If you wish to perform a musical work, you can contact the first entities listed below (Tresona, ASCAP, BMI or SESAC) to secure a license for your use. If you wish to synchronize music with visual images or distribute a musical composition that has been created by someone else, contact the Harry Fox agency for licensing. These entities are linked below.
Users can set up an account and select the songs from their vast database to get the rights to use/arrange. Many of the selections already have automatic approval and amounts.
ASCAP licenses the right to perform songs and musical works created and owned by the songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers who are ASCAP members.
BMI licenses the right to perform songs and musical works created and owned by more than 375,000 songwriters, composers, and publishers with more than 6.5 million works.
SESAC represents songwriters and publishers and negotiates the rights for having their music performed in public. By securing a license from SESAC, for example, music users (i.e., television and radio stations, auditoriums, restaurants, hotels, theme parks, malls, etc.) can legally play any song in the SESAC repertory.