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Nothing on this site is for sale, and no page earns anything from the answer it gives. There are no ads. There are no affiliate links. There are no sponsorships and no paid placements. Nothing here generates leads, and no reader's name, contact information, or venue details are sold or handed to anyone. There are no products, and no donations are solicited. There is no account to create and no page to unlock.

The site is funded by its operator, out of pocket. The only costs are hosting-scale: a domain and server space. No outside party pays for the content, approves it, or has any say in what it concludes.

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This site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or paid by ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, GMR, or any music-licensing or background-music company, and it earns no money from any recommendation.

A page that tells a venue it likely owes nothing earns exactly what a page telling a venue it owes earns: nothing. No advertiser, vendor, referral partner, or law firm is paid when the analysis comes out one way rather than another, and neither is the operator. There is no service sold on the back of a conclusion, and no commission attached to any recommendation.

What Happens to Your Answers

The self-check tools on this site, including the exemption screener, run entirely in the browser. Answers entered into them are not transmitted to a server, not stored, and not sold. Nothing typed into a tool leaves the device it was typed on, so there is no saved record of a venue’s setup for anyone to request, subpoena, or buy. The tools decode the statute and apply it to a general situation; the result stays with the reader.

What the Site Gets Out of It

The return is use. A reader who leaves with the correct answer, and a published record that holds up when checked against the statutes and cases it cites, are the whole of what the work is for. No fee, referral, or future business is banked on any of it.

Where to Go Next

How the legal claims on this site are checked against their sources is described on the methodology page. For the main guidance on what to do when a performing rights organization sends a letter or calls, see what to do when a PRO contacts you.