For years, live music fans could stop in at Mad City Coffee in Columbia on a Friday or Saturday night and take in a set or two of rock, folk or improvisational jazz. The 2,000-square-foot ...

Ever since operetta composer Victor Herbert sued Shanley’s restaurant in New York in 1917 to force it to pay for playing his song on a player-piano, songwriters and music publishers have depended on ...

Avoiding the need for a federal rate court to impose an interim music licensing fee schedule for radio stations until a final decision is made by the court, BMI and the Radio Music License Committee ...

The same week as the company completed its merger into “New Sirius,” SiriusXM will be facing another challenge related to its royalty rates. Broadcast Music, Inc, best known as BMI, took legal steps ...

Performance rights organization BMI has filed a rate court action against SiriusXM in an attempt to provide its artists “fair and appropriate fees” for music licensing deals with the radio service. In ...

Midnight Rodeo is facing a federal lawsuit for allegedly allowing performances of copyrighted music while failing to pay the necessary music licensing fees. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of ...

Non-music stations are expected to maintain a 77.5% fee discount, as specific long-form terms are still being finalized. The license will continue covering over-the-air, HD multicasting, and simulcast ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Many of the music venues in the City of Buffalo received an alarming letter from the city in recent days: Pay an amusement license fee or they would be fined. What exactly is an ...

A rodeo bar in Missouri has been hit with a federal lawsuit for playing Nelly, LL Cool J, and others without a paid music license. A bar in Springfield, Missouri, is facing a federal lawsuit for ...