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By: Dave Thompson

Dave Thompson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:46:25 +0000

lets face it kids and ipods are the rule. records cds tapes forget it. The rolling Stones have the best biz mod sell out lodes of seats around the world the rest is soveniers.

By: Maestro Billy

Maestro Billy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:59:33 +0000

Brian,
Seinfeld rules !
Here we also have royalties paid from TV and radio (sometimes radio, lots of legal issues and fights on this area), but regarding internet…
How to get paid for that ?
There’s an article about this in Portuguese saying that YouTube paid about US$ 16 for Stock, Aitken & Waterman due to Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley. That Rick Roll stuff generated 1,600,000 views for You Tube and all they paid was this ridiculous amount…

By: Brian Casel

Brian Casel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:22:45 +0000

@Maestro (the name reminds me of that seinfeld episode ; )

Thanks for your comments. It does seem like the artist performing a cover always reaps most if not all the reward for a great song written by an unknown songwriter. Sad but true.

Writers still receive performance royalties when the music is played on TV, radio, etc. I’m currently posting a series of articles on this subject…

By: Maestro Billy

Maestro Billy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:08:56 +0000

Hi,
I’m a musical producer here in Sao Paulo – Brazil, and one of the biggest points of this issue in my country is about how one can be a songwriter and get money in this “new deal”.
Artists will surely find a way to get money prior to songwriters. Selling different materials or playing live, for instance. Even if they give their songs for free, some listeners/fans will buy rare material, remixes and other stuff.
But the songwriter. How can he/she make money on this ? They don’t play live, they aren’t directly connected to the listener/fan…
That’s one of the biggest issues here, since we have our local BMI/ASCAP that only cares about songwriters and, on the other hand, we have the editors that only cares about phonomechanical (?? In English?) rights, the ones regarding the artists and record companies.
How to conciliate this “free” for music when the songwriters, in this new format, probably will never see the color of any money ?
Best regards and congrats for the blog.

Maestro Billy
Sao Paulo – Brazil.

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