[Fmpro] petition

[Phil Kelly]

Okay ..its like chicken soup, cant hurt ..so I signed it.

Keep in mind even if you're a US PRS member, this sounds as though it 
will screw with your foreign royalty income as well as those based in 
Great Britain.


Phil Kelly
www.philkellymusic.com
NW Prevailing Winds
SW Santa Ana Winds
Origin Records
On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:24 PM, fmpro-request at nxport.com wrote:

> From: Mark Northam <mnortham at gmdgroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] PLease do not ignore
> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
> Message-ID: <C24155B8.30230%mnortham at gmdgroup.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="US-ASCII"
>
> I see no reason why not to, if your music is or ever will be aired in 
> the UK
> and you have an interest in your own royalty income.
>
> I for one and getting sick and tired of the PROs positioning 
> themselves as
> omnipotent authorities when it comes to the value of music. These 
> kinds of
> arbitrary rate changes, not to mention the HUGE rate differences 
> between
> score and song arbitrarily assigned by the US PROs at the behest of the
> songwriters and their publishers, are nothing more than politically
> motivated money-grabs.
>
> And it's OUR (score compsoers') money they're grabbing.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark Northam
>