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

BMI beats Pandora in court to push up royalty rate to 2.5%

2.5% rate secured by collection body

ASCAP hires Clara Kim as General Counsel and EVP

Elizabeth Matthews hires her replacement in role

Paul Williams and Jody Gerson elected onto ASCAP Board

UMPG boss Gerson elected for the first time

‘Shameless’ Pandora set to claw back $1.5m from songwriters with FM buy

KXMZ FM deal looks like it's going through

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