NOTE: When licensing Music On Hold from us, you get what is known as a "Direct License". With a Direct License, performance rights have been paid directly to us, the music publisher. No payments are due to ASCAP or BMI.
These articles are provided for informational purposes ONLY, and do not provide legal advice in any way.
BBB: Music in the Marketplace
Source: Better Business Bureau
License is Needed to Play Copyright Music Over Phone
Source: Houston Chronicle
Are You Legal?
Source: Wallace Meschishnick Clackson Zawada
Hold On: Is That Hold Music Legal?
Source: Connections Magazine
BMI: Music on Hold
Source: Broadcast Music Inc.
ASCAP: Licensing of Business
Source: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
U.S. Copyright Office
Source:U.S Copyright Office.