[Fmpro] FMPRO Digest, Vol 39, Issue 15

[CORBERAMA@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/14/2008 5:03:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
fmpro-request at nxport.com writes:

You may  recall, thanks to The ACCO... not the SCL as 'I have my ASCAP   
deal'  Dan Foliart seemed to believe,.........EU PRO's came to  the  
USA to educate composers.  ASCAP of-course contended  otherwise.
The EU PRO's spelled out the fact US composers are losing  MILLIONS of  
dollars pa via the broadcast mechanical  [BM].
 
The real issue seems to me to be, that the complexities of total  royalty 
collection on a world-wide basis are daunting and also that so much in  the music 
royalty business is hidden from those creators of the underlying art  that 
generate the royalties.  A lot of people in the chain of royalties are  making 
money off what creators create and doing what they can to see to it that  
creators don't benefit from their own efforts.
 
Do i have an answer?  Not for all of it, only parts of it, but  most don't 
want to hear it.  I've ben expounding that answer for years on  and off this 
list.
 
There is no one panacea for it.  So much money is lost  internationally, in 
some instances just because the organization holding money  doesn't know the 
identity of the proper person to whom to pay it.  What you  receive or don't 
from ascap is only the tip of that iceberg.  
 
 
PROTECT  YOU RIGHTS
Brian Lee Corber
attorney at Law
Los Angeles,  California
818/399-4735

corberlaw at aol.com
(see my contract analysis  service) at:
_http://corberlaw.com_ (http://corberlaw.com) 
 
P.S.:  no one I know mistakes the AACO for the SCL





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