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Publishing and Royalties 101 continued:
The Nuts and Bolts of Songwriting Income
PART TWO:
PERFORMANCE RIGHTS SOCIETIES: ASCAP OR BMI?
By Darcie-Nicole Wicknick
Special to MusicBizAdvice.com
HOW DO I REGISTER MY SONGS WITH A PERFORMANCE RIGHTS SOCIETY?
After you become a member, you will need to register your song titles. Both ASCAP and BMI
offer this service online. You indicate with whom you wrote the song and the date of
copyright (unless pending file number assignment, then you can select "copyright
pending") and the Copyright File Number with the Library of Congress.
This process has recently become easier now that the Library of Congress has an online
record of your files. For your own convenience, make note of song titles that you file
under a main title, and the date. This will help you allocate the appropriate PAU
(Performance Arts) registration number to your title registration with your performance
rights society of choice. (You can find this information at http://www.loc.gov/copyright and select Search
Records and then select BOOKS, MUSIC, et al. on the far left tab in the center of the
page.)
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