[Fmpro] 80% Non-Lyric Penalty?

[Pete]

Mark,

Sorry, I couldn't find anything in the document you
linked that said anything about songs being awarded
feature performance by default. Maybe I missed
something.

Can you please quote the passage from that document?

As I said in my previous post, I have a song in an
Academy-Award-Winning film that does not get "Feature
Performance" by default. It's always paid at the 
background rate.

With respect,
Pete

--- Mark Northam <mnortham at gmdgroup.com> wrote:
...since all songs are awarded feature performance
> status by default by
> ASCAP. That's an 80% penalty for a one minute cue -
> the typical length of a film/TV cue - if it's score
vs. if it's song. Fact.
> 
> Heres' the ASCAP document:
>
http://www.ascap.com/reference/compendium_rules_regs_rev092507.pdf
> 
> See pages 15-18
> 
> Are you disputing that?  Are YOU willing to
> challenge that? Or are you just
> trying to muddy the waters a bit?



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