[Fmpro] petition

[Les Hurdle]

Not sure how you see that Phil...... please tell all?

Les


--- Phil Kelly <lonearrngr at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> _______________________________________________
> The Film Music Pro List is sponsored by Film Music
> Magazine -  http://www.filmmusicmag.com
> 
> To edit your list options or unsubscribe, visit:
> http://nxport.com/mailman/listinfo/fmpro
> 



       
____________________________________________________________________________________
TV dinner still cooling? 
Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.
http://tv.yahoo.com/