[Fmpro] Rapid Cue

[Mark Northam]

No sweat. But how do you enact wide-ranging rules that measure the
"effectiveness" of music? To me, it's patently unfair to label every song a
feature performance simply because it has lyrics - it's an obvious money
grab by the lyricists and songwriters, and short-changes a ton of
"effective" score music.

If you song has lyrics, it should have been paid automatically as a feature
as long as you indicated it as "BV" (Background Vocal) on the cue sheet. If
it's not, I would complain immediately to the Songwriter High Command at
ASCAP as that's the rule... All BVs are paid by default as features unless
an audit of the performance determines that it's non-featured.

Best,

Mark Northam


On 8/16/07 10:23 AM, "Pete" <musical411 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sorry, didn't mean for it to be nasty. Just poking a
> little fun at what to me seems like your sometimes
> extreme viewpoint (ala "Back of the Bus").
> 
> I can't really agree with the idea of only having
> songs that are heard by the actors paid as featured. I
> think of how Green Day's "Good Riddance" (Hope you had
> the time of your life) was used so effectively as the
> farewell song for Seinfeld. I contrast that with one
> of my songs that was used in Monster on the car radio.
> Although it was barely audible, technically it would
> have been heard by the actors. (Which incidentally
> does not get automatically credited as "featured" on
> my statements.)
> 
> P e t e
> S u r d o v a l
> (Sure Uses Ridiculous Defenses Of Villainous ASCAP
> Laws)