[Fmpro] BBC versus American TV

[andrew feazelle]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:36 PM, andrew feazelle wrote:

>  Xena Warrior Princes, Herculese,


New Zealand I think.. and the music caused quite a stir a few years  
back since he who claimed the composition turned out not to be he who  
did the work.

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Yeah I remember something about that - the ghost guy wanted his cue sheet credit or money comparable to the cue sheet credit or something to that effect?  I imagine the DeLuca guy (or whatever his name was?) had to sign something that cleared the show from any copyright issues secondary to ghost composing.  Couple that with the short time frame to compose TV stuff, the amount of work for lots of adventure scenes/and comic relief, and it works out to taking one for the team.  

That reminds me, there's this one fella that sends me auto-emails about music jobs.  I applied for one and then I read his fine print.  According to the fine print,  he wants 10% of cue sheet credit for any job he makes available through his industry connections.   It seems silly that the guy not only commits cue sheet fraud, but has it in writing and sends it to an entire list of composer subscribers.  But then again the PRO's don't seem to care..........