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Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 22.4 million musical works.
Broadcast Music Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., 441 U.S. 1 (1979), was an important antitrust case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] It examined a complaint brought by CBS affiliates that the method in which broadcast companies determine fees for the issuance of blanket licenses (the permission to use a set of copyrighted media materials) was a violation of the ...
Performance rights organization BMI has filed a rate court action against SiriusXM in an attempt to provide its artists “fair and appropriate fees” for music licensing deals with the radio ...
In 1940, when ASCAP tried to double its license fees again, radio broadcasters formed a boycott of ASCAP and founded a competing royalty agency, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). During a ten-month period lasting from January 1 to October 29, 1941, no music licensed by ASCAP (1,250,000 songs) was broadcast on NBC and CBS radio stations.
BMI has over 100 years of history as a standard health assessment tool. But while BMI can tell you where your weight falls compared to what’s “normal,” it fails to account for other critical ...
Between 1931 and 1939, ASCAP increased royalty rates charged to broadcasters some 448%. [3]In 1940, when ASCAP tried to double its license fees, radio broadcasters prepared to resist their demands by enforcing a boycott of ASCAP, [4] and inaugurating a competing royalty agency, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). [5]
What They Measure: BMI is a simple calculation based on height and weight, while body fat percentage specifically measures the amount of fat relative to total body weight.
The validity of PROs was challenged in the 1979 anti-trust suit of Broadcast Music, Inc. v. CBS, Inc. [24] in which CBS BMI and said that the tariffs decided by BMI were for blanket licenses and therefore amounted to price fixing. The court held in this case that the actions of PROs were not anti competitive as there was no bar on obtaining ...