BMI
Type: noun, acronym
Pronunciation: /B-M-I/ or /bee-em-eye/
Also spelled or known as: B M I, B.M.I., Broadcast Music, Inc., BMI Affiliations
Related: PRO, Performing Rights Organization
What does BMI mean? Broadcast Music Incorporated; A U.S. performing rights organization.
BMI stands for Broadcast Music Incorporated.
BMI is an American performing rights organization that protects its members’ musical copyrights.
BMI licenses public performances and distributes performance royalties to affiliated songwriters, composers, and publishers. BMI tracks performances of their music and collects (and distributes) the fees associated with those performances.
BMI is not a music publisher.
More Performing Rights Organizations (PROs): ASCAP (A.S.C.A.P), SESAC
Example sentence: “What is your BMI info, I’ll enter it in.”
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