Comments on: Song Street Records

By: Art

Art — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:57:26 +0000

Thanks everyone, got them updated to reflect their new name and deal.

By: oontz oontz

oontz oontz — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:35:39 +0000

Thats good,

Re-titling hurts the production music industry about as much as file-sharing hurt the pop record industry.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:05:03 +0000

Matt, they are not paying upfront. But this is the second deal I have heard about in a week where they are asking for exclusivity without any upfront money. I think the re-title movement may have hit a speedbump. Both deals said they didn’t want to deal with pitching a re-titled track. I’m going to try them out with a few tracks and see how they do. I write a lot, so I don’t feel I’d be losing too much to give them some older tracks.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:39:32 +0000

Interesting… I wonder if we’re going to start seeing this more and more throughout the library business. If more libraries are going to start paying for exclusive tracks, then great! If they start wanting music exclusively for free … not so great.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:25:13 +0000

It sounds like they are being consistent then. Thanks for the update.

By: Mark Canty

Mark Canty — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:37:45 +0000

That’s true. I received notice through the mail that they would not be able to keep any tracks that were not exclusive to their library.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:36:35 +0000

They’ve just changed their name to Song Street Records, and it sounds like they’ve changed their contract terms as well. They said they are now using an exclusive agreement.

By: Dp

Dp — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:23:40 +0000

Well that is exactly right.Do you want to spend time being a writer or a publisher.
Of course the best of both worlds is to do both and hire who you need to fill the gaps.This is essentially what I did for someone else though I am on my own now.
I was the composer and former employer the business man and musician to but who had a lawyer in his best interest and not mine.He composed also but he was not at all hip but corny sells too.Sure could BS though but that only gets you so far.This business has really changed over the last few years and hiring composers is not necessarily the norm where licensing now is.Maybe we will come full circle but we shall live the mystery.
Remember that most contracts never say you cant be a publisher yourself even the exclusive ones.I have never seen that in the contracts i have read,again how are they going to find out.Sick theLibrary police on you.I highly doubt it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:24:00 +0000

Hey DP, my issue with the ‘semi-exclusive’ deal is how libraries like this say it’s only ok if you go get the work yourself – but what about your own library? What if you developed your own company, got pretty successful, and competed with them for licenses? I guess they’re betting that most composers won’t want to trouble themselves with starting a library company.

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