{"id":6376,"date":"2017-01-03T21:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/03\/ascap-and-the-radio-music-license-committee-announce-new-agreement\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:39:55","slug":"ascap-and-the-radio-music-license-committee-announce-new-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/01\/03\/ascap-and-the-radio-music-license-committee-announce-new-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCAP And The Radio Music License Committee Announce New Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/53\/ASCAP_logo_2016.png\/220px-ASCAP_logo_2016.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) and the  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced a  new five-year agreement through 2021 that sets the rates payable by  over 10,000 of America&#8217;s commercial terrestrial radio stations to  publicly perform more than 10.5 million musical works in the ASCAP  repertory. The RMLC represents the vast majority of the nation&#8217;s radio  stations and ASCAP represents 600,000 songwriters, composers and music  publisher members whose songs and compositions comprise the largest  catalog of music played on commercial AM\/FM radio of any performing  rights organization in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> The agreement covers the five-year period 2017 to 2021. It provides for  increases in the rates paid by radio stations to perform music by ASCAP  members via terrestrial, over-the-air broadcasts as well as certain  digital transmissions and, for the first time, expressly affirms the  percentage share of radio performances represented by ASCAP &#8212; at a  level that reflects that ASCAP licenses more performances on broadcast  radio than any other performing rights organization.<\/p>\n<p> ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews commented: &#8220;We are confident that our new  agreement will provide enhanced financial benefits to ASCAP songwriters,  composers and music publishers at a time of tremendous disruption in  the music industry. Reaching a voluntary agreement with the terrestrial  radio industry enables ASCAP to stabilize and grow revenues for our  members while continuing to aggressively advocate for regulatory reform  to modernize the music licensing system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> RMLC Chairman Ed Christian commented: &#8220;This agreement demonstrates how  the creative and music user communities can work together in good faith  to produce an outcome that is positive for both sides. The increase in  ASCAP fees is consistent with ASCAP&#8217;s established spin share on radio.  We are pleased to close this deal ensuring that there will be no  interruption in ASCAP music being performed on American radio at a time  when the music licensing landscape has become increasingly complex.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: <\/span><span class=\"normal\">RMLC<br \/>Image source: <\/span>ASCAP logo as of September 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers&#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-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}