Jill Scott
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Of course, it would be impractical to monitor all performances in bars, clubs, restaurants and the like. ASCAP licenses tens of thousands of music users, such as these, that do not fall into the ASCAP surveys. The monies collected from these establishments goes into a "general" licensing fund and is paid out to members on the basis of feature performances on radio and all surveyed performances on television.
ASCAP also compensates our writer members for substantial performance activity in media and venues that are not included in our surveys, or whose works have a unique prestige value, through our ASCAPLUS Awards Program (formerly Special Awards).
While ASCAP funds the ASCAPLUS Awards Program, all award determinations are made solely by distinguished members of the music community who are neither members nor employees of ASCAP.
Randy Newman
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These panelists exercise their independent judgement in determining which members shall receive awards and in what amounts. The ASCAPLUS Awards Program is not a contest or a competition whereby any specific work or works are critically evaluated by the panels. It is the activity generated by each writer's catalog (particularly in regard to recent performances) as noted by each member on their Awards application that serves as the primary basis for the panels' determinations. Click here for more information and application materials.
ASCAP is the only performing rights organization with an awards program of this kind. These awards go a long way in encouraging many of our active writers in the early stages of their careers as well as established writers whose main activity is outside of broadcast media. ASCAP has a similar program — the ASCAP International Awards Program — for members of affiliated foreign societies whose works contained in the ASCAP repertory are substantially performed in American venues that are not surveyed.
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