United States · Performance
ASCAP
What counts as black box here
No set-aside for unregistered or unidentified shares; a later registration may adjust a subsequent distribution. Disputes can be held, and abandoned known-payee royalties go to state unclaimed-property authorities.
Mini box
Lit: compartments used and exit chute(s), plus the bypass lane.
Its rules
A US performing-rights organisation: its own rules and consent decrees decide how unidentified performance money is allocated.
- Rights it handles
- Performance
- Holds a pool?
- No
- Evidence level
- Official policy only
How it distributes money
How often matched money is paid out, and how members can find what's theirs.
- Payment cadence
- Not publicly disclosed
- Data maturity tier
- C
How it handles unresolved royalties
How long money waits, when the clock starts, and where it goes if nobody claims it.
- Holding clock
- None for unmatched usage; state dormancy periods for payee funds
- Clock starts
- State law (payee funds)
- Exit chute
- Adjustments + state escheatment
- Late claims after expiry
- Not publicly disclosed
Lifecycle path
- 1
Collect & survey
Licence fees and usage surveys
- 2
No set-aside
Unidentified shares absorbed by the distribution
- 3
Adjust
Later registrations adjusted
Per adjustment policy
- 4
Dispute hold
Held as long as ASCAP deems appropriate
Open-ended
- 5
Escheat
Abandoned payee money to the state
State dormancy
Published figures
No balance publicly disclosed (not the same as zero)