Overview

Music Reports provides strategic consulting services which encompass all aspects of music rights acquisition, license administration, royalty and usage reporting, and business modeling. Frequently, the company provides clients with a comprehensive analysis of their business activities and the music rights which are implicated by those activities. The company then designs licensing and reporting strategies for its clients which are tailored to their specific needs. These strategies are intended to help clients obtain and manage all of the rights that they need: as fast as possible, at the lowest possible administrative cost and with the least amount of risk possible. Typically, Music Reports provides strategic consulting services in close consultation with, and under the guidance of, client attorneys.

Qualifications

Music Reports is well-qualified to provide strategic consulting services. The senior management of the company includes a number of distinguished and experienced music copyright attorneys and licensing professionals. Due to the diversity of its client base, Music Reports aggregates a tremendous amount of institutional knowledge regarding music licensing best practices, precedents, and royalty rates. The company regularly participates in U.S. Copyright Royalty Board proceedings to establish the rates and terms of statutory music licenses. Staff members of the company are frequently called upon to provide expert testimony in U.S. federal rates court trials involving the U.S. performing rights societies, as well as proceedings before the European Commission regarding pan-territorial music licensing reform. The company routinely advises its clients with respect to the drafting of music Copyright-related legislation and regulation. The senior management of the company maintains deep relationships with the business affairs and licensing executives at the major and indie record labels, the major music publishers, the U.S. music rights societies (such as the Harry Fox Agency, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange), the foreign music rights societies (such as CMRRA and SOCAN in Canada, the Alliance for Music in the U.K, SACEM in France, Buma-Stemra in the Netherlands, GEMA in Germany, etc) and the trade associations for the foregoing entities (such as the RIAA, the NMPA, and CISAC).