[Fmpro] RIGHTS

[Mark Northam]

Great question. In many of these matters, it would be helpful to determine
the legal standing of composers who are owed money by PROs worldwide, but do
not own copyright. 

Seems to me that if someone owes you money, that is the heart of the issue
and is the defining element of the financial relationship,  and that
copyright is a separate matter.

It's interesting to see how the PROs try and relegate those who do not own
copyright to somewhat of a lesser status - for example, allowing publishers
to join multiple PROs but forcing writers to only belong to one at a time...

Best,

Mark Northam


On 7/19/06 9:55 AM, "Les Hurdle" <leshurdle101 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Scott Szabo wrote:
> 
>> Although I have not thought in great detail about it, I believe that
>> you are
>> asking for the right to audit specific data that would allow you to
>> confirm
>> performances via a PROs data...data about music you've written.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> If one is NOT the copyright holder does a composer have any right to
> obtain data from a PRO?
> 
> les
> 
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