[Fmpro] ACE Title Search (ASCAP) (Les Hurdle)

[Claude Castonguay]

Hi Mark,

i'm a member of SPEDIDAM in France, i've been receiving performer's  
royalties since 1994 from them mainly as a musician playing on  
different records. I've been trying to get them to accept exactly  
what your post mentions, i.e. being paid for the keyboeard playing  
part of the electronic scores that i produce as a composer and more  
often than i would prefer, the only musician playing on the  
soundtrack...

They say that i'm entitled to performer's rights for these TV series  
but they are asking for so many proofs that i'm actually playing the  
parts... Now how can i prove this? They have all these french forms  
that do not apply to our North American bureaucracy, AFM contracts  
don't mean much to them etc... Get the picture?

I've been sending them all sorts of documents for the last 3 or 4  
years and i'm still waiting for answers. Very frustrating endeavour  
indeed. Any other non-French nationals have experience with SPEDIDAM  
on this list?

Maybe SACEM is different but if they are as fussy and slow as  
SPEDIDAM i would think twice before joining SACEM directly as it has  
been suggested many times on the list.

Best,

Claude
On 06-07-13, at 17:27, Mark Northam wrote:

> This brings up another interesting question, now that Performer's  
> Royalties
> are becoming significant... On electronic scores where the composer  
> plays a
> synth/sampler, whether real-time or into a computer, wouldn't the  
> composer
> be the "performer" for those electronic instruments, and entitled to
> performer's royalties?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark Northam
>
>
> On 7/13/06 1:28 PM, "Tim R" <tjr201 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info Les... I am wondering if I should be listed as a
>> performer, having performed but not written the music in this case.
>> We'll really I should have been considered a co-writer but I figure
>> it's to late for that.
>
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