[Fmpro] ASCAP language

[Pete]

How do you come up with "hundreds of millions of
dollars every year"? That's WAAAAY off.

What percentage of music in programs (not commercials)
is vocal? Maybe 4%?

Obviously, if it's truly a feature performance vocal,
it should be paid "feature" rate. So, what percentage
of that 4% do you think is mis-credited as "feature"?
A shift in that tiny percentage isn't going to greatly
effect your payments.

Of course, each of us would have our own opinion on
when a vocal piece slips out of feature and into
background. Who gets to decide? How? Watch every vocal
cue? That's very labor intensive. How much money
should be spent on deciding if each vocal cue is in
the featured foreground or slipped into background?
Wouldn't it be more cost effective to just pay all
vocal as feature assuming 99% of the time it is
feature?

Pete


--- Mark Northam <markn at gmocorp.com> wrote:
> I wonder how
> many people's lives would be different today,
> especially composers - it's
> amazing how a few words can affect the distribution
> of hundreds of millions
> of dollars every year...



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