From the zoning, land use and preservation questions looming over Music Row to the licensing, copyright and transparency issues being discussed in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., Nashville-based ...

CMA Awards week is as close to black-tie as Music City gets all year – and Nashville’s country music community picked a perfectly ironic song to honor on opening night. The Walker Hayes hit “Fancy ...

YouTube reached a deal with performing rights organization SESAC on new licensing terms, which will restore music videos for artists that went dark on the platform over the weekend. Songs by Adele, ...

SESAC is a group that is supposed to support songwriters, but many say they're doing the exact opposite by proposing an amendment that could kill the Music Modernization Act. It's a complex topic: ...

The vicious infighting between SESAC/Harry Fox Agency owner Blackstone on one side and two songwriter organization on the other has ended with a compromise that sees the performance rights… By Ed ...

The Music Modernisaction Act has “lost momentum” following amendments proposed by SESAC, according to the Association Of Independent Music Publishers. The US legislative process had been plain sailing ...

The Radio Music License Committee last week lost a skirmish in its lawsuit against SESAC when the judge hearing the case denied the RLMC's request to impose an injunction stopping the performance… By ...

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Leading music rights organization SESAC Holdings (“SESAC” or the “Company”) announced today that private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone (NYSE:BX) have entered into an ...

SESAC on Friday completed its first rate arbitration with the Radio Music Licensing Committee, with the music PRO touting its success in increasing its rate relative to its market share. Even its fees ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A Nashville-based music-licensing company monopolizes the rights to tens of thousands of songs, forcing radio stations to pay "supracompetitive prices" for a blanket license, a ...

Following tension over the Music Modernization Act, performance rights organization SESAC and songwriter groups have reached a compromise that will allow for the legislation’s passage. On August 2, ...