[Dixielandjazz] royalties

[Scott Anthony]

I think that what are called mechanical licensing fees for recorded music 
and live music performance fees are completely different buckets of worms. 
Mechanical licensing fees at least have a paper trail where each song on a 
recording you make has an actual form filled out with a target composer and 
a defined amount. At least in the US, live music fees collected by ASCAP and 
others seem to be distributed by some "formula" that has nothing to do with 
the actual tunes being performed. I'd like to know more about the logic of 
that.

Scott Anthony


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: <santh at pacbell.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:46 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] royalties


> List-Message-Recipient: santh at pacbell.net
> In Spain, both the Author's Society & the Performing Rights group are
> official organizations, not privately set up groups.  I suspect it is that
> way all over Europe.  A fee is charged when joining (about $30 Euros), you
> prepare a list of compositions, or recordings you have performed 
> on....then,
> there is no more to do, other than pay personal taxes on the bit that 
> might
> eventually arrive in your bank account from royalties paid.  The
> organizations track down the use of music, and pay you your bit.  They 
> take
> a healthy amount for the service.
>
> Yes, there is contention, in that gobs of money is deducted to cover 
> costs.
> Yes, clubs, theaters, etc., all pay a fee for playing recorded music or 
> for
> having live music (not enough to make them stop doing so).  Yes,  a 
> certain
> tax is levied on recordable material (tapes, blank CD's, etc.).  There is 
> no
> strong arm stuff going on.  It may not be so now, but it used to be that 
> the
> publishing company would get 50% of a song, the composer getting the other
> 50%.  That is why big name bands/people will have their own publishing
> company.  Lots of tricks, if your royalties warrant getting into it.  Mine
> aren't.
>
> So far, on DJML, wev'e only heard from one side.  Is there no one with any
> knowledge of the other side of the argument?
>
> Jim
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