MUSC 160 Introduction to Music Business: Web Sites

Includes the World's Biggest Public Companies and America's Largest Private Companies.

Includes the "Fortune 500" (also known as the "Largest U.S. Corporations", the Global 500, "100 Best Companies to Work For," and more.

The fastest-growing technology companies.

Fastest-growing private companies in America.

50 best U.S. manufacturers.

Ranking of top Minnesota companies, updated each year in April.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a membership association of more than 435,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide.

SESAC was founded in 1930 to serve European composers not adequately represented in the United States.

Musicians (and writers and artists) need to protect their intellectual property.