Flying an airplane and performing brain surgery (legally!) require one. So does distributing music. What is it? A license! Licenses allow you to legally distribute, cover, and adapt music you don't own or control.

The reality show success of Jeremy Lister's a capella group Street Corner Symphony made a perfect moment for him to release his long-awaited debut album.

On Tuesday, January 25th, ASCAP hosted an invite-only VIP Film Music Breakfast exclusively for Sundance Film Festival filmmakers and their film composers.

In this second edition of our ASCAP Lesson series, the members of The Section Quartet explain their approach to distilling popular songs into dynamic string arrangements. Then they put their words into action by playing their arrangement of Muse's "Time Is Running Out."

Flocks of down-coated, ski hat-capped music lovers packed the room on the first three days of the Sundance ASCAP Music Café in Park City, Utah

Multi-talented songwriter and ASCAP Board member Jimmy Webb has been elected Chairman of the Board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame by its Board of Directors, the organization announced on January 19.

Trent Reznor earns Best Score for The Social Network. PRS members Dido & Rollo Armstrong pick up the Best Song award for "If I Rise" from 127 Hours.

The hit songwriter/producer/musician visited the ASCAP office in L.A. to celebrate the success of the Black Eyed Peas smash "Imma Be," which stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks.