Got to love ASCAP

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.

ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, and then distributes them back to its members as royalties. In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song.

During the last three decades of the 20th century, ASCAP's membership grew to reflect every new development in music, including the funk, punk rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, techno, and grunge music genres. Today, ASCAP remains one of the world's most far-reaching PROs. ASCAP licenses over 11,500 local commercial radio stations, more than 2500 non-commercial radio broadcasters and hundreds of thousands of "general" licensees (bars, restaurants, theme parks, etc.). It maintains reciprocal relationships with nearly 100 foreign PROs across six continents, and licenses billions of public performances worldwide each year. ASCAP was the first U.S. PRO to distribute royalties for performances on the Internet and continues to pursue and secure licenses for websites, digital music providers and other new media.

My producers and artist are members of ASCAP and my company Brook Brovaz Corp is a publishing company under ASCAP. One main reason that I choose this PRO is because they have great programs to help artist. There are numerous programs and grant to give exposure and monetary benefits to upcoming artist. In addition to that ASCAP members have a voice. ASCAP is the only performing rights organization to hold an annual membership meeting during which members have the opportunity to learn about our operation from the president and staff, to ask questions and to voice concerns. ASCAP members also participate in the affairs of the Society by serving on a variety of committees, such as the Symphony and Concert Committee; Latin Music Council; Commercial, Promotional, Announcement (CPA) Advisory Committee; the Board of Review; and others.

I have developed a strategy to interact with upcoming artist and inform them about the benefits of ASCAP and the platforms they offer. We as Brook Brovaz Corp hold events for mixers and showcases to invite people established in the industry to meet artist and upcoming entertainment business owners to network and connect.We also believe in having our voices heard, we meet with both established and upcoming artist to discuss likes and dislikes on things in the music industry. At the conclusion we take these concerns to ASCAP to fight on our behalf and we try to attend the  yearly event to represent our voice and the voices of many artist out there.