Online Music Distribution Australia

American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers, stands proud that it "protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works" as stated on their web site. However, over the last year or so, many news stories have been released about ASCAP's aggression against everyone from cell phone companies to iTunes to small web sites. These increased aggressions place the musicians in a dangerous position where, rather than embracing technologies changes to further their sales, the artists may be losing their market share by silencing the technology that would promote them. Online Music Distribution Australia ASCAP's first target in their campaign against technology was the cell phone industry, citing the use of songs as ringtones as a public performance of an artist's songs. As a result, ASCAP believed they qualified for a cut in the sale of every ringtone. Please note, th