[Fmpro] Licensing Fee Calculator

[Michael Eames, PEN Music Group]

Hey Claude -

Since I license music for a living, I decided to give the calculator  
a try.

I put in the following criteria:

LICENSING TYPE: TV Show Sync License
LICENSE DURATION: Unlimited  [NOTE: should probably read perpetuity  
instead]
MUSIC LENGTH: Entire Song
USAGE TYPE: Background or source
MEDIA TYPE: All TV Rights
HOME VIDEO RIGHTS: Included Home Video Rights
FOREIGN THEATRICAL RIGHTS: Not Included
TERRITORY: Worldwide

RESULTING CALCULATED COST: $35,250.13

The most common license terms for a TV synch license these days is  
for all media excluding theatrical, worldwide, in perpetuity.

On the high side in the real world, for really well known songs,  
these rights normally bring between $18,000-23,000 for 100% of the  
publishing and the same for the master, for a total of $36,000- 
$46,000 "all-in".

On the low side, libraries can license the same rights for around  
$600 and so-called "indie music" can go for $1,000-3,000 all-in for  
the same rights.

Given the calculator did not even take the master into consideration  
in the questionnaire (and it's implied that it must be for publishing  
only since the LICENSE TYPE is a "Sync License"),  and did not factor  
in the status and popularity of the song, I'm not sold on the  
accuracy of the calculator......

Thanks.

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Michael Eames
President
PEN Music Group, Inc.
589 N. Larchmont Blvd., 2nd Flr
Los Angeles, CA  90004-1305

Pensive Music (ASCAP)
Penname Music (BMI)
PENWorks (SESAC)
Songs Of PEN UK (MCPS/PRS)

323.871.9200 phone
323.460.2333 fax
michael at penmusic.com

http://www.penmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/penmusicgroupinc



On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:00 AM, fmpro-request at nxport.com wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:50:15 -0400
> From: Claude Castonguay <c.castonguay at videotron.ca>
> Subject: [Fmpro] Licensing Fee Calculator
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
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> Hi everyone,
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> anybody know if this thing is in the right ballpark in quoting  
> figures?
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> Best,
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> Claude
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> http://www.licensequote.com/(S(i5y2jy55d0fxt3ifxakzri55))/LQFree.aspx
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