[Fmpro] NO one?? PRS changes?

[Mark Northam]

As always, Pete, you're a master of the extreme example to make your point.

Perhaps you don't know as many composers as I do that have crashed and
burned in this business financially, in part because they weren't able to
generate enough royalty income to survive. There is a real human cost to
failure in this business that few speak about publicly. Is that all the
result of poor royalty rates for non-song music from the PROs? Of course
not, but that's a part of it.  And it's one of the things that motivates me
to push for reform for all composers.

Beyond the theoretical debates we have here on FMPRO, let's not forget there
is a real human cost of the financial discrimination the PROs practice
against non-song music.

Best,

Mark Northam


On 8/10/07 5:45 PM, "Pete" <musical411 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's not THAT complicated. Nobody is a back-of-the-bus
> victim here. Stop insulting everyone who was ever
> racially discriminated by comparing them to a composer
> who gets $15,000 for 30 seconds of music, or a
> publisher who gets $255,000 for the USE of a 40 year
> old song.