You got a scary letter. Start here.
This site is a free, plain-English translator for the legal demand letters a small business gets when it has no legal department: what this letter is · how serious it really is · what you can do for free today. Nothing here is sold, and no page earns anything from the answer it gives — so there is no reason to scare you, and no reason to tell you it's fine when it isn't. Every claim links to the statute, case, or record it rests on.
Which letter did you get?
A music-licensing letter or call — ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, or GMR
For bars, restaurants, cafés, taprooms, and other venues. Start with what the contact is and what to do, or go straight to how to respond to the letter, the one real exemption (with a self-check screener), or what enforcement actually looks like in court.
More letter types are being built — each launches only after its facts are verified against primary sources, so this list grows one letter type at a time.
How this site works
Every load-bearing claim is checked against the primary source and linked at first mention — how that verification works. The site makes no money: no ads, no affiliate links, no lead generation, nothing sold —the full funding disclosure.