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Oct 9, 2026
King of PodcastsHOST
So the royalty impasse.
King of PodcastsHOST
Terrestrial radio pays performance royalties to publishing societies, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC.
King of PodcastsHOST
Go to Music Exchange, whatever, and they play a fat, p- pay a flat fee.
King of PodcastsHOST
The artists who perform the song and the labels who fund the studio masters get nothing from AM/FM radio airplay under US copyright law.
King of PodcastsHOST
Now, keep this in mind.
King of PodcastsHOST
I've said this before as well.
King of PodcastsHOST
The US, North Korea, Iran, and China hold this kind of rule, where the studio masters and the societies like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC will get, will go ahead and get the royalties and dole them out, but the artists don't get anything.
King of PodcastsHOST
And I think that the UK, they actually pay the artists.
Lynn LoweGUEST
... songs in that catalog.
Lynn LoweGUEST
But that doesn't mean the other 7,000 don't have a chance to get recorded, so we still have to index them at BMI, ASCAP, SESAC.
Betsy BrumleyHOST
Right
Lynn LoweGUEST
You know, here in America.
Lynn LoweGUEST
... not the non-interactive part of the stream.
Betsy BrumleyHOST
[laughs]
Lynn LoweGUEST
And so the non-interactive part of the stream comes from other places that, where they have contracts for those companies to pay, and then the performance side comes from the PRO, which is ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR-
Betsy BrumleyHOST
GMR
Lyd ShawHOST
...
Lyd ShawHOST
SESAC.
Marc MatthewsGUEST
Yeah.
Lyd ShawHOST
Those would be the ones-
Daniel LewisGUEST
These are still the main modes through which classical composers earn their royalties.
Daniel LewisGUEST
But production music, there was a report by an organization called SESAC.
Daniel LewisGUEST
You've heard of collection societies.
Daniel LewisGUEST
SESAC is like the society for collection societies.
Daniel LewisGUEST
So it gets quite meta.
Daniel LewisGUEST
But they estimated that revenues of music libraries could be put at risk 60% of their revenue by 2028 if things don't materially change.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's handled separately through the performing rights organizations.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
ASCAP, BMI, SESAC.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And this is why bars and clubs have those stickers on the door.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The venue pays a blanket license fee, and that blanket covers live performances of copyrighted songs on the premises.
Hannah DasherGUEST
How did you discover her, though? Because she was in New York singing jingles,
Harold SheddHOST
right? A lady that ran SESAC at the time told me about her.
Harold SheddHOST
And she says, I'm going to do a showcase.
Harold SheddHOST
And she lives in New York.
Benjamin GordonGUEST
Uh, I also think another thing that's important is, as we were talking about with those performance royalty organizations, you can register your works for even things that you're performing yourself that are songs that you own.
Benjamin GordonGUEST
You can still get paid because the live music venues also have to register their venue with BMI and SESAC and ASCAP.
Benjamin GordonGUEST
So even though you're performing your own works, you could still get paid back from those organizations as well for performing them in a live music venue.
Tony SgroHOST
What does the average artist get to keep? So let's say an artist, uh, releases a song.
Mike EtchartHOST
Notes.fm scans metadata like songwriting credits and recording information to find incorrect or missing data.
Jay GilbertHOST
The company cross-checks catalogs against rights databases, including the Mechanical Licensing Collective and SoundExchange, along with PROs, ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI.
Jay GilbertHOST
Once issues are found, Notes.fm can either give artists a list to bring to royalty administrators or help correct the problems directly.
Mike EtchartHOST
Yep.