[Fmpro] Here's what happens when you have some clout

[Mark Northam]

Sadly, groups like the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), which
counts as members many top TV composers, already has the clout in terms of
market share - at least on TV - to walk into ASCAP and demand better deals,
but as they receive funding from ASCAP and have never, coincidentally (or
not) had a BMI President, they choose not to use that clout and instead keep
on accepting the funding and whatever other compensation may or may not
Instead, they choose to be all warm and fuzzy with their good friends at
ASCAP while composers continue to get screwed on performing rights royalties
to an extent seen nowhere else in the world outside the US. The "warm and
friendly" approach obviously hasn't worked.

It's no wonder ASCAP has to keep the SCL close, happy, funded, and on a
short leash... If those guys ever used their market share to demand change,
it might just happen. Now why wouldn't they want that to happen.....?


Best,

Mark Northam




They choose not to use it to


On 8/27/07 11:24 AM, "James Ryan" <jeryan at optonline.net> wrote:

> These boys know how to cut a deal.  I wonder how the composer for the show
> is faring.
> 
> South Park Creators Get Ad Sharing Deal; Digital Rev Share and Online Studio
> Formed 
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>> By Rafat Ali 
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>> 9%2Cbb8Twgn>  - Sun 26 Aug 2007 10:06 PM PST
>> 
>> In what is being described as a new deal of its kind, Matt Stone and Trey
>> Parker, the creators and executive producers of "South Park", have renewed
>> their deal with Comedy Central (and owners Viacom), and includes some novel
>> digital elements. The new joint venture involves millions (the NYT story
>> 
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>> 8%2Cbb8Twgn>  says $75 million) in up-front cash and a 50-50 split of ad
>> revenues, and the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create
>> a hub to spread "South Park"-related material across the Net, mobile
>> platforms, and video games. The hub, called SouthParkStudios.com
>> 
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>> 9%2Cbb8Twgn> , will be housed in the show's animation studio in Culver City,
>> CA, that is intended to be an incubator not only for new applications for
>> characters the likes of Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny, but for new comedy
>> concepts that could one day mature into TV series of their own, the story
>> says. 
>> 
>> The deal gives a three-year extension of the show and its creators' contracts
>> through a 15th season, in the year 2011, and gives Stone and Parker sizable
>> raises, both in their salaries and in their guaranteed advances against
>> back-end profits from DVDs, merchandising, syndication and international
>> sales.     
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