IMJV invited many CMOs like SGAE (Spain),[2] BMI (USA) and Harry Fox Agency, but for one reason or another many organizations did not join.
Problems started to rise because IMJV was a way for STEMRA to move around employees they could not fire because of the laws in Holland at the time.
[6] This database had representatives from publishing houses, record labels, Google, iTunes, Monifone, and had a total of 13 CMO's: APRA (Australasia), ASCAP, BMI, BUMA, GEMA, PRS, STIM (Sweden), SACEM (France), SOCAN (Canada), SABAM (Belgium), SGAE, SIAE (Italy) and UBC (Brazil).
[8] The Transparency of Music License Ownership Act bill was introduced to the United States House of Representatives on July 20, 2017, by Jim Sensenbrenner and Suzan DelBene.
[9] The opposition against this bill believes that the legislation would limit the ability for copyright owners to sue for infringement.
[10] On July 26, 2017, ASCAP and BMI announced a joint database between both organizations, a project that has been in the works for the past year.
[12] House Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, among others in the industry, have suggested ASCAP and BMI cannot be trusted because of their past withdrawing from the GRD causing it to collapse.
RIAA and NMPA said they purposely excluded ASCAP and BMI because they believed inviting them would cause a hindrance to the overall goal.
[15] At the same time, publishers in the music industry have expressed doubt about the ability of RIAA and NMPA to create a database without any CMOs.