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SEAWOLF97
01-12-2008, 08:46 PM
so anyone really know ?

is it everytime your tune is played somewhere , you get paid ? how much ?
if one you wrote is rerecorded/covered ?
if McCartney plays a Beatle song in concert , but MJ owns the catalog, does he pay ? $ ?

idle minds need to know..........:)

duaneage
04-01-2008, 09:16 PM
Well it depends on the lawyers the artist used to strike a deal. Some artists get nothing while others live forever off off one effort. publishers, producers and agents eat at the trough as well.

Imagine making or doing something, others liking it, and being paid for darn near forever (90 years) for it while controlling how it is used, not used, performed, or even talked about.

Copyright used to be for a short period of time so the public could make use of an effort (and artists would be obliged to keep producing) but Disney rewrote the book on that. Check out lawrence lessig at www.free-culture.cc/ (http://www.free-culture.cc/) to read how it really works today

John
04-01-2008, 09:30 PM
so anyone really know ?


if McCartney plays a Beatle song in concert , but MJ owns the catalog, does he pay ? $ ?

idle minds need to know..........:)

No he does not pay for live peformance.

Bob Womack
04-02-2008, 07:38 AM
Here's your AC3/DVD copyright trivia for the day: A DVD has space for 8 discreet tracks of audio as well as digital "flags" to allow the author to designate how he would like for the audio to be interpreted. Typically, on an issue of a modern product, six of those tracks are used to contain the 5.1 surround mix. How the stereo mix comes to you is another matter.

It is possible to include on the DVD the stereo mix as the seventh and eighth tracks in the AC3 audio stream. It is also possible to set the "flags" in the AC3 stream so that the six 5.1 tracks (or any number) are premixed to create the stereo mix. Levels can be set for the premix. The problem is, each unit's decoder handles the decoding and mixing as a matter of the manufacturer's interpretation of the AC3 standard. Each manufacturer, and each of his products, can handle it differently. As a result, use of the fold-down facility is not a completely predictable method to produce a stereo mix.

Here's where copyright law enters the equation: Royalties must be paid for each discrete data stream within the AC3 stream. If you enclose both a 5.1 mix and a discrete stereo mix, two sets of royalties must be paid. If you enclose only one 5.1 mix and set the flags for it to be folded down for stereo, only one set of royalties must be paid. Your artist's or label's quality-vs.-profit philosophy will determine what you get.

Bob

Mike Caldwell
04-02-2008, 09:03 AM
About two years ago I saw a 60 Minutes interview with Sting and at the end of the interview they had a recap of Sting's careerer. They said he was still receiving $2500 a day from just the song "Every Breath You Take"! Take that one song and kind of figure all of the songs that he has done with the Police and solo. I'll take just one day of his royalty income!!!

Mike Caldwell

SEAWOLF97
10-02-2008, 07:10 PM
October 3, 2008
First Royalty Rates Set for Digital Music

By BEN SISARIO (http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=BEN%20SISARIO&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=BEN%20SISARIO&inline=nyt-per)
In a decision closely watched by the music industry, a panel of federal judges who determine royalty rates for recordings ruled on Thursday to renew the current royalty rate for CDs and other physical recordings, while setting rates for the first time for downloads, ring tones and other services.
The ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board — a panel of three judges appointed by the Librarian of Congress — applied strictly to mechanical royalties, which are paid to the songwriters and publishers of music, not the performers. The royalty is paid by the entity licensing the music (which varies, depending on the format of the recording).
Despite a range of proposals from music publishers, record labels and digital music sellers, the judges kept the rate for physical recordings at 9.1 cents for each track. The board set the same rate for permanent digital downloads, effectively equating the value of physical discs with downloads from retailers like Apple, through its iTunes store, and Amazon.com (http://amazon.com/).
The judges also set for the first time a mechanical royalty rate for master tones, ring tones made from a snippet of music from a full recording. That rate is 24 cents. Until now, copyright holders had negotiated royalty payments with users.
The new rates will be in effect through 2012.
The new rates had been the subject of contention among publishers, record labels and retailers, each of which had lobbied the board for significant changes. Publishers, concerned about losing income as music sales decline, sought an increase of 66 percent for physical recordings and downloads, while the labels and retailers petitioned the judges to adopt a new model that would determine royalty payments as a percentage of wholesale revenue.
In one document submitted to the judges, an Apple executive threatened that a significant increase in royalty rates could force the company to shut down its iTunes music store, which has sold 5 billion songs since it opened five years ago but which operates with thin margins.
Not all of the novel proposals from music companies were rejected. Last week most of the interested lobbying groups, including the Recording Industry Association of America (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/recording_industry_association_of_america/index.html?inline=nyt-org), the National Music Publishers’ Association and the Digital Media Association (which represents Apple, Amazon, Pandora Media and other companies), agreed to a plan to set royalty rates for streaming and other nonpermanent forms of music, like subscription services.
For those services, many of which depend on advertising, royalties would be tied to a percentage of revenue. The board has yet to ratify that plan, but the lobbying organizations expected it to pass.
Some in the industry warned that the measures might not be enough to stem the losses suffered since the rise of illegal file-sharing a decade ago. Jonathan Feinstein, a music lawyer at the Krasilovsky & Gross firm in New York, said the ruling introduced needed flexibility and certainty.
“Whether these developments will be sufficient to return the music industry to health is not clear,” Mr. Feinstein said.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03royalty.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=business&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1222999700-2u6M82mfzmsKBp09dKGNJA

JBL 4645
10-04-2008, 06:06 AM
About two years ago I saw a 60 Minutes interview with Sting and at the end of the interview they had a recap of Sting's careerer. They said he was still receiving $2500 a day from just the song "Every Breath You Take"! Take that one song and kind of figure all of the songs that he has done with the Police and solo. I'll take just one day of his royalty income!!!

Mike Caldwell

Ouch that stung me :D that did £2500.00 grand ouch. Now that’s a lot of money for royalties. I guess he banks part of then pays he’s taxes banks some more pays he’s taxes. Writes another song banks it pays he’s taxes.:D

And please I don’t what to know what George Lucas is getting for royalties ever time a lightsaber sound is heard in TV commercial or picture on the side of packet of crisps. Astronomical!!!!:D

Isn’t their royalties free download site for sound effects?

JBL 4645
10-04-2008, 06:18 AM
Here's your AC3/DVD copyright trivia for the day: A DVD has space for 8 discreet tracks of audio as well as digital "flags" to allow the author to designate how he would like for the audio to be interpreted. Typically, on an issue of a modern product, six of those tracks are used to contain the 5.1 surround mix. How the stereo mix comes to you is another matter.

It is possible to include on the DVD the stereo mix as the seventh and eighth tracks in the AC3 audio stream. It is also possible to set the "flags" in the AC3 stream so that the six 5.1 tracks (or any number) are premixed to create the stereo mix. Levels can be set for the premix. The problem is, each unit's decoder handles the decoding and mixing as a matter of the manufacturer's interpretation of the AC3 standard. Each manufacturer, and each of his products, can handle it differently. As a result, use of the fold-down facility is not a completely predictable method to produce a stereo mix.

Here's where copyright law enters the equation: Royalties must be paid for each discrete data stream within the AC3 stream. If you enclose both a 5.1 mix and a discrete stereo mix, two sets of royalties must be paid. If you enclose only one 5.1 mix and set the flags for it to be folded down for stereo, only one set of royalties must be paid. Your artist's or label's quality-vs.-profit philosophy will determine what you get.

Bob

wtf! You’re kidding right!:D

Sometimes I read thread on different forum site (I can’t get the surround-EX to work it won’t light-up) Well try manually turning it on then!

So you’re paying a slight percentage towards that DVD and the flag encoding doesn’t work automatically like it was designed to do in the first place, what a con.

macaroonie
10-04-2008, 03:54 PM
A few years ago when I had an interest in our family pub this guy comes in one day . Says hes from the PRS and wants £260 from us. Now this guy made the mistake of assuming that I was a turnip and not someone with more than a passing interest in music. So PRS stands for (the ) Performing Rights Society and it is a private limited company. Their stated aim is to recompense artists for the copyright exposure in public venues.
For example BGM in shopping malls pubs etc . There is also a chunk of that £260 that is meant to cover the lost revenue of for example one of our regulars bursting into song and unleashing a Johnny Cash number.
Now I did note that this fellah was driving a nice late model Beemer.
So I says to him you are getting nothing. And he says as I knew he would that it is the law. So here we have a private company underpinned by some legislation.
Why did I say no. If you were to go through all of our CD collection I doubt if you could find one single artist that has benefitted as a result of the activities of this outfit, a point that I made robustly to the rep.
I put it another way to him 'If you can find one artist in amongst that collection whom you can assert has received monies from your company, then I will give you your cheque '
So he spends about ten minutes flipping through --- Sonny Landreth 'who's that ? ' and so on.
Needless to say he went away empty handed but of course there followed an avalanche of threatening letters etc.

My idea of supporting musicians is to pay them to come and play , not to pay some con men with legal sanction to run around in nice cars and so on.:banghead:

JBL 4645
10-04-2008, 06:24 PM
That sounds like a load of bollocks, someone wanting money for the above that I just read, what did you all do give him the 1000 yard stare and told him to piss off. LOL flipping though the CD’s “Sonny Landreth 'who's that” Well I’ve heard of Johnny Cash “the man in black” but this guy sounds like a right Muppet,:blink: flipping cheek.

SEAWOLF97
04-17-2010, 11:55 AM
Dispute Heats Up Over Proposed New Fees for Playing Songs on the Radio

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08royalty.html

For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels.

jcrobso
04-17-2010, 05:11 PM
The NAB is fighting this BIG TIME! If the law as it is currently written most of the money will to record companies that are foreign owned like Sony & BGM. NOT TO THE ARTISTS!!!!
In today economy many radio stations are on the border line and many networks have filled for chapter 11.
Many stations would have to go bankrupt if they had to pay this new royalty tax. :banghead:

Radio stations have made many artists famous and promoted their records for free most of the time. This is like biting the hand that feeds you1:banghead:
We won't talk about payola, I have to sign a statement every year at the station saying that I have never accepted payola, I don't EVER get to decided what is played.:blink:

What should happen the artist getting together and fighting the record companies over the slave recording contracts. Back in the early 1960 Frank Sinatra started his own record company, because he was tired of the way they treated the artists!
The Artists make most of their money from touring.
Many time the record company forces the writer of the song to add the company as the co-writer of the song so the company can get most of the royalties!:biting:
So who is the bag guy, the radio stations or the record companies & their Henchmen the RIAA.
FYI: the federal trade commission has found the record companies and the RIAA guilty of price fixing!!!

Don't feel sorry for the record company, The slave contract says that the artist is just a hired hand and the company owns every note of music you played in the studio! Just like the construction worker on the damn!
Yes many artist get a raw deal, but it's not the radio stations fault!

ninjashoes
05-15-2010, 10:28 AM
If I was an artist nowadays I would just give my music away in this day and age its too hard to make money by selling CD's. You might as well just hope for a hit and go tour.

SEAWOLF97
06-27-2013, 10:11 AM
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Labels to get, count them, 0.13 cents per play on Apple iRadio

If the entire human race plays a tune, it makes ... $11m

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/27/apple_to_pay_musicians_013_cents_per_play_on_iradi o/

The fruity firm will hand over just 0.13 cents per play, along with 15% of their advertising revenue, according to reports (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/26/apple-spells-out-itunes-radio-terms-for-record-labels/). If the record label manages to survive a year on those kind of wages, Apple will whack up the payment to a mammoth 0.14 cents per listen, with 19% of ad revenue on top.


As stingy as this sounds, it's still a good 0.01 of a cent better than rival Pandora's deal, which pays labels just 0.12 cents and about half as much royalties.

And Pandora quits after a while and asks "Are you still listening ? " , cause we have to pay for the music.

DavidF
06-27-2013, 09:52 PM
In the oldie days a songwriter would try to get the attention of a publisher. The publisher would in turn market the song to known performers, bands, show producers, etc. so you wanted a publisher with good connections. Given the hustle nature of this kind of enterprise it was likely the song writers could easily get exploited, if not outright shafted.

Around the turn of the century (twentieth) cooperatives were created to license the use of the creative work product and set guidelines for enforcing licensing. ASCAP and BMI were the biggies that I recall. You wanted to use a song you went to these two (there were others no doubt)who would collect a fee for the use of the song in performances, movies, whatever. Users such as radio stations might keep logs of how many times the song was played in a day. ASCAP and BMI would then split up the fees to the one or more credited authors. After their cut, of course. At one time there were people paid to listen to radio or attend public events, check on recording label's output, etc. to perform a form audit. They couldn't pretend to collect every cent from every use of a given song but they could rely on form of honor system to collect the fair share.

The Times article you sited mentions the effort to gain some similar protections for the musicians on various recorded pieces. I wasn't aware of this long-standing gripe of the performers that was championed by Sinatra, and others. In the post-war recording era I can understand their side of the story.

Somewhere along the line someone mentioned to the Beatles that they should write their own music. That was wise. On the other hand Brian Epstein was too quick to sell the publishing rights for the early hits for some upfront cash. Otherwise Sir Paul may have become richer than the Royals.

SEAWOLF97
06-28-2013, 11:31 AM
In the oldie days a songwriter would try to get the attention of a publisher. The publisher would in turn ...

thanx for that David, I'm slowly understanding the topic more on each post. :blink:


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Labels to get, count them, 0.13 cents per play on Apple iRadio

on first reading I mistakenly thought the artist made 13 one hundredths of a cent per play ...re-reading I see that it's the label that makes that $00.0013 and takes their cut before the artist receives his/their $00.0003 or so ?

geeze, that's even less than a mil. (1/20th of a cent)

SEAWOLF97
07-31-2013, 06:59 PM
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a very interesting graph

How Musicians Really Make Money in One Long Graph
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/how-musicians-really-make-money-in-one-long-graph/249267/

SEAWOLF97
02-06-2015, 06:16 PM
things are changing since I first asked the question.

Can the music industry survive the streaming revolution?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/music-industry-survive-the-streaming-revolution/

SEAWOLF97
06-27-2015, 07:08 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/business/sirius-xm-settles-royalty-dispute-over-old-recordings.html

old defined as pre 1972

SEAWOLF97
08-22-2015, 10:25 PM
Streaming Music is Ripping You Off
Fight back with this simple hack

https://medium.com/cuepoint/streaming-music-is-ripping-you-off-61dc501e7f94

SEAWOLF97
08-02-2016, 04:05 PM
Why Donald Trump Should Have Gotten Song Permission from The Rolling Stones (But Not Queen)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/why-donald-trump-should-have-914367

Joseph Smith Jr
08-03-2016, 08:10 AM
Why Donald Trump Should Have Gotten Song Permission from The Rolling Stones (But Not Queen)


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/why-donald-trump-should-have-914367
Good luck with that
Hilarious, and to think it wasn't that long ago that Payola was the problem
Don't you just love the digital age?

Political conventions are private events. The solution to all of this much ado about nothing is simple
Just buy legitimately (as in actually pay MSRP cash money for it and be sure to save your receipt :)) an Lp, a cassette or a CD copy of the music you want to play and then play it for the enjoyment of your guests at your private party (let Barron Trump spin it up on his own personal sound system) :rotfl: I am pretty sure his Daddy could buy him one that was suitable for the venue

If the approved and credentialed electronic media representatives, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX PBS et cetera then choose to let it be heard during their broadcasts of the private party coverage, for ratings and profit, then they can be the ones with the legal problems like poor old Alan Freed and Dick Clark

If you'll notice, the youtubers who post their coverages of these events will always play canned music over the top of these well known intro and outro songs and bumper music to avoid this nonsense, yet if you watch a major network's coverage of the same event on youtube the songs actually used will be heard

Too funny

When the Republicans wrapped up their party with "You Can't Always Get What You Want" I felt the same way I did when the "Sopranos" ended by going to a black screen after 8 years

It was just too cool and pretty damn clever you'll have to admit regardless of your political leanings

30 plus years into the digital music thing and they still haven't figured it out in a way that makes everyone happy, or in a way to deal with the hypocrisy of some

The Who and their ever present warhorses selling everything from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" to Cadillacs? Yeah, no Republicans or Donald Trump fans ever watch THOSE shows and more than that, everyone KNOWS that no self respecting Republican would be caught dead in a Cadillac!

Or drinks Pepsi, or buys Apple products, or drinks Bud-it's nauseatingly ridiculous, these "stands" and "statements" being made

Oh yeah, that's it, that's the ticket, they paid 'em a lot of money :rotfl:
And that makes it "all good"?

I LOVE IT!

I doubt, in fact I'd bet my life on it, that anyone who tuned in to watch the Republican National Convention television broadcast did so because they knew in advance, or even gave two seconds thought to what songs they were going to play, or, whether anyone got paid or benefited from them in any way financially.

It's just too too funny

Artists should be paid for their work, period. I despise streaming and down loading and am probably one of the world's leading proponents of physical media, but this is ridiculous. And I believe that royalties should be properly paid when due, period

But you can't put something out there in the world on recordings for the public to purchase and listen to at home as well as to be broadcast over the many electronic mediums if all of the financial and legal requirements have been met in a FREE SOCIETY but then pick and choose who you're going to allow to like it, love it or even just play it at their party.........well, I guess you could but does that mean that Rock and Roll, just to use the example, was only intended to be enjoyed by a certain group or class of people? And who makes that distinction?

Besides, I thought it was all about "the message"? Maybe some of those evil folks might have a change of heart if only they could hear some old '60s burnout's words of enlightenment?

On the other hand, maybe I don't want some of the crap and filth floating around the airwaves nowadays being played over my electronics when it catches me off guard, so who can I sue?

These copyright rules and laws are all about protecting artists' financially and I am all for it, but when ideologies start to creep in, as for controlling it, disguised in claiming the guise of "fair play fair pay"?
Not so good, not so good at all. At least not if you want this to remain the freest nation on Earth

I don't think any of these artists or bands, like Springsteen for example, will ever be a proponent of a litmus test to buy any of his work at retail, do you? But who knows the way this world is going?
I just have always thought that that was the whole point of art, to make people happy and even more importantly to make them think and just maybe change minds

Talk about hypocrisy, narcissism and a pot calling the kettle black. If any of the music played at either or any of these sort of conventions will be the deciding factor in how and who people vote for then we've got a much more serious problem on our hands than some sort of vague, vanity driven copyright infringement violation

Joe

SEAWOLF97
01-15-2017, 11:50 AM
54 years later, you still have to pay to use Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/15/54-years-later-you-still-have-to-pay-to-use-martin-luther-king-jr-s-famous-i-have-a-dream-speech/?utm_term=.b0b1df34cf07

SEAWOLF97
01-18-2017, 08:31 PM
Paul McCartney Sues Sony Over Beatles Music

Musician files suits to "confirm his ownership" of dozens of Beatles songs

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-sues-sony-over-beatles-music-w461731

maybe SW kinda saw that one coming ?


so anyone really know ?

is it everytime your tune is played somewhere , you get paid ? how much ?
if one you wrote is rerecorded/covered ?
if McCartney plays a Beatle song in concert , but MJ owns the catalog, does he pay ? $ ?

idle minds need to know..........:)

SEAWOLF97
04-17-2021, 10:18 AM
Why It’s Misleading to Say ‘Apple Music Pays Twice as Much Per Stream as Spotify’

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/apple-music-pays-twice-stream-spotify-1234953590/