Music & Film Organizations
ASCAP An American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.
BMI Broadcast Music, Inc. collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members.
SESAC SESAC, Inc. is a performing rights organization with headquarters in Nashville and offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and London.
SOCAN The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada is a Canadian performance rights organisation that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.
NARAS (Grammy) The Recording Academy is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals.
AFTRA An American labor union representing approximately 160,000 film and television principal and background performers, journalists, recording artists and radio personalities worldwide.
SMPTE An organization for motion picture and television engineers. Resources, job opportunities, conference info and information about membership.
AES Professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry.
Harry Fox Agency HFA is the nation's leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry.
Pressing & Duplication
Disc Makers
Disc Makers is the Low Price leader of CD duplication, DVD duplication, DVD & CD manufacturing, CD replication, CD/DVD duplicators, Blu-ray and USB flash.
NTS (Nashville Tape Supply)
From analog tapes to full service duplication/replication and printing.
Oasis CD
CD & DVD duplication, vinyl pressing & more. Oasis is the number one source for eco-friendly CD & DVD packaging options for musicians and filmmakers.
World Media Group
Source for CD and DVD Duplication in Indianapolis, throughout the US and Worldwide.
Databases
Gracenote
Gracenote, Inc. maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio CDs.
Soundscan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information system that tracks sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada.
Nelson Broadcast Data Systems Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems is the world's leading provider of airplay tracking for the entertainment industry.
ISRC The International Standard Recording Code, is the internationally recognized identification tool for sound and music video recordings.
US Copyright US Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material.
Allmusic
An online music guide service website.
