[Fmpro] Pump and $MTV$

[Kirbyko3@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/07 1:26:28 AM, mnortham at gmdgroup.com writes:


> Classic scenario: Music Library A sells blanket license to their 500 CDs to
> Broadcaster B for $10,000 with no effective reporting requirement back to
> the library as to which tracks they used, since it's a blanket license.
> Library pockets $10,000 and doesn't distribute to composers since "we don't
> know which tracks they used, so we have no way to distributing the money
> fairly to the composers". Yeah, how convenient.  For those tracks that do
> end up on cue sheets accurately, assuming the PROs decide to track and pay
> the music, the writers will get their writers share of performing rights.
> But the sync (blanket license) fees? Often not.
> 
> 

Which specific libraries do this sort of thing?   In my former life on the 
biz side, even when I did blanket agreements with a music library, accounting 
and cuesheets were ALWAYS involved, and were always part of the deliverables.   
Those libraries were APM, Killer Tracks, Pump Audio, MasterSource, Five-Alarm, 
Megatrax, TRF and FirstCom.    And even if I did a deal with a smaller 
library that a producer had a fondness for, a cuesheet was always required.

I'm sure that scenario above is possible, but honestly it sounds a bit 
conspiracy-theory/worst-case-scenario to me.

Kerry


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