[Fmpro] Getty QQQQQQ's

[LesHurdle]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Kirbyko3 at aol.com wrote:

>> But what of the original copyright and the product.. who owns it, and
>> does Getty have any responsibility to the orig owner?
>>
>
> They are the agent, the product is their clients (broadcasters) and  
> the
> composers whose music they represent. Have you not read any of the  
> 100 posts I've
> written this afternoon?

Hi Kerry,

I guess I'm really dumb then.

If PA sold 'the composers' [I guess this is what you meant to say] as  
'the product' to Getty, then why wouldn't the owner of the product  
[the composer] want part of the profit?


My real reason for going round and round on this is the other side of  
the business......... which not even you touched today.........

Composer writes music for TV show/Film.. whatever...... [let's  
include Library]  composer keeps all mechanical rights, this most  
assuredly includes sales of 'the product' albeit CD's, DVD's etc.   
Why then are composers not paid part of the mechanical sale of 'the  
product' when the product is sold in its complete form in the  
secondary market e.g. MIDEM or The Santa Monica Film Fest where  
product is sold by the pound**........  sales take place, sales are  
mechanical, in my book the composer should be entitled to part of the  
'sale'.
Include local tv in the USA etc. re sales of Networked product.

L

**
My wife worked with one 'entrepreneur' who would sell 'product' by  
the pound to the broadcasters in Arabic and 3rd world countries  
knowing full well there would never be any reporting.......