United States · Performance
BMI
What counts as black box here
Fees tied to incomplete or missing usage may be distributed using comparable, sufficiently reported sources. Uncashed payee funds are escheated on roughly 3–5-year state cycles.
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
- International royalties quarterly
- 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 usage; ~3–5 yr state cycles for uncashed funds
- Clock starts
- State law (payee funds)
- Exit chute
- Proxy distribution + state escheatment
- Late claims after expiry
- Not publicly disclosed
Lifecycle path
- 1
Collect
Licence fees and usage
- 2
Proxy
Incomplete usage paid via comparable sources
- 3
Pay
Distribution to writers and publishers
International quarterly
- 4
Escheat
Uncashed payee funds to the state
~3–5 yrs
Published figures
No balance publicly disclosed (not the same as zero)