[Fmpro] FMN Job 4499 - Music Licensing Co Seeks PD Holiday Music

[Mark Northam]

Hi Nicholas -

Since you're named a specific jobwire posting to be critical of, please be
more specific about the company you were dealing with and let's give them an
opportunity to respond, if indeed it's the same one as last year. There are
typically several ads posted for holiday music, so I can't be sure of which
one you're reporting on unless you can provide more specifics. If a company
is being unprofessional in their handling of our member submissions, I want
to know about that.

By sending out a bad report like this without any specifics, you're casting
a bad light on a company and a music supervisor without giving them the
ability to respond (as the say, there are two sides to every story), and if
indeed the company you're bring critical of is not the same company and/or
music supervisor as job 4499, I believe a correction (at a minimum) is in
order, since in that case your criticism of the poster for job 4499 is
mistaken.

As I said, if you want to report someone as "unprofessional", that's fine,
let's discuss it! But it you're going to publish a negative report, it's
only fair to the job poster and the music supervisor that you be specific
about who you're being critical of. If you wish to provide the information
to me privately (mark at gmdgroup.com), that's fine, but I need to confirm
which company you're talking about so that any criticism - especially public
criticism - is accurately placed.

Thanks,

Mark Northam
Film Music Network


On 8/17/07 7:08 PM, "Nicholas Pavkovic" <nicholas at pavkovic.com> wrote:

> Heads up: I believe the same company was looking for PD Christmas
> music tracks last year. I did one on spec -- not the smartest move
> for me. The music supervisor had to pitch the track to his client,
> who perhaps wasn't looking for the kind of music that we'd worked on.
> I'll never know for sure, because at some point (after several rounds
> of revisions) my emails stopped getting returned. There were no
> guarantees, so I'm less disappointed by the lack of remuneration than
> by the rudeness. And -- due to the unprofessional circumstances -- I
> actually bought and watched the awful movie just to make sure that my
> music wasn't used. (It wasn't.) What a waste of time! Of course, if
> you have a track that they want -- right out of the box -- this may
> be an easy source of income. If the terms are the same as last
> year's: They'll want a (non-exclusive?) buyout and they'll want to
> pay $1000 or less. It'll be for source music in a TV movie. (I guess
> I was OK with the terms because I didn't want any of that yucky
> contemporary Christmas music in my library, anyway ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
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