Can Foreigners Join ASCAP/BMI?

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[ibsenproducer]

I am from Venezuela, for register me with ASCAP (2015), i contact directly to ASCAP for join, They asked me for the W-8BEN because i am outside of USA. i think if you contact to your City PRO, they will want sign with him, in the case of Venezuela with more reasons.

[petecolorado]

Thank you for the information. This is much appreciated.

[EtherealDawnOfficial]

A question. Do i need to use Bmi(stim =swedish version) is it still vaild if for example you sign contract with a sync agent?
I'm a little bit confused about it.
For example if you register your song on Bmi(stim). Can it still be synced with an agent?

Regards
Marcus

[my_memento]

How would BMI transfer the money to foreign users? are they going to mail a cheque instead of wiring it?

[DoartYT]

Do I need to talk to the PRO of my country even if I'm not signed to them?

[urbbanq]

Hi Jesse, thank you for everything !

I would have a small question.. if is possible


I am part of a PRO in Europe, and on BMI site it says that they represent aswell my PRO into the US territory. And makes me think.. do I really need to sign up with BMI also? Because I need to complete a W8 BEN form what says that are 30% of foreigner taxes.



What makes me arrive to the conclusion that, if the payment is made directly between PROs will be way easy for me to not deal with that kind of paperwork. Can you correct me please?



Thank you in advance for your precious time kind sir !
Have a good day

[DamienAlter]

What if I made a mistake of showing up on the BMI website and registering and not being a US citizen?

[emilienthevenin]

I signed up to BMI as a foreigner but I see that there is a beholding of 30% because of tax, is that correct? It seems ridiculously high like if you earn 1000 usd you end up with 700 usd how is that possible... wtf...

[ryanharrison]

Hi Jesse, If my PRO let's me add a US representative on my PRO website (canadian) would that be basically work the same registering with a US PRO?

[alessiopeck]

What about if I'm registered to PRS (UK) as a songwriter but I wanna register with BMI (US) as a publisher? Reason being, MCPS (the publisher side of PRS in the UK) charges £500 to register as publisher while BMI only charges $150. Plus, my music is being used in the USA.

[D-a-n-c-e--For--Life]

Hi There.
I'm from Slovakia, but now I'm living in England. Here I've got a job & music doing in my spare time. But deejaying, mixing & production, want to do like profession in the near future.
I just getting started with deejaying & also production of music.
I decided to affiliate with BMI. It doesn't matter what'd you think.
here's the Question :
Do I have to contact PRS , if I never signed contract with them, because you didn't mention about that. But I think I don't need.
if I never signed a contract with PRS, and also I never signed a contract with other organizations, I do not need to contact them.
Am I right?
Have a great day!

[andor]

Glad I found this video, so coming from Toronto Canada and never having any beforehand relationships/registrations, would I still have to contact my country's PRO?

Also, would I have to join both organizations (BMI & SOCAN *Canada*) if I wish to receive royalties from both US & Canadian platforms? Because I'm assuming the directories are all US based... Thanks in advance, you are appreciated

[geraldopereirajunior]

Thanks for your video! Your channel is awesome.
You think the libraries prefer composers associate with BMI and ASCAP rather than a PRO from another country? Like, I contact my local PRO in Brazil and they told me that would be better to associate with them, once I'm correnctly living in Brazil, but I assume that they said that just so I can sign up with them.
Libraries really don't care about which PRO you are associate to or do they have a preference for the PRO from the country they are too?

[dokkeallah]

Hello bro am a singer and songwriter from Senegal Africa. Am working with an American producer and publisher. So am about to open my BMI account so I wanted to know which kind of form tax should I apply? Please I need your help

[dedebellavita]

I'm from italy, which taxes for bmi should i choose ?