[Fmpro] VONGO

[Mark Northam]

Have no fear, Chris. As long as you drink the Kool-Aid and serenely buy into
the propaganda from the performing rights organizations that all songs are
worth 500% more (for a one minute cue on film/TV) than a minute of score is
on the same film or TV show, you'll lead a happy blissful life, content in
the back of the bus (musically speaking).

But all is not lost, ye erstwhile composer! While the songwriters are
laughing all the way to the bank while getting 500% more royalties for their
minute of music, you as a score composer are getting more than 600% more for
your minute of music than those hapless, no-talent, third-rate CPA
(commercials/ads) composers are getting for their minute of music on the
same show. And let's not forget that the revenues from TV ads represent the
vast majority of television broadcasters' income, which funds the entire
performing rights television distribution via the license fees broadcasters
pay. That's a pesky detail that's often overlooked by those who seem intent
on decimating the value of CPA music copyrights...

So you can rest comfortably knowing that you're far from the bottom of the
performing rights food-chain (but far from the top as well)... Pity the poor
CPA composer... who's he got to feel superior to? Maybe the guy whose music
never even gets paid a nickel because of the antiquated "surveys" that are
still used to create the haves and the have-nots when it comes to peformance
royalties... 

Best,

Mark Northam

P.S. It bears repeating, although it's been said here before: The
broadcasters make no difference in score or song when they pay the license
fees to the US performing rights organizations. The massive differences in
royalty value that the PROs have assigned to a minute of song, score and CPA
music are entirely a product of the PROs and their own musical "values."


On 2/4/07 12:18 PM, "Chris Alpiar" <chris at alpiar.com> wrote:

> What are the heads like descended from Al Capone or something? What's the
> real story here? I mean obviously some person or few people are making TONS
> of money in the name of us...

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