What to Expect at This Week's DOJ Workshop on ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees
LeeAnn Rimes, Pharrell and Jon Bon Jovi will deliver virtual speeches for the Justice Department's online workshop on public performance rights over the next two days -- focusing on how movies, bars, restaurants and advertising companies pay to license music. Beginning Tuesday, the free workshop will deal mostly with consent decrees for ASCAP and BMI, referring to 1940s-era rules to protect competition between the performing rights organizations.