ASCAP and BMI, the two largest performance rights organizations (PROs) in the United States, have joined together to create a task force to combat fraud. The force will address suspicious registrations associated with musical works across their collective management system, which includes over 25 million compositions.
“We’ve been seeing lately that as technology advances, the fraud is supercharged,” explained Mona Simonian, a partner at the entertainment law firm Pryor Cashman at a panel devoted to music fraud at Music Biz earlier this week. The conference, which is held each year in Nashville, discusses an array of music industry issues, and this year, Music Biz devoted a series of
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