Music Publishing Podcast

Three months after his first appearance on the show, entertainment/copyright lawyer and MPP Superfriend Marc Ostrow is back to talk some more about Fair Use, with me supplying a few hypothetical situations. But more importantly, Marc lays out the Department of Justice's recent and unexpected ruling that PROs must abandon 70+ years of established industry practice and adopt a 100% Licensing regime, and what that means for you. During the conversation, we covered: A history of ASCAP, BMI, and their consent decrees Rate courts and "reasonable rates" How consent decrees allow new streaming services to operate without paying for a license The differences between the ASCAP & BMI consent decrees How the PROs want their consent decrees to be relaxed to allow for sync and mechanical licensing How the Department of Justice ruled on 100% Licensing rather than addressing long-standing industry concerns An explanation of 100% Licensing vs. Fractional Licensing Who owns what in a collaborative effort "Absent a written