Re: [Fmpro] PRO strategy: need advice. Please READ the advise.

[LesHurdle]

More to the point, how do you know the amount paid for the license is  
correct......... then, if that 'show' goes overseas.. what then.

How many on this list have ever seen the contract between the  
publisher here in the USA [presuming it is not you] and the sub-pub  
overseas?
What was the deal..........  you have no idea....... see Broadcast  
Mechanicals !!!!!!!!

Also, if you are a member of e.g. PRS in the UK where Direct  
Licensing is a no no......... yet it turns out it happens.........  
how would a UK composer know if the sub-pub direct licensed..........  
where would the money go?

There are so many ways for 'them' to rip us off..... and as I was  
told the other day.... folks ripping us off are just being shrewd  
businessmen.

Yeah right.

L

On Oct 3, 2007, at 8:19 AM, kirbyko3 at aol.com wrote:

>
> That's a great point.? I normally do scoring gigs, but I do have a  
> ton of my stuff living with Pump Audio.? If they were to do a  
> direct license with anyone, I'd get 50% of the publisher's share of  
> that direct license but I don't know how my writer's share would  
> get paid.?? I need to do some detective work.
>
>
>
> kerry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LesHurdle <leshurdle at avradionet.com>
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Sent: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:05 am
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro]? PRO strategy: need advice. Please READ the  
> advise.
>
>
>
>
> Hi Kerry,
>
> What you really need to ask, if you are a library composer.........
> and especially if you are a composer from overseas..... is this
> simple question.
>
> How do you know your piece of music was sold as a direct license?
>
> You wont...........  the fault is not just with the PRO's.
>
> L
>
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Kirbyko3 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Those articles were pretty juicy and the scenario they paint sounds
>> bleak.
>> But it does sound like even if a direct-performance license did
>> happen, it
>> would be with the tiny handful of composers who score the network
>> shows.   Would
>> a situation like that even be feasible with all the cable nets,
>> considering
>> how much cable music is production (library) music?
>>
>> I feel like I'm not completely grasping the gravity of this...
>> maybe you can
>> offer a real-life-type scenario to help flesh out the picture?
>>
>> - Kerry
>>
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