Bruce Springsteen sells his back catalog to Sony for half a billion dollars

Kind of. My understanding is that venue licenses exclude campaign events. So the campaign needs to negotiate their own ASCAP license. They could definitely choose not to sell one to a specific campaign. Since it comes up almost every election cycle I’m surprised artists and companies haven’t push for more control…but I haven’t followed the artist outrage through the courts and contracts. That pdf does say individual artists can opt out.

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