SOCAN Members have an option to choose their U.S. Rep
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Published Online: By Creative Arts Solution Foundation
Date: 22 April 2025.
Article Title: SOCAN Members have an option to choose their U.S. Rep
Author:
Olusola David Ayibiowu
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According to SOCAN Members have an option to choose their US Rep under SOCAN.
So as your selected U.S Rep who will work with SOCAN to collect your royalties on your behalf.
Although, Olusola's had already selected ASCAP as US Rep during the first registration process on SOCAN. But he later saw other benefits in SESAC and he was able to request for a change in the US Rep in SOCAN. And the request was granted after sending messages to members@socan.com.
Hopefully its optional to select your US Rep from ASCAP, BMI, SESAC.
SESAC became the US Rep under the affiliate PRO in SOCAN to collect royalties on behalf of Olusola David Ayibiowu starting from 22nd April 2025 as a performing rights organization.
The SESAC headquarters are located in Nashville and offices in New York. Los Angeles, Atlanta, Maimi and London.
On the hand, SESAC represents Society of European Stage Authors and Composers which was founded by Paul Heinecke, a German immigrant, in New York in 1930. SESAC originally strove to support underrepresented European stage authors and composers with their American performance royalties, hence the original name. Heinecke led the firm until his death in 1972.
Furthermore, in the 1930s, SESAC has helped broadcasters satisfy Federal Communications Commission requirements, in supplying them with gospel recordings. The business evolved beyond gospel recordings and European composers during the 1940s, and in the 1950s SESAC established its electrical transcription service.
In doing so on a monthly basis, SESAC has been able to recorded "transcriptions" of its affiliates and distributed them, on disc, to radio stations across America. Among its transcribed artists were jazz and country performers: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Coleman Hawkins, Chico Hamilton, Jackie Wilson, Chet Atkins, and Hank Garland.
However, as it's original objective diminished in the 1960s,
the company entered other musical genres. Since then, the company has represented a wider range of writers and genres. SESAC's affiliates roster includes Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, The Cars, Robert Johnson, Bryan-Michael Cox, Nate "Danja" Hills, Rush,
Coheed & Cambria, Young Love, The Faint, Rapture, Mariah Carey (left SESAC in 2020 to join ASCAP and Adele (since 2017, formerly was with BMI).
Meanwhile, an article on Wikipedia shows that the company has moved into new headquarters in Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan and opened an office in Nashville, Tennessee in 1964. Six years later, the company began representing songwriters in addition to its traditional business of representing publishers. With a focus on Christian songwriters, the company was an early player in the Contemporary Christian music format. That evolution led the company to move its headquarters to Nashville in 1985.
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