ASCAP

Revdex.com: I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted] , and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved(I have reached an actual person at ASCAP and they are reporting that my inquiries are under review)I will wait and see if they resolve the matter for now Sincerely, [redacted] ***

Revdex.com: I have reviewed the response made by ASCAP, the business in reference, to complaint ID [redacted] , and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolvedHowever, as I am affiliated with ASCAP, who supposedly represent my best interests, I fail to see why, without confirmation from BMI as to the changes to my work records as requested by me, it simply is not prudent for ASCAP to alter its work records on a permanent basisIt appears, ASCAP will take the word of someone (anyone) at BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc- (who does not represent me) for my work records but not mine Sincerely, [redacted]

At this time, I have been contacted directly by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers regarding complaint ID ***, however my complaint has NOT been
resolved because:
They have not that I know of closed my account they said unless I fill out all of the forms since that they will not close my account my website has been off line for yearsthey never once told me I had too report too them now they want all this information that I just do not have. even thou my
website was off line I continued to pay them every yearfinally because I decided not to restore the karaoke website that I needed too close my account now all of a sudden they want all of this back informationI just don't have any due too my website server crashed and was hacked and they
lost all of the data all of my hard work gone there website forms will not except zero and they have told me this and these forms have nothing to do with a karaoke website so I have no idea what I'm supposed to add everything has to be filled in or it won't go through
I just want this matter over its silly I over paid them way over paid them and they know itplease! please! just close my account you should be thanking me for being so loyal all of these years and paying on time not harrassing me what kind of message is this sending? what I deserve is a thank you and that is real that is just good business
In order for the Revdex.com to appropriately process your response, you MUST answer the question above
Sincerely,
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Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ***, and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved
Sincerely,
Thank You *** ***

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This is the response of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) to the Complaint lodged with the Revdex.com by the Complainant, *** ***. As noted by the Complainant, his website has been licensed by ASCAP to perform copyrighted musical works in the ASCAP repertory. On the basis of the information provided by the Complainant to your office, ASCAP will waive the requirement that the Complainant submit reports of license fees owed for periods after he has shut down his website; terminate the Complainant's ASCAP license; and write off any license fees owed for periods during which Complainant's website was licensed by ASCAP. We assume that this will satisfactorily address the Complaint and enable your office to close your file on this matter
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Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved. (I have reached an actual person at ASCAP and they are reporting that my...

inquiries are under review). I will wait and see if they resolve the matter for now.
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by ASCAP, the business in reference, to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved.
However, as I am affiliated with ASCAP, who supposedly represent my best interests, I fail to see why, without confirmation from BMI as to the changes to my work records as requested by me, it simply is not prudent for ASCAP to alter its work records on a permanent basis.
It appears, ASCAP will take the word of someone (anyone) at BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc. - (who does not represent me) for my work records but not mine.
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Review: I just don't get it I would totally understand ASCAP Actions towards me if I was way behind in paying my bill for their services.

if anything I over paid my girl friend yelled at me one day and said are you stupid close this account. so why am I here you ask? let me explain my self....

I'm not the type person to complain much but sometimes you just need to speak out when something just is not right. because it could help someone else from having to deal with such petty ridiculous treatment from people and big organizations like ASCAP who think that they can just push people around like your nobody like what are you going to do about it? like they are above the law well they are so wrong this whole thing is so dam silly so outrages. just a pure wast of time and if this gets dragged into court will be a big embarrassment for the [redacted] of ASCAP and its Organization. ASCAP is attempting to charge me penalty fees on an account in which we did NOT even receive proper invoicing they never in 8-years requested any reports from me. I called them and told them that I wish to cancel my account the month of Apirl 2014 of this year. that I no longer was in need of their services.

my karaoke website was hacked about 5 years ago and was no longer online anymore and all of the files lost. but I kept paying Ascap fees on time like clock work over 300 dollars each year.

because I kept thinking I was going to bring my karaoke website back online at some point. but sadly I never did my loss not Ascap nothing but pure profit for them. you think they would thank me not continue to send me threatening [redacted]s and phone calls and refusing to close my account..

Anyway so I decided I needed to finally cancel my Ascap account well I was told by Ascap that on the phone that I needed too send them by mail a cancellation letter signed by me that I was no longer in need of their services.

so I did what they asked for like anyone would I thought it was all over but boy I was wrong. the next month and every month since I have requested the cancellation of my Ascap account only until now. I receive in the mail [redacted] of $112.38 and threatening to ruin my credit because they are now saying they need all the missing reports turned in before they are able to close my account.

I swear I never even knew they even had a website matter fact all of these years I never heard one word out of Ascap. except for my yearly billing statment never ever asking for my website reports.

it was not until I tried to cancel my account that they want reports from as far back as 2008 well I don't have this information and they know it they refuse to close my account. they advised me to sign up for thier website and I did if I had known I would have all along been sending in reports I just did not know.

I was just a small karaoke website people sang and recorded some karaoke performances mostly free members. just a few paid for more file space. I made no profit not even enough to pay my hosting bill.

I do not have the information they request and they know it. Ascap please just close my account Ascap you made all the profit not me please just Close my Account. do the right thingDesired Settlement: to just please close my account and erase the $112.38 Debt I don't deserve that kind of treatment from Ascap after all those years of supporting you do the right thing Ascap

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have been contacted directly by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers regarding complaint ID [redacted], however my complaint has NOT been resolved because:

They have not that I know of closed my account they said unless I fill out all of the forms since 2008 that they will not close my account my website has been off line for years. they never once told me I had too report too them now they want all this information that I just do not have. even thou my

website was off line I continued to pay them every year. finally because I decided not to restore the karaoke website that I needed too close my account . now all of a sudden they want all of this back information. I just don't have any due too my website server crashed and was hacked and they

lost all of the data all of my hard work gone . there website forms will not except zero and they have told me this and these forms have nothing to do with a karaoke website so I have no idea what I'm supposed to add everything has to be filled in or it won't go through

I just want this matter over its silly I over paid them way over paid them and they know it. please! please! just close my account you should be thanking me for being so loyal all of these years and paying on time not harrassing me what kind of message is this sending? what I deserve is a thank you and that is real that is just good business.

In order for the Revdex.com to appropriately process your response, you MUST answer the question above.

Sincerely,

Business

Response:

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This is the response of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) to the Complaint lodged with the Revdex.com by the Complainant, [redacted]. As noted by the Complainant, his website has been licensed by ASCAP to perform copyrighted musical works in the ASCAP repertory. On the basis of the information provided by the Complainant to your office, ASCAP will waive the requirement that the Complainant submit reports of license fees owed for periods after he has shut down his website; terminate the Complainant's ASCAP license; and write off any license fees owed for periods during which Complainant's website was licensed by ASCAP. We assume that this will satisfactorily address the Complaint and enable your office to close your file on this matter.

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Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved.

Sincerely,

Thank You [redacted]

Review: ASCAP refuses to remove Chicago Digital Music, a BMI-affiliated company whom I do not know and who has listed itself as co-publisher of 11 instrumentals and 11 songs in both my ASCAP accounts: Martin Howard Samuel – ASCAP Member ID: [redacted] and [redacted] – ASCAP Member ID: [redacted].Desired Settlement: Remove Chicago Digital Music from all 11 songs and 11 instrumentals listed in my ASCAP accounts: Martin Howard Samuel – ASCAP Member ID: [redacted] and [redacted] – ASCAP Member ID: [redacted] and reimburse me for any royalties paid.

Business

Response:

This is ASCAP’s response to the Complaint filed with the Revdex.com by Martin H. Samuel. [redacted], a member of ASCAP, complains that, at least up until now, ASCAP has not acceded to his request to change its records with respect to 22 musical works that he has written. Although this seems a simple request, there are very good reasons – explained below – why ASCAP determined that it was not appropriate to make the changes to its records that [redacted] has requested. Nevertheless, in response to [redacted]’s Complaint, ASCAP is provisionally making the changes to its records requested by [redacted], as described below. By way of background, ASCAP – the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers – is a voluntary membership association organized under New York law. ASCAP functions as a clearinghouse – more than 560,000 writer and publisher members have granted ASCAP a nonexclusive right to license nondramatic performances of their copyrighted musical compositions by those who perform music publicly. On behalf of its members, ASCAP license hundreds of thousands of music users throughout the United States -- the operators of radio and television networks and stations, cable networks and systems, restaurants, lounges, nightclubs, taverns, hotels, background music services and their subscribers, internet music services and many other businesses. The license fees collected are distributed, less operating expenses, to ASCAP’s writer and publisher members as royalties based on ASCAP’s extensive surveys of performances in a wide array of media. In order th at ASCAP may determine who is to be paid royalties for performances by ASCAP’s licensees of works in the ASCAP repertory, it is essential that ASCAP have accurate information as to its members’ musical works, including, among other data, the exact titles of the works and the names of all parties with interests in the works. According to ASCAP’s records, on November **, 2008, [redacted] submitted to ASCAP electronic registrations for 11 works that he had co-written with [redacted], a writer affiliated with Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”), another U.S. performing rights licensing organization. Subsequently, two other entities – Songs To Your Eyes Publishing on March **, 2012, and Chicago Digital Music on August **, 2015 – submitted registration information to ASCAP for the same 11 works originally registered by [redacted], as well as 11 separate registrations for what were called “instrumental” versions of the works originally registered with ASCAP by [redacted]. Following several e-mail exchanges with [redacted], ASCAP’s Repertory staff attempted to reconcile the five sets of work registrations in November 2015, creating work records for each of the 22 separate works showing as the interested parties for each work (and their respective shares ) the following: [redacted] and [redacted], co-authors (each with a 25% share); [redacted] ([redacted] publishing company and an ASCAP member) as one co-publisher (with a 25% share); and Chicago Digital Music (a BMI music publisher affiliate), for itself (with a 12.5% share) and on behalf of Erwin Pitsch Publishing (a foreign publishing entity, also with a 12/5% share), as co-publishers. [redacted] has requested that with respect to all 22 works, the publisher interest corresponding with the interest of his BMI co-writer be changed from “Chicago Digital Music” to “Minstrel Fox Music” (another BMI affiliate); and that ASCAP delete from its records with respect to the 11 instrumental versions of his works the names of the BMI writer and publisher. As both of the changes requested by [redacted] involve affiliates of BMI, ASCAP followed long-standing protocol for dealing with such situations, and wrote to BMI to attempt to confirm that BMI’s affiliates – [redacted] and Chicago Digital Music – were in agreement with the changes requested by [redacted] for the 22 works. To date, ASCAP has yet to receive confirmation from BMI that their affiliates agree that it is appropriate to make the changes to ASCAP’s – and, presumably, BMI’s – work records for the 22 works as requested by [redacted]. Without confirmation from BMI as to the changes to work records as requested by [redacted] – and particularly in the absence of any documentation to support those changes, provided either by [redacted] or anyone else – it simply is not prudent for ASCAP to alter its work records on a permanent basis. Nevertheless, as an accommodation to [redacted], ASCAP is provisionally making the requested changes to its records, and simultaneously advising BMI that it is doing so. However, if BMI or its writer and publisher affiliates subsequently advise that either of the changes to the 22 work records requested by [redacted] are inappropriate and provide documentation to support BMI’s or its affiliates’ positions, ASCAP may need to reverse or modify in some other manner the changes it is now making in response to [redacted]’s Complaint. Finally, in his Complaint [redacted] also asked that ASCAP “reimburse me for any royalties paid.” It is unclear as to whether [redacted] is asking for payment from ASCAP of any royalties to which he may be entitled for performances of any of the 22 works at issue; or whether he believes that, at least for the 11 instrumental versions of the works, his co-writer, [redacted], and the BMI publishers were paid royalties by ASCAP that should have been paid to [redacted]. If [redacted]’s request is for the former, ASCAP’s records show that the royalties he and his publishing company have received from ASCAP for performances of any of the 22 works were correctly calculated. If [redacted]’s request is for royalties that may have been paid to the BMI writer and publisher, ASCAP would not have paid royalties to them in any event, so [redacted] would not be entitled to receive any additional royalties from ASCAP regardless of whether the BMI writer and pu blisher had erroneously been shown as having interests in any of the 11 instrumental versions of the works. If [redacted] has any other questions concerning his royalty payments from ASCAP, he should contact ASCAP Senior Vice President Seth Saltzman by phone ([redacted]) or email ([redacted]).

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by ASCAP, the business in reference, to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved.However, as I am affiliated with ASCAP, who supposedly represent my best interests, I fail to see why, without confirmation from BMI as to the changes to my work records as requested by me, it simply is not prudent for ASCAP to alter its work records on a permanent basis.It appears, ASCAP will take the word of someone (anyone) at BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc. - (who does not represent me) for my work records but not mine.

Sincerely,

Review: I have been messaging ASCAP through their membership service inquiry in order to get works properly linked to my account. I provided work ID numbers and song titles for the 10 songs on 1/**/16. (These works are already in their system by submission of the lead songwriter's management. I am registered as a writer but am not able to link my personal ASCAP account with the works or receive compensation.) The ASCAP website says they will respond to all inquiries between 5-10 business days. That was 17 business days ago. I have since sent numerous inquiries with no response. I have called their member services phone number (###-###-####) on a business day (Tuesday [redacted]) at 11:30am PST and followed the steps of the automated messages, typing in my member number etc. I am placed on hold and then the automated system starts over again. This repeats infinitely. I am never able to speak to anyone or get a response.

TDesired Settlement: I would like to be contacted by the business in any way shape or form, or instructed as to how I'm supposed to complete a seemingly straightforward process given the fact that the works are already in their system, I've provided them with the work ID numbers, and my name is in their system linked to the songs yet that is not visible on my end with my login.

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved. (I have reached an actual person at ASCAP and they are reporting that my inquiries are under review). I will wait and see if they resolve the matter for now.

Sincerely,