[Fmpro] 1331 isn't 1337

[Pete]

Chris,

I hope I'm not asking the obvious, but have you registered all your songs? Your ASCAP ACE listing shows 0 songs.

Pete


--- On Sun, 6/22/08, chris at alpiar.com <chris at alpiar.com> wrote:

> From: chris at alpiar.com <chris at alpiar.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] 1331 isn't 1337
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 1:02 PM
> Oh I KNOW it has been hah. I have seen/heard it
> 
> Why do you think I am motivated to crack this nut?
> 
> Coming from a Jazz background where I played and toured for
> many years, I was in the horn section or as a sideman as a
> sax player on literally around 500 recording sessions. As
> an uneducated jazz sax player I never had any idea that I
> had rights to anything more than the cash being paid to me.
> I wasnt in AFM since AFM was only for broadway and classical
> really, or the top 100 names in jazz maybe (maybe). So as I
> have been building my writing carreer for the last 6 or 7
> years I have been trying to figure out why, now that I am
> ascap, do I not get paid for the stuff I am putting out
> there. I just assumed that (read earlier posts of mine) ad
> music gets no royalty and local show music and stuff played
> on npr doest count
> 
> I don;t think I would have a ton of money from royalty yet
> anyhow, as I probably only have music on 40 or so regional
> radio ads and a smattering of short films and an animation
> series that went bust after its first few episodes since I
> joined
> 
> But I am not blind and I want to see that my future as a
> instrumental music composer (and songwriter too but really
> composer) has some basic security. So thats why I am
> interested. Plus I am a sucker for hopeless causes ;-D
> (joke!)
> 
> Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
> Cinematic Composer
> http://www.alpiar.com/