[Fmpro] 1331 isn't 1337

[Pete]

Before the cue sheets, you need to register all your works with ASCAP. ASCAP matches up the cue sheets with the registered works. If you didn't register your works, that could explain why you haven't been paid. I believe you have 9 month grace period to register (but I'm not sure).

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, 2:10 PM
> OK here is ultra noob question, but am I supposed to fill
> out the cue sheets? 
> I thought the producer of a film or the ad or whatever does
> that? Anytime I have paper I always have a clause stating
> that its understood that I am listed on the cue sheet as
> composer and a member of ascap
> 
> Not that I always or even mostly have solid paperwork on my
> projects. Maybe I am just too eager to get some work and to
> keep the bills paid that I am not being forceful enough?
> 
> Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
> Cinematic Composer
> http://www.alpiar.com/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete [mailto:musical411 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 02:04 PM
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] 1331 isn't 1337
> 
> 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 wrote:
> > From: 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 s!
>  tuff 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/
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