[Fmpro] 80% Non-Lyric Penalty?

[LesHurdle]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Pete wrote:

> A TV Commercial, which gets paid the same if it has
> lyrics or not.

Not so..... song gets 12% non song 3% of a feature


>
> I also have a song *WITH LYRICS* in an
> Academy-Award-Winning film that always gets paid at a
> background rate. Because, uh... it was in the
> background of the scene.


Then you should challenge it, if you are prepared to get into ASCAP's  
bad books..............  I dare you ;-)

L