Should One Co-Writer Have the Power to License a Collaborative Work?

Martin Bandier, Chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV, sent the following letter to the company’s songwriters in Nashville. Bandier urges songwriters to go to the NMPA town hall meeting this week.
The meeting will cover changes being considered in Washington. Bandier says the DOJ is considering introducing 100% licensing for ASCAP and BMI. He says: “This is a complicated subject but it basically means that if either of these PROs controls any part of a song, no matter how small, they would b