[Fmpro] BMI 200%, ASCAP 100%

[Mark Northam]

Typically if there are splits, the percentages on the splits as shown on the
cue sheets should add up to 100%, for instance:

"cue title"
   Writer: Joe Smith - 50%
   Writer: Bob Jones - 50%

However, once the PROs allow us to start using RapidCue, their new online
cue sheet system, whatever RapidCue is set up to do in this area will likely
become the standard. Anybody heard when people other than the "elites"
they've invited already will be allowed to use this instead of sending in
paper cue sheets and spreadsheets and hoping the ASCAP Data Entry department
does a better job at "keypunching" them into the system does a better job
than the ASCAP Member Services department apparently does at returning calls
and answering questions?

Oh wait, it's all on the website... Never mind. :-)

Mark Northam



On 6/30/07 11:47 AM, "Edwin Wendler" <edwinwendler at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Thank you for the quick answer!  My question was mainly about how to fill out
> cue sheets, especially when those cue sheets have to be submitted with both
> ASCAP and BMI.  Thanks!
>  
> Edwin
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Northam <mnortham at gmdgroup.com>
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:43:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] BMI 200%, ASCAP 100%
> 
> Different numbers, different terminology, same math. It's a 50/50 split in
> both cases.
> 
> Mark Northam
> 
> 
> On 6/30/07 11:36 AM, "Edwin Wendler" <edwinwendler at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Esteemed Colleagues,
>> 
>> As a member of BMI, it has always been clear to me that the total royalties
>> pie was 200%:
>> 100% writer's share
>> 100% publisher's share
>> 
>> I recently collaborated on a song with a member of ASCAP, and his online
>> works
>> registration page shows a total royalties pie of 100%:
>> 50% writer's share
>> 
>> 50% publisher's share
>> 
>> This was news to me, and I am wondering if any ASCAP members on this board
>> can
>> confirm that.  And if, in fact, ASCAP and BMI have different ways of looking
>> at the same thing, how should cue sheets be written?  The ASCAP way (50/50)
>> or
>> the BMI way (100/100)?
>> 
>> Sorry if this topic has been discussed to the point of nausea before.
>>  
>> Edwin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        
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