Sentence examples for rights societies from inspiring English sources

Throughout its history its repertoire and annual receipts have been the largest among performing rights societies.

(The rights societies still represent Sony when it comes to radio, television and other kinds of performances).

The CD's are part of an educational packet that includes information about music schools, high-tech products and performing rights societies.

The performing rights societies are some of the industry's oldest financial engines, and they are trying to adapt to a digitized business that has spread far beyond radio and broadcast television, their bread and butter for decades.

Performing rights societies like Ascap and BMI usually negotiate rates on behalf of publishers, but at the beginning of this year Sony withdrew its digital rights from these groups, forcing licensees like Pandora to deal with Sony directly.

The ruling, by Judge Denise L. Cote of United States District Court in Manhattan, is a blow to music publishers, who have tried to get the best royalty rates for digital music by limiting the extent that performing rights societies like Ascap and Broadcast Music Incorporated represent their songs.

But rock 'n' roll's flower children still wanted the full participatory rights society granted adults.

I'm a member of the Swedish performing rights society, STIM.

In response, broadcasters did not play ASCAP songs; instead they formed a rival performing rights society, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI).

There have been no music videos on YouTube since March 2009, when negotiations broke down between YouTube's parent company Google and Gema, the German authors' rights society.

This rate was paid to a collective rights society, and today, these societies thrive, collecting fees for all sorts of "performances" where musicians and composers get little or no say.