What is the Difference Between ASCAP vs BMI vs SESAC? Music Business by da jack hayford - August 13, 2016May 28, 20230 All Performance Rights Organizations ("P.R.O.s") do essentially the same job. They license the work of writers, particularly songwriters, for commercial use. They all use relatively the same methods to calculate and pay royalties to the copyright owners (writers and publishers) on the public performance of their works on radio, television,