[Fmpro] When do you file your works with ASCAP?

[Chris Alpiar]

So when do you usually register works Pete? As soon as you register with LOC
copyright office regardless of placement? Or each time you complete a work
for a placement (ie when a library track is *placed* or when you finish a
custom job for a client)?

Also just for the record ;-) - I never thought of or think of ASCAP as evil.
Hell I am a member! I anticipate that we will help each other be very
successful over time and I look forward to it. There are still serious
problems tho and being the kinda guy I am a intend to try my best to do what
I can in my own way to help fix the problems. 

I absolutley think composers should get 1:1 with songwriters as we do in
most every other country in the world. Choosing that music is worth more
with words than without is like going to a museum and deciding that the
pictures with people in them are worth more than the abstracts - ridiculous!

Also I absolutely think that ASCAP should have a pretty easy way to get new
people on the ballot. I think there are issues in how they survey music
played and how that money gets back to the artists and they really really
need to finish a system that 100% records *every* performance everywhere any
time any place 100% and pay exactly the right money to each person. If it
means they need to license to the broadcasters differently also, im ok with
that! But in the information exchange times we live in there is absolutely
no reason why every second of every performance of every music cannot be
tracked and recorded and paid accordingly. No playlists or sample surveys,
just computers whirring and paychecks printing ;-)

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Cinematic Composer 
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Dayton, OH 45409 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com 
> [mailto:fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com] On Behalf Of Pete
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:55 PM
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] FMPRO Digest, Vol 38, Issue 33
> 
> Quite an omission too. Certainly explains why you haven't 
> received royalties. And all this time you thought ASCAP was 
> just evil. :-)
> 
> Pete
> 
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