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            • BMI

              7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10007-2140

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            • BMI

              10 Music Square East Nashville, TN 37203-4321

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            Businesses that use music in public places such as restaurants, nightclubs, discos, retail stores, health clubs, amusement parks and many other establishments may be contacted by BMI as an attempt to properly license the business for music performance per US Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code, Sec. 101 et seq). Should a user refuse to enter into a BMI music performance agreement but continues to publicly perform BMI-licensed music without permission, BMI will enforce the public performance right through a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
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            Contact Information

            10 Music Square East

            Nashville, TN 37203

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            (212) 220-3032

            Customer Reviews

            1/5

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            Average of 13 Customer Reviews

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            Customer Complaints

            28 complaints closed in last 3 years

            11 complaints closed in last 12 months

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            BBB Rating & Accreditation

            BBB accredited businessA+

            Accredited Since: 4/9/1965

            Years in Business: 84

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            Overview

            With over 77 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a service provider in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in nearly 13 million musical works created and owned by more than 800,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created an open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization at the time to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI’s repertoire span all genres of music.

            Products & Services

            BMI is a company which holds public performance rights to musical compositions on behalf of approximately 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. Businesses pay a fee to the company for the right to perform, have performed or broadcast music for which BMI represents the copyright holder.

            A business which wants to use copyrighted music signs a contract with BMI and becomes a licensee. It can then make an unlimited number of "nondramatic performances" of any BMI music without having to keep records as to the actual music played. Fees charged by BMI to a business depend upon the size of the business. Otherwise, in order to abide by the US copyright law, a business owner would have to negotiate with individual copyright holders to use their music in a place of business.

            Business Details

            Location of This Business
            10 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
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            Headquarters
            7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2140
            BBB File Opened:
            5/23/1963
            Years in Business:
            84
            Business Started:
            1/1/1940
            Business Started Locally:
            1/1/1940
            Business Incorporated:
            1/1/1939
            Accredited Since:
            4/9/1965
            Type of Entity:
            Corporation
            Alternate Business Name
            • Broadcast Music Incorporated
            Business Management
            • Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President
            Contact Information

            Principal

            • Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President

            Customer Contact

            • Mr. Michael O'Neill, CEO
            • Mr. Stuart Rosen, Senior Vice President
            • Mr. Bruce Esworthy, CFO
            • Mr. Michael Steinberg, Executive Vice President
            • Mr. Kevin Fogarty, Director
            • Ms. Pamela Williams, Vice President
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