
If you find the title here, you should also find the contact information for the owner. Try searching their databases for a given title, but if you don’t find it at one society, the copyright owner likely belongs to one of the other two. ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC are the main organizations, and members can only belong to one of them. You can often find the contact information for music publishers through performing rights societies, since all professional songwriters and music publishers belong to one of these organizations.


Often, tracking down the owner and successfully contacting them is the most challenging part of getting permission, but a good place to start is with the music publisher or the record company.
