The Question…
Hello Mr. Pritchard,
I read your article on Music Licensing in the latest issue of the Galaris newsletter. My concern is, I am a songwriter/publisher member with BMI. I’ve had several of my mp3 music tracks performed or featured on various podcast productions but I haven’t seen any royalty payments from those performances. All of the songs featured or performed are registered with BMI. I appreciate the exposure but should BMI send me a royalty check for those performance of my music? What am I’m doing wrong? I look forward to your reply.
Thanks
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Lee Pritchard’s Answer…
Hi Gregory
Thank you for your question.
The BMI Internet Music license covers usage of any BMI music in podcasts. Once the podcaster has a license BMI request music usage reports identifying all of the music works used. As I understand it, it is not clear how royalties are calculated and paid out to BMI songwriter / publisher members.
