For strip clubs and adult nightclubs that play recorded music, and any club with a DJ

The suit is never the surprise. The letters were.

Cuesheet keeps a licence status for ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and Global Music Rights — needed, not needed with a reason, or undecided — and every letter, call and visit they send, each with an answer-by date. When one has been in touch three times with no current licence, it says plainly that this is how a suit starts.

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Opens in this browser with an invented club already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

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The problem

Four societies, and none of them covers the others’ songs.

A club that plays music to the public needs a licence from each performing-rights organisation whose songs it plays. They write, email, call and send someone in on a Friday night before they sue — and they do sue, strip clubs included. Statutory damages run $750 to $30,000 a song, up to $150,000 if the court finds it wilful.

45+

times BMI says it contacted one venue owner before it sued.

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$750–$30,000

potential exposure per song in an ASCAP infringement suit.

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Strip clubs

named defendants in ASCAP’s infringement suits.

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Will not let a letter be quietly put away.

A contact closes only as answered, with the date and what was said, or filed, with a reason — and a certified letter, a cease and desist or a lawsuit paper can only be answered, never filed. Licences that have lapsed, are unpaid, renew within 60 days or were priced on a smaller room are flagged. There is no override.

How it works

Licences, letters, where we stand

Settle each society

Needed, not needed with the reason, or still to decide. Each licence held, its dates, fee and the room it was priced on.

Log every contact

Letters, emails, calls, visits, invoices and certified mail, each with an answer-by date — 14 days by default.

Read where you stand

Everything that needs the owner, worst first, on one printable page, with what is at stake.

What it will never do

It keeps the register. It does not decide which licences you need.

Cuesheet records what you hold and what they sent. Which societies you need is yours to settle.

No society link.Nothing is looked up or sent. You record the licences and the letters.

No music played.It is a register, not a jukebox.

It is not a lawyer.A lawsuit paper goes to one. Cuesheet is the history you take with you.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per venue

Cheap on purpose. It sits beside licences that cost thousands.

Most clubs

One venue

$9/month

One club that plays music.

All four societies tracked
Answer-by clock on every letter
No filing a certified letter away

One venue, yearly

$90/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One venue
Where we stand, printable
Export for your lawyer

Subscription. Your bank statement says Cuesheet Software. First payment refunded in full on request within 14 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Does one licence cover everything?

No. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and Global Music Rights each represent different songwriters. A licence from one does not cover another’s songs.

Why does the room matter?

Licence fees are priced on capacity and music nights. A licence priced before the mezzanine opened may need reporting.

What does “this is how a suit starts” mean?

Three or more contacts in twelve months from a society you hold no current licence with. It is the pattern before a filing.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the file you wish you had kept.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

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The invented club’s BMI licence has lapsed after four contacts in a year, the last unanswered. SESAC sent a certified letter and there is no SESAC licence. GMR is undecided, and the ASCAP fee was set before the mezzanine opened. Cuesheet puts every one at the top.

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