  shares to each copyrighted musical composition is &#8220;controlled by ASCAP.&#8221;  The updates will support ASCAP&#8217;s request to the US Department of  Justice for its members to have more flexibility in their ability to  withdraw certain digital rights from the ASCAP repertory by providing a  more complete and transparent picture of the intellectual property  rights represented by ASCAP.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Songwriters and composers depend upon ASCAP to support themselves and  their families. If public performance rights societies are going to  survive and thrive in a global music economy driven by data, then we  must be willing to be fully transparent regarding what shares of songs  we are licensing,&#8221; said ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews. &#8220;ASCAP is willing  to lead the fight for greater transparency in this sector to support  fair market value payments to our songwriter and publisher members and  we urge other stakeholders to follow suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> As part of its ongoing review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees, the  Justice Department is considering whether ASCAP and BMI should be  required to license the songs in their respective repertoires on a 100%  basis, regardless of the percentage of the song their affiliated writers  or publishers actually own or control. ASCAP believes that requiring  100% licensing would negatively affect its songwriter and music  publisher members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: ASCAP<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced that it has added new&#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-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","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=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}