| Sumario: | The article reports that song writers banded together in business associations, which were formed for the commercial exploitation of the peculiar copyright privilege, which covers public performance. It states that the performing or performance right are called performing right societies, and the dominant performing right society in the U.S. is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). It mentions that ASCAP is a licensing organization confined to the licensing of, and collection of royalties for, a single from the sub-varieties of copyright. It presents that the right to perform copyrighted music publicly for profit, is separate from the copyright in the printed sheet music.
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