Six Is a Magic Number for BMI’s Digital Licensing Center

BMI’s Digital Licensing Center (DLC) is celebrating its sixth anniversary and is maturing at a rapid rate. With nearly 500 websites licensed through the service and 5,000 registered users, the DLC is the music industry’s first fully automated, end-to-end solution for securing a music performance license online. The license allows website to publicly perform all of BMI’s 6.5 million copyrighted works from its more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.
The service was the first complete end-to-end solution launched by a major music industry organization. BMI launched the application in May of 2000, with version 2.0 debuting in 2004 with additional features. In 2006, nearly 200 additional users secured their performing rights license through the DLC.
I believe it is a great thing because the DLC has met its mandate to simplify music copyright licensing because small websites need dedicated resources where htey can license their properties and pay their public performance fees. And I also think that it has helped simplify the licensing process and helped BMI reduce costs associated to this licensing area.
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