U.S. Performing Rights Organizations (PRO)
Web Links Performing Rights Organizations located in the United States
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  Link   Sound Exchange
An independent, non-profit performance rights organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for featured recording artists and sound recording copyright owners when their sound recordings
  Link   American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
A membership association of more than 300,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music.
  Link   Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
BMI issues licenses to various users of music - then collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
  Link   SESAC
Represents songwriters and publishers and their right to be compensated for having their music performed in public.