I've been audited twice by BMI, so what I'm doing is strictly legal. What I paid for legal advice was worth it.
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I'm sorry but that makes absolutely no sense to me. BMI, like ASCAP,
only collects for the performances of music. They had to sell Shazam! because it was violating the terms of their Consent Decree (per the 2012 BMI annual report) — they bought it to listen to the internet and didn't shut down the other parts of it (oops!).
My last day gig was working for ASCAP's legal department. Feel free to back channel me on this. I'm quite curious as to how it happened and what they were trying to get from you.