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BMI
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  • Additional Info:
    Businesses that use music in public places such as restaurants, nightclubs, discos, retail stores, health clubs, amusement parks and many other establishments may be contacted by BMI as an attempt to properly license the business for music performance per US Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code, Sec. 101 et seq). Should a user refuse to enter into a BMI music performance agreement but continues to publicly perform BMI-licensed music without permission, BMI will enforce the public performance right through a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

Overview

BMI

10 Music Square East

Nashville, TN 37203

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BBB Accredited Since: 4/9/1965

Years in Business: 85

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About This Business

With over 77 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a service provider in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in nearly 13 million musical works created and owned by more than 800,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created an open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization at the time to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI’s repertoire span all genres of music.

Products and Services

BMI is a company which holds public performance rights to musical compositions on behalf of approximately 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. Businesses pay a fee to the company for the right to perform, have performed or broadcast music for which BMI represents the copyright holder.

A business which wants to use copyrighted music signs a contract with BMI and becomes a licensee. It can then make an unlimited number of "nondramatic performances" of any BMI music without having to keep records as to the actual music played. Fees charged by BMI to a business depend upon the size of the business. Otherwise, in order to abide by the US copyright law, a business owner would have to negotiate with individual copyright holders to use their music in a place of business.

Business Details

Local BBB:
BBB of Middle Tennessee
BBB File Opened:
5/23/1963
Business Started:
1/1/1940
Business Started Locally:
1/1/1940
Business Incorporated:
1/1/1939
Type of Entity:
Corporation
Alternate Names:
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Business Management:
Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President

Additional Contact Information

Principal Contacts
Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President
Customer Contacts
Mr. Michael O'Neill, CEO
Mr. Stuart Rosen, Senior Vice President
Mr. Bruce Esworthy, CFO
Mr. Michael Steinberg, Executive Vice President
Mr. Kevin Fogarty, Director
Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President
Additional Phone Numbers
Other Phone: (615) 401-2000
Other Phone: (800) 955-5853
Other Phone: (877) 264-2139
Other Phone: (888) 689-5264
Additional Email Addresses
Primary: Email this Business
Additional Websites
Website 1
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License Services, Music Publishing Companies

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