Matthews commented, “ASCAP and BMI are proactively and voluntarily moving the entire industry a step forward to more accurate, reliable and user-friendly data. The joint database will serve as a foundation that can evolve to include a broader range of music information across the entire industry. The database, which will be publicly available initially via ASCAP’s and BMI’s websites, will feature aggregated information from BMI’s and ASCAP’s repertories and will indicate where other performing rights organizations may have an interest in a musical work. The announcement was made today by Elizabeth Matthews, CEO, ASCAP and Mike O’Neill, President and CEO, BMI.Ī cross functional team of copyright, technical and data experts from BMI and ASCAP began working on the project over one year ago in anticipation of the demand from licensees and the industry for more clarity around ownership shares. Expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2018, the first-of-its-kind database will feature aggregated song ownership data from ASCAP and BMI and offer greater transparency to music users and the industry. New York – (July 26, 2017) - ASCAP and BMI, the nation’s two leading performing rights organizations, have joined forces to create a single, comprehensive database of musical works from their combined repertories that will deliver an authoritative view of ownership shares in the vast majority of music licensed in the United States. ASCAP and BMI are working together to better serve songwriters, publishers, licensees, and the entire music community through a free-market solution that leverages industry expertise and efficiencies.To view the original press release from ASCAP and BMI, please click here or here. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), an outspoken advocate for songwriters and publishers, called it a “substantive step forward in helping modernize the music industry. News of the database has already caught the attention of lawmakers in Washington. Until the joint database is completed, ASCAP’s and BMI’s respective sites will continue to operate as usual. Future phases will improve upon the interactivity of the site and may include the addition of other databases - a possible nod to the nation’s other leading PRO, SESAC. Phase one of the searchable, constantly-updated database will rollout in the fourth quarter of 2018 and include the majority of ASCAP and BMI registered songs. We’re excited by our momentum and the promise of what this database can become in the future.” YouTube, ASCAP to Share Data in First-Ever Voluntary DealīMI president and CEO Mike O’Neill called the proposed database an “important solution,” adding, “We have always advocated for data transparency and supported the need for a user-friendly and comprehensive solution that would benefit music users and music creators alike. While BMI and ASCAP remain fierce competitors in all other regards, we recognize that our combined expertise allows us to create the best solution for our members and the marketplace. With our combined experience, we are best positioned to make faster headway in creating a robust, cost effective market solution to meet the needs of the licensing marketplace.”
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“We believe in a free market with more industry cooperation and alignment on data issues. Together, ASCAP and BMI have the most expertise in building and managing complex copyright ownership databases.
“ASCAP and BMI are proactively and voluntarily moving the entire industry a step forward to more accurate, reliable and user-friendly data,” said ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews in a statement accompanying the announcement. The joint database will have much of the same information already available on the PROs’ existing sites - ASCAP’s Ace Repertory and BMI’s Repertoire Search - including song and composition titles, performing artist info, aggregated shares broken down by societies, unique identifiers like the International Standard Work Codes and IP names and numbers.īoth PROs see an aggregated database as a necessary step toward bringing more clarity around ownership data - as well as a worthy excuse to set aside their usual competitive nature. Work on the database started a year ago, with a team of copyright and tech experts scrutinizing data from each org for errors regarding registrations, share splits, ownership disputes and complications related to international works.
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The joint database, expected to launch in late 2018 on ASCAP’s and BMI’s web sites, will feature aggregated data from both organizations with the goal of making it easier to find out whether another PRO has a share of a musical work. ASCAP and BMI, the two largest performing rights organizations in the U.S., are working together on a single database of musical works in an effort to bolster transparency in the tangled-up world of licensing, it was announced on Wednesday.
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