Dave Althoff Jr wrote:
Frank Townsend (ftownsen@nospam.net) wrote: Copyright enforcement requires action on the part of the copyright holder (which is why it is odd that the RIAA,the BSA, or any other organization which is NOT a copyright holder, would have any business trying to enforce someone else's copyright, but that's another issue altogether...).
The owners of the copyrights have delegated this authority to BSA, this is based on the longstanding arrangement in the music industry ASCAP and BMI. It should be perfectly legal as long as they don't try to enforce copyrights for things they don't have the authority to. I certainly could hire an agent of attorney to go look for violators of my copyrights and pay them any way we agree. BTW BSA also enforces license agreements which are usually much more restrictive than copyrights.