[Fmpro] FMN JobWire Posting - Library Directory

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In a message dated 8/29/07 10:37:45 PM, musical411 at yahoo.com writes:


> 
> If $8.00 is the average for a sync/master fee, I'd go
> with keeping the Publishing/Writers share of the
> performance royalties (as in the deal with the FMN
> jobwire ad). OK, so sometimes you'll get nothing, but
> most of the times you'll get more than $8.00.
> 

Sure, there's the occasional $8 payment that turns up on a statement, 
especially for a 1- or 2-hour doc for a cable station, where they use so much music 
on a blanket-rate basis that you really don't make much.   But honestly, those 
have been the minority on my Pump Audio statements.   And when they do turn 
up, I do end up seeing some $$ on my ASCAP statement, especially if it's a show 
that gets played to death.   (Thank God for "Beyond the DaVinci Code" on 
History Channel! ) Those occasional 30-second or 1-min uses really do add up over 
multiple broadcasts.     So I would never encourage someone to try to make 
their living on Pump Audio money, but if your stuff is just sitting on a shelf 
gathering dust, it's a great way to make a few bucks on it.   And now and then 
the bigger-money stuff does come along through them.     What I give them credit 
for, though, is a clean business model that doesn't try to rape the composer: 
you get 50% of the sync fee, you keep your writer's share, and you get 50% of 
the publishing fee.    That sure beats the recent job posting's rate of 0% of 
the sync fee, and you get the backend money.     

And a $50 flat fee for music?   I think that just took the whole industry 
down a notch.   It makes me nervous to see what happens to Pump now that Getty 
took them over.   But for the time being, I'll give 'em the benefit of the 
doubt.   They've been good people so far.

Kerry


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