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SESAC

SESAC Sponsors GRAMMYs on the Hill

SESAC Celebrates Billboard Music Awards Nominations

SESAC Celebrates Daytime Emmy® Awards Nominations

SESAC Affiliate Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” Added to National Recording Registry

SESAC Affiliate Neil Diamond To Receive Prestigious Johnny Mercer Award

ASCAP

Their First Broadway Experience!

Special New Year Discount on the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO

Special Holiday Discount on the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO

BMI

Events: Coachella Music Festival: Indio, CA

Events: Coachella Music Festival: Indio, CA

News: BMI Helps USC Students Learn the Art of Scoring

News: BMI Helps Restaurant Leadership Conference Celebrate 20th Anniversary

Events: Coachella Music Festival: Indio, CA

Digital Music News

Comment on Gibson Guitar Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 116 Years In Business by DennyA

Comment on Gibson Guitar Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 116 Years In Business by trainor

Comment on Gibson Guitar Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 116 Years In Business by trainor

Comment on Gibson Guitar Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 116 Years In Business by trainor

Comment on Gibson Guitar Faces Imminent Bankruptcy After 116 Years In Business by Dan

Billboard Biz

Calvin Harris Lands Ninth No. 1 U.K. Single With 'One Kiss'

Kanye West Is Producing a New Nas Album, Due in June

'Dreamgirls' Beyonce & Jennifer Hudson Reunite at Coachella

Kehlani Answers Questions About Her Sexuality on Twitter: 'I'm Queer'

Beyonce & Solange Hilariously Tumble During Coachella Dance Break: Watch

US Copyright Office

U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 714

U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 713

U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 712

U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 711

U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 710

• View Webcasts of Panels – One of the many benefits of membership is our archive of past panels. If you missed the LA March panel with the Brabecs, "MUSIC, MONEY AND SUCCESS; What's It All Worth?", Members can view the video, as well as all archives, here. All are welcome to view a sampling of video clips here. 
• If you haven't already, make sure to register for our 2nd annual AIMP Indie Music Publishing Summit on June 12th, expanded to a full day this year.  We'll see you in NY!
• The House Judiciary Committee unanimously passes the Music Modernization Act as it moves on to the full House.  
• Score: The Podcast, a podcast devoted to film, TV and video game composers, launched April 3 with composer John Debney.  The team behind 2017’s Score: A Film Music Documentary created the podcast, which will be hosted by Robert Kraft, former president of Fox Music, and journalist Kenny Holmes.
• Tresóna and Orchestras announce a landmark industry agreement covering custom arrangements and sheet music rentals.  Read more about it here.  
• Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours,’ Run-DMC’s ‘Raising Hell,’ ‘My Girl,’ and more are named to the Library of Congress’ Registry.  
• ASCAP - Multi-Platinum hitmaker Desmond Child is to be honored with the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award at the April 23rd ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles.    
• BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill wrote an op-ed in Billboard applauding the Department of Justice’s decision not to appeal the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s ruling on fractional licensing.  
• SESAC affiliate Neil Diamond is to receive the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award, as announced by the The Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization’s highest honor, at the 49th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on June 14th.  
• SACEM has announced the launch of a new rights body in Polynesia called SACEM Polynesia.  It will license song rights to broadcasters and public places using music in the region.  
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