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  7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10007-2140

  
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  9420 Wilshire Blvd Ste 200 Beverly Hills, CA 90212-3169

  
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  1400 S Congress Ave Ste B200 Austin, TX 78704-2497

  
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  10 Music Square East Nashville, TN 37203-4321

  
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  3340 Peachtree Rd NE Ste 570 Atlanta, GA 30326-1059

  

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• Review fromFrank D

  Date: 04/09/2025

  1 star
  I have owed and ran multiple hospitality venues and have numerous experiences with this company (BMI). For the most part even though they are a nuisance and 100% a threatening force of extortion, there is usually a reasonable and fair conclusion when they listen and work with businesses.However that been said I'm currently dealing with an unreasonable bully who will not acknowledge the facts of our business and is solely out to bolster his commission and line his pockets off of the backs of independently run business. The facts I've presented to him are our towns **************** certificate of occupancy that is broken down to individual spaces. The space where our entertainment occurs and what I'm trying to pay for is been disregarded by this individual **** *******. He is also trying to get us to pay for dancing when we are not a dance club nor do we have a dancefloor! When I mentioned we are a seasonal business he did not offer the fact that there is a "discounted adjustment for seasonal occasional use". Only because I know this and have like I said, many years of experience with these "contracts" did I remind him of that. Now all of a sudden it is a thing and in fact ******* very careful when dealing with this individual.

• Review fromEric W

  Date: 01/15/2025

  1 star
  I have been contacted multiple times by the sales team from this company. I have responded professionally and clearly that I am uninterested in their services. They continue to call and harass my staff on our store line and email me in an attempt to brute force a sale. I am asked to speak with supervisors and have been hung up on. Highly recommend finding any other company to use. Specifically Id like to mention ******* **** as the repeated offender in this situation.

• Review fromJerry W

  Date: 02/12/2024

  1 star
  I'm done with fielding these calls and e-mails. They don't stop. Our business is closed and they will not leave us alone. They give the ***** a bad name

• Review fromStephanie J

  Date: 01/31/2024

  1 star
  BMI has harassed ** since the business was sold. They asked for proof of the business being sold, and that was sent to them. They continued to ask for the previous owner and said she was liable. I reminded them of what they told me (business manager) that if we sent proof then the contract was void. The business name remains, and there is a new owner, and now they are harassing the new owner saying she is liable, as am I. I don't think so! They call constantly, email, threaten to the extreme. I don't understand how they are allowed to get away with this.THIS WOULD BE 0 STARS IF IT WAS AN OPTION!

• Review fromLeonard H

  Date: 12/20/2023

  1 star
  I am with the American Legion and have had a contract with BMI giving us a license to play copyright ********************. Our bar and restaurant patrons enjoy the music, 3 nights a week and never pay a cover charge to listen to the music. I received an invoice from BMI to extend my contract from November 30, 2023 to November 30, ****. I asked them to send me a copy of our last contract. I received a contract beginning December 1, 2014 to November 30, 2015. I requested a new contract to cover this new time period that they invoiced me. They have ignored my request. What risk do I have with the copyright law for playing music without this contract.

• Review fromKeith A

  Date: 12/15/2023

  1 star
  Extortion at its finest. Legal robbery. Caused more businesses to go out of business than the pandemic.

• Review fromMaryann J

  Date: 10/12/2023

  1 star
  Im done with fielding these calls and e-mails. They dont stop. They even tried to charge us through COVID when my business had to be closed for 6 months by state order. I do not use music they cover anyway. They need to stop- I returned phone calls and wouldnt hear back from them for weeks. Not a legit system at all.

• Review fromMelissa S

  Date: 10/06/2023

  1 star
  Non-stop calls and pushy trying to force you to pay for an additional license from them for ******************** that a karaoke guy, who is licensed separately, is playing through his own speakers. They are also based in ********* which is hundreds of miles away. They have no idea what we are playing. When I told him to send me a list of all the songs under the copyright so we wouldn't send me the list. He said that there are 1.3 million songs. I said send them anyway. He wouldn't. He then said he didn't want us to stop playing the songs, just blindly pay them for a license, I guess just in case we are breaking the law. What????? I asked if he had been to our business and had heard us playing something. He said it is impossible for them to go to all of the businesses so they just call and tell you any songs they represent are breaking the law. I asked him if a customer was in the bathroom singing a song on their song list, would that be breaking the law? He said yes. These people are crazy. Then he started to threaten me with the cost of fines if we didn't get their license. I'm just going to wait for the song list.......

• Review fromJuliet M

  Date: 09/05/2023

  1 star
  If I could give ZERO Stars I would. Reading through the comments below I see I am not alone when I say we feel harassed and preyed upon by BMI and their representatives. With Plan and Simple language like "please stop sending emails, calls and texts, we will contact YOU when we are ready" We are still receiving emails etc. At **************** we utilize ASCAP for our music needs. BMI would let us expand however we do not feel we are missing out and need to reward their behavior by signing a contract.Shame on BMI and their predatory practices!!!

• Review fromtodd m

  Date: 03/13/2023

  1 star
  These people are a joke.I fully understand that people should be paid. That's fine.Apparently, what I'm paying (which is perfectly legal based on what the company I use has told me) it's not enough. I have to pay more because someone spends a dollar in my business to play a game.We have no live music. We have no admission fee. We have no DJ and no Karaoke. Etc.I am legal. Doesn't matter that I'm paying the proper fees. I'm not paying "enough."Maybe you should enforce your policies on those who are not paying their fees. Instead of those who are. If your music licensing reps are just trying to help me, why are they paid commissions? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sounds more like debt collectors who will lie for their own benefit. It's not my fault you are allowing business-steaming companies to sell music to us (which includes fees). That's 100% on you for your inability to adapt to a changing world.If you do not think that these companies have not lobbied in their favor (not the artist). Then you're kidding yourself.Imagine having a local broadcast tv in your establishment. A commercial comes on that is playing a song. If your volume is turned up where someone can hear it, you're violating copyright law. Over something you have ZERO control over. Even though that commercial (hopefully) paid their fees to use it. It screws you, you're responsible, so pay us. If you do not think that this is corruption at its finest, then you'd probably believe the earth is flat as well.