[Fmpro] Pump and $MTV$

[Kirbyko3@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/07 1:09:07 AM, musical411 at yahoo.com writes:


> 
> How long ago did you work for them?
> 
> It's my own Library / Instrumental Catalog. I was
> licensing through Music Supervisors for both very
> unpopular, and very popular, MTV reality shows.
> 

I left a year and a half ago.   Yeah, anything done through a music 
supervisor for an MTV show was done pretty much for the purposes of "free" -- that's 
why they hired the music supervisor: to find indie artists who would jump on 
board for nothing. If you were a library, I think you probably didn't stand much 
of a chance just because there were so many libraries constantly banging on 
the door to get their stuff used. But all of the major libraries (Killer Tracks, 
APM, Megatrax, Pump, MasterSource) got paid for use of their music in MTVN 
shows across the board.   So for a music supervisor to actually say the words 
"MTV doesn't pay sync and master fees" is absolutely wrong.   They should've 
been saying "We need gratis music for this series."   It sucks that you got 
screwed, but I hope the performance money added up to something respectable, at 
least?

Maybe that's where belonging to a bigger library comes in handy.   Even when 
I worked there, working (literally) with the producers who had the power to 
put my music into a show, I couldn't get stuff used. But the minute I joined 
Pump, my stuff found its way into everything. Now my ASCAP statements are page 
after page of MTVN shows, so the PRO money is starting to add up.

Kerry


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