[Fmpro] isn't the PRO thing basically this?

[Les Hurdle]

Ho Tood... sorry abut the tood ;-)

Hi Dana

See PRS........ wanting to shift from 1-1 because
staff can't get the right amount of money from
broadcasters to pay for the increase in music usage.

Yet they are still employed ?????

What is next a Knighthood for screwing up?

L


--- Dana from Serious Vanity Music
<dana at seriousvanity.com> wrote:

> Just some babble:
> 
> Shouldn't this imply that the usage fees that
> networks, stations, venues, 
> etc. should be higher to reflect the actual cost of
> music usage?  Am I 
> misunderstanding how that works?
> 
> And if this is the case, how is it that memberships
> can now be free?  If 
> amount paid by music users could go toward paying
> the members, and 
> membership fees went towards administrative costs
> and salaries, it seems 
> like that would be a system that would work.  If
> there already isn't enough 
> money to pay music makers, how can another source of
> revenue that could 
> potentially help the situation be done away with?
> 
> Dana Detrick-Clark
> Serious Vanity Music
> http://www.seriousvanity.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Les Hurdle" <leshurdle101 at yahoo.com>
> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] isn't the PRO thing basically
> this?
> 
> 
> > Hi Tood,
> >
> > You are correct.
> >
> > ASCAP Board members and staff have said in public;
> >
> > "If we paid for every piece of music aired there
> would
> > be no money for anyone"
> >
> > "It is not cost effective to pay everyone"
> >
> > Why would any PRO staff member do the right,
> correct,
> > honest thing?
> >
> > Les
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Todd Burns <tzilla at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If everyone got paid for every bit of music that
> >> aired, wouldn't the
> >> amount be so staggeringly different from current
> >> numbers that every
> >> writer's  piece of the pie would shrink
> considerably
> >> (or some other
> >> massive shake-up to the status quo) that nobody
> in
> >> charge wants to go
> >> there?  Is that it?  The current licensing fees
> from
> >> the networks
> >> probably could not support it.  Thoughts?  If
> I've
> >> repeated someone
> >> else's thought, forgive me.
> >>
> >> Todd
> >>
> >>
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