American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) In The News

Max Martin wins ASCAP Songwriter of The Year Award for 8th time

Sony/ATV picks up Publisher Of The Year prize

Grooveshark is no more – and says sorry to the music industry

Major labels agree to settle with notorious copyright infringer

Google, Amazon and Pandora join forces to fight music industry over royalty rates

Powerful lobbying group ready to scrap on performance rights and radio

Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year

Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams

Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist

'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo

Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months

Total active listeners fall under 80m people

Irwin Robinson to collect Global Music Publishing award at Midem

All ICMP member organisations were invited to nominate one person or partnership

Former EMI boss Roger Faxon to join Pandora’s Board

Ex-AEG CEO Tim Leiweke also joining controversial radio company