Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Mariah Carey, and other artists just had their music videos pulled from YouTube. But why? Well, it all appears to be tied to the performing rights organization SESAC—not JAY-Z ...

As performance rights organizations and former rivals ASCAP and BMI forge a partnership to create a comprehensive database of musical works from their combined repertories, one artist whose ...

SESAC is a group that is supposed to support songwriters, but many say they're doing the exact opposite by proposing an amendment that could kill the Music Modernization Act. It's a complex topic: ...

Meredith Corporation, E.W. Scripps Company and Hoak Media Corporation are leading a class action suit against performance rights organization SESAC, alleging anti-competitive behavior in the licensing ...

Performing rights organizations (PROs) are entities that issue licenses to, and collect royalties from, television stations and other parties who wish to perform or broadcast copyrighted musical ...

The Music Modernization Act, the most sweeping business copyright reform legislation proposed in generations, has now moved closer to becoming law. On Thursday afternoon, performing rights ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A Nashville-based music-licensing company monopolizes the rights to tens of thousands of songs, forcing radio stations to pay "supracompetitive prices" for a blanket license, a ...

A new license agreement that sets the rates payable by the majority of the nation’s commercially licensed AM and FM radio stations to publicly perform works in the SESAC repertory has been inked by ...

Lawmakers respond to broadcasters' complaints. By Billboard Staff SESAC was in the cross hairs of a Congressional oversight hearing panel today (May 11), as lawmakers responded to complaints from ...

SESAC was in the cross hairs of a Congressional oversight hearing panel May 11, as lawmakers responded to complaints from broadcasters that when dealing with performing right organizations (PROs)… By ...