Businesses say the rising music licensing costs have become overwhelming, and some question whether it’s even worth playing ...

SESAC, which stands for the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, removes some music from YouTube when contracts expire or are not renewed.

SESAC’s performance license rates for the 2023-2026 period will have a blanket fee of 0.2824% of revenue, a 10.4% increase from the prior rate.

SESAC is the latest performance rights organization to garner interest from financial investors, as owner Blackstone fields private equity offers.

Thousands of music videos by hundreds of artists were removed from YouTube after it failed to reach a deal with publishing rights organization SESAC.

How much of a problem is online bootlegging and music file-sharing for artists and the recording industry? NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Trevor Gale, vice president of writer and publisher ...

Songs by Bob Dylan, Adele, Green Day, Burna Boy and many others are unplayable on YouTube due to a legal dispute between the platform and SESAC.

The owners of SESAC — a performing-rights firm that licenses the music of songwriters and publishers and collects royalties when that music is played in public — are looking to sell the firm ...

Songwriters and music publishers have struck a compromise with SESAC that puts the Music Modernization Act back on the fast track to becoming law this year.

But SESAC’s decision to build its new $20 million headquarters for its ever-growing staff of about 140 workers shows that music companies can expand on the Row.

Aug 2 (Reuters) - SESAC, whose clients include Adele, Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, on Friday priced a two-part $560 million bond offering backed by music royalties and licensing agreements ...