[Fmpro] Given Credit

[LesHurdle]

So, not one of almost 1000 people on this lis has any idea how their  
ASCAP pay is calculated?

Are you all seriously in denial?

Little wonder some never get paid.

L

On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:04 AM, LesHurdle wrote:

> OK  Economics
>
> So please explain in great detail how an ASCAP 'credit' is
> mathematically produced, and given a vast amount of music is never
> sureveyed/sampled/paid...... which genre of music profits by this bad
> MO.  [Think hard ;-)]
>
> Anyone?
>
> Now explain how income from downloads is to be paid?
>
> L
>
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Jim Chase wrote:
>
>> Well. it seems that I have the floor, as it were...
>> If you can wade through his graduate thesis, Will Page
>>
>> WillPage-TransmissionConfPaper.pdf
>>
>> actually has something to say.  You will have to tread carefully
>> through five pages of sophomoric cow patties -- in the form of
>> redundant tables and explanations -- until the author actually gets
>> to the point, which is "The Economics of ‘Bundling’   Typical of
>> someone who has a narrow pedagogic perspective of the field of music
>> production, and absolutely no practical experience.
>>
>> Read on!  Will Page expounds, with pictures and arrows and a
>> paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is.  Will
>> Page will someday become a great orator of Economics.  Perhaps a
>> Presidential Advisor.  Perhaps my worst nightmare.  I wish him all
>> the best.
>>
>> Meanwhile, music pioneer and visionary Trent Reznor, and others are
>> bailing on the whole Major Label thing like rats leaving a sinking
>> ship.  This is what is happening, as opposed to economic theory.  Get
>> with it.
>>
>> Jim Chase
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>>
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