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BMI Upgrades Online Catalog Management System for Music Publishers & Songwriters
BMI has launched of multiple updates to its award-winning website, BMI.com, that will provide expanded access to business services for its music publishers, songwriters, composers and licensees. Features now available to registered users include: User management center that provides comprehensive control and access for registered and approved users. The User Manager can specify which level of access individual, registered users can be granted for…
From News, posted 10.05.09
Ringback Tone Sales To Surpass $235 Million in 2009
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From News, posted 3.31.09
Pandora Radio Receives Visit from BMI Songwriters
On October 7, the BMI Government Relations department launched its Business Educational Initiative with a visit to Pandora, where the executives and staff were treated to a performance by BMI singer/songwriters Alissa Moreno and Fred Smith. Accompanying the performers were BMI executives Fred Cannon, Richard Conlon and Myles Lewis. The visit also included an informative sitdown with Pandora President Joe Kennedy and Digital Media…
From News, posted 11.11.08
Symposium Focuses on Copyright Collections in the Digital Age
Songwriters’ and composers’ interests took center stage at the Library of Congress on October 27 to inform Capitol Hill staff and the policy community why strong champions of creators’ rights are needed in the Digital Age. A panel of academics, government officials, composers, and music industry representatives gathered for a Washington summit organized by The George Washington University Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Program and Creative and Innovative Economy Center.…
From News, posted 10.28.08
BMI Sponsors Digital Music Forum West
BMI was a proud sponsor of the Digital Music Forum West, which took place October 2 & 3 at The Hollywood Roosevelt. BMI participated in the Digital Rights and Clearance panel, moderated by David Oxenford, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. BMI Vice President, New Media & Strategic Development, Richard Conlon was one of six panelists on hand to discuss the clearance rights issues for digital music licenses.
From News, posted 10.14.08
Ringback Tones Lead Mobile Music Market Growth in ’08
BMI has released its annual mobile music market projections for 2008 and figures for 2007, projecting that ringback tones will surpass $210 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2008, up 50% from BMI’s 2007 market estimate of $140 million. A ringback tone is a musical work that is performed to the caller when they place a call to a participating mobile subscriber. BMI also predicted that the…
From News, posted 3.27.08
James Blunt Receives BMI London Internet Award
BMI’s Nick Robinson recently presented singer/songwriter James Blunt with his 2007 BMI Internet Award for the song “You’re Beautiful,” co-written with Amanda Ghost and Sacha Skarbek. “You’re Beautiful” received the most plays on BMI-licensed websites for the past year and is the first song to receive this honor at BMI’s London Awards, held October 16 at the Dorchester Hotel. Blunt was also presented with two BMI Pop…
From News, posted 11.20.07
T-Pain Nabs Urban Ringtone Award
BMI songwriter T-Pain was presented with the BMI Urban Ringtone of the Year Award for co-penning the hit “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper).” The award was presented at the 2007 BMI Urban Music Awards, held September 7 in the Zumanity Theater at the New York, New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The gala saluted the world’s premier r&b, rap and hip-hop songwriters, producers and…
From News, posted 10.08.07
BMI Projects Downturn in 2007 Ringtone Sales
Ringbacks To Generate $65 Million in Retail Revenues BMI has released its annual projection for U.S. ringtone sales and for the first time released a U.S. ringback tone market projection for 2007, estimating that the 2007 music ringtone market will dip to $550 million in retail sales, down $50 million from calendar year 2006. BMI pegged the market at $600 million in calendar year 2006, $500 million in 2005, $245…
From News, posted 3.27.07
Music 2.0 Panel Covers Your Assets
BMI's Richard Conlon spoke on the "Covering Your (Musical) Assets" panel at the recent Music 2.0 Conference held last month in Los Angeles. Other panelists included moderator Eric German, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp; Jamie Perlman, Director, Business Development, SNOCAP; Marc Morgenstern, VP, Rights Holder Relations & Music Sales, Navio; Bruce Davis, CEO, Digimarc; and Albhy Galuten, VP, Digital Media Technology, Sony Corporation of America. Panelists discussed…
From News, posted 3.05.07
Philippine Society Hosts CISAC Online Experts Conference
Mon Del Rosario, President of FILSCAP, the Philippine performing right society, recently hosted a BIEM/CISAC "Online Experts" meeting in Manila, chaired by BIEM's Bryan Lam. Rights societies from territories around the world, including Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Australia participated, with BMI's Richard Conlon representing U.S. performing right interests. The purpose of the meeting was to share approaches to licensing the new media and to discuss business solutions to…
From News, posted 3.05.07
Digital Licensing Center Hits User and Revenue Benchmarks
BMI's Digital Licensing Center (DLC), the music industry's first fully automated end-to-end solution for licensing copyrights online, celebrated its sixth full year of operation in December. The DLC was created to make it easy for small webcasters to secure public performance rights online. The tool, which initially beta-launched in May 2000, was completely redesigned in 2004 with additional features. DLC royalty revenues for 2006 were up 76% versus 2005, while…
From News, posted 3.05.07
BMI and SpiralFrog Complete Licensing Agreement
BMI has announced that it has completed a licensing agreement with broadband entertainment network SpiralFrog, a downloadable music website based on an advertising revenue model that will launch in early 2007 in the United States. Through its licensing agreement with BMI, SpiralFrog is able to legally use the more than 6.5 million musical works represented by BMI. "Songwriters create the musical excitement that…
From News, posted 12.12.06
Digital Music Players Lure Customers, But Need BMI License When Played for Public
With digital music players becoming mainstream around the world, it's only natural that many American bar, nightclub and restaurant owners are welcoming MP3 players into their establishments as an edgy, easy form of entertainment. Since the iPod's introduction in October 2001, Apple has sold more than 70 million of the devices, and the iPod now commands more than a 70 percent share of the U.S. market for digital music players,…
From News, posted 12.12.06
BMI and CCA Finalize WorshipCast License Agreement
BMI and the Church Copyright Administration (CCA), a leader in Christian copyright clearances for six years, have announced a licensing agreement for CCA's Internet license website, WorshipCast License. The licensing agreement allows the CCA to license its members to use BMI's repertoire on its website. The CCA introduced their WorshipCast License on Oct. 1 and it is designed to provide churches a legal right to…
From News, posted 10.25.06
Jazze Pha’s ‘1, 2 Step’ Named BMI Urban Ringtone of the Year
Top 10 Urban Producer Jazze Pha was on hand at the recent BMI Urban Awards to receive the Ringtone of the Year award for his song "1, 2 Step." The Ciara smash, which tallied the most downloads during the awards period, was also named BMI's very first Internet Song of the Year at the company's 2006 Pop Awards.
From News, posted 10.15.06
Southern Sounds Cross Borders on BMI’s Podcast #14
BMI continues to share tomorrow's hottest music today with its groundbreaking "See It Hear First(tm)" new artist podcast series - the first of its kind in the music industry. Available at bmi.com/podcast, BMI podcast #14 savors the rich, musical melting pot brewing in America's South. Artists Between the Trees, The Explorer's Club, Cary Ann Hearst and
From News, posted 9.22.06
BMI Again Posts Record Revenues; $779 Million Is Highest In Industry
BMI this week posted revenues (excluding Landmark Digital Services, LLC) of more than $779 million for its fiscal year 2005-2006, which ended June 30. The figure represents an increase of 7 percent over the previous year, it was announced by Del Bryant, President & CEO of BMI. The revenues resulted in royalties for distribution to BMI-affiliated songwriters, composers and publishers of $676 million, an increase of 8.2…
From News, posted 8.27.06
BMI Podcast #13 Jumps Across the Pond
BMI continues to share tomorrow's hottest music today with its groundbreaking "See It Hear First(tm)" new artist podcast series - the first of its kind in the music industry. Available at bmi.com/podcast, BMI podcast #13 showcases an assorted sampling of pop music from the U.K. Artists the Romance, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Cathead and
From News, posted 8.25.06
Entertainment Meets Technology at Digital Hollywood
BMI was a co-sponsor of the recent Digital Hollywood, the premier entertainment and technology conference in the country, held March 27-30 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. A special pre-show panel entitled "Mobile Music - Business Models - Downloads, Subscriptions & Ringtones," featured BMI's Richard Conlon, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Media Licensing as a panelist. …
From News, posted 4.04.06
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