[Fmpro] BMI changes

[kirbyko3@aol.com]

Hey Mark,



Is there any official statement yet from the BMI folks about this?? I'm guessing that a lot of us instrumental composers are officially thinking about switching, if this truly means fairer weighting rules.? Please keep us posted... it sounds too good to be true, but hey -- maybe change is finally coming.

Kerry


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Northam <mnortham at gmdgroup.com>
To: fmpro at nxport.com
Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] BMI changes




Todd Brabec from ASCAP LA issued a letter to members around 2000 that said
exactly this, after we exposed the policy and the questions started to be
asked.

It's a HUGE giveaway to the songwriters, plain and simple. Not a single PRO
board member has ever justified this policy to me, and now that BMI has
ended it, they deserve a lot of credit.

Best,

Mark Northam




On 10/22/07 2:43 AM, "andrew feazelle" <andrew.feazelle at gte.net> wrote:

> Maybe there is another rule that says Background Vocal SHALL be considered a
> feature performance and nothing else?

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