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Are music license service providers really evil, or is that just some misplaced perception because they are earning a living as they should? Consider that there is a rate of nearly thirty percent copyright infringement on the internet, a very difficult platform to police. Just imagine what the total percent of violations would be if there were no legal teams to act as liaison between the creators and the users.

There would most likely be no wide ranged broadcast of music, because musicians would starve.

A music licensing company is a very powerful commodity for any composer who is trying to eke out a living in the music world. Through hard fought battles in many courts around the world, licensing agents have been able to structure a fair and legal means to make sure the owners of created music get paid for their efforts.

Think about the legal teams that need to be retained by licensing agencies, just to make sure the forms and paperwork are current.

Since licensing agents get paid when the musician gets paid, there is the natural act of completive marketing and promotion of any creative piece under the licenses the issue and hold. Two of the largest and better known groups are ASCAP and BMI. Both groups offer blanket licenses that cover the approximate 4 million strong song library each houses

Technically, ownership is protected as soon as the composition is recorded to a hard media such as paper, audio listening tape, or digital recording. But the proper and safest way to protect the ownership is to submit the details to the copyright office and make proof of ownership publicly official.

Having a music license is the soundest way to back that copyright up and secure a means to be paid for any use of a musician’s creative product.