Broadcast Music, Inc., a global leader in music rights management, collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it distributes as royalties to songwriters, composers & music publishers.
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Compulsory License Fees
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Each year, BMI receives royalties from the U.S. Copyright Office for music performed on distant-signal broadcast television stations carried by cable television systems (e.g., superstation WGN-Chicago) and for music performed in broadcast TV programs that are retransmitted by satellite carriers. BMI distributes this money to writers and publishers whose music is in that programming.
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