Oh yeah, I’m familiar with that, too. That makes more sense. Believe it or not that doesn’t clear the big three for music either, or at least didn’t when I got

Oh yeah, I’m familiar with that, too. That makes more sense. Believe it or not that doesn’t clear the big three for music either, or at least didn’t when I got out of the business a decade ago. But BMI and such have special deals with real radio that would make Internet radio weep, so you’re right it’s better. (Former MD here.) That’s the likely outcome. They’ll probably push for the mechanical video recording and the creative content within it to be different licenses just like music. And then you’ll still have to license the music within it, probably both the recording and the creative. IP structure in complex media is so entwined there won’t be a simple answer here, I’m afraid. I wish it weren’t so. The worst outcome possible would be a lot of creative folks in a television production realizing the distinction between the two music licenses and creating a setup where there is five or six for video (script license, series license, translation license, likeness licenses, blah blah).