[Fmpro] big guys

[leshurdle]

As ever, the real problem is the public at large think everyone  
connected to 'Show Biz' is making big bucks...... more to the point,  
it isn't a 'proper job'........... hmmmmmmm, yet being on staff at a  
publishers or PRO is !!

The fact is.... most composers do not own their product...........  
they are the peasants of the industry and will do as the lord  
[Scripps] commands.

Just how do 'we' keep the copyright.... pray tell?

L


On Jul 18, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Fernando Rivas wrote:

> O'Reilly? You've got to be kidding. Unless its got soundbite on it  
> that dog
> won't hunt.  Now if some composer joined Al Quaida and committed some
> terrorist act or had an affair with Bill Clinton you might have a  
> shot.
>
> FR
>
>
> On 7/18/07 12:10 PM, "flight007 at aol.com" <flight007 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> The next generation of composers are already here, Mark, and selling
>> all of us down the river. You only have to look at the music  
>> factories
>> of Saban and Scripps to see how 'the next generation' is undermining
>> any words and actions the rest of are taking.
>> With in excess of a 1000 signatures of royalty receiving members  
>> needed
>> to nominate a candidate for the ASCAP Board, there is little  
>> chance of
>> any change soon.
>> We must go public with our concerns and shame the Ivory Tower  
>> dwellers
>> into doing something. How about the O'Reilly Factor, or 60  
>> Minutes, or
>> Hannity and Colmes, or any TV Show that would see the inequity of the
>> situation? I've written to O'Reilly but have not received a reply,
>> but......if we all wrote!!
>>
>> Vic Flick
>>
>>
>>> It's a shameful situation. The US is home of some of the world's
>> greatest
>>> film and TV composers, yet those composers suffer in silence as the
>> PROs
>>> punish them day after day with some of the world's most  
>>> discriminatory
>>> royalty rules.
>>> Will the next generation of composers have the integrity and
>>> pride in themselves and their own artistic product and courage to
>> stand up
>>> to this blatant discrimination? We can only hope.
>>>
>>> Mark Northam
>>
>>
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