That time again as the quarterly BMI payment was on June 24th. Always a fascinating exercise reconciling my BMI statement with my Tunesat detections. I’m much more incentivized now as I recently collected a decent size license fee for an unauthorized use of one of our cues. I would have never known about it if it hadn’t been for Tunesat. No, I don’t work for them but they do give me a bit of a break for my running their banner ad. I was a client before the break and would be if there wasn’t one.
OK back to the spreadsheet!
Just this week I started getting a lot of Tunesat detections of one track on Belgium TV VT4. How do I go about finding out if I should get royalties or not?
Wow 22 pages. Imagine how many pages you can look forward to reconciling once you do make a living with this…:)
Yeah, hurts my brain. Truly a business of pennies but I have always maintained that I would rather have a large amount of small payers than a few very large ones. If one of those large ones go away it puts a big hole in your income. If a few of the small ones go away it’s not that big a deal.
Hey Art, let us know if you find any other goodies with this quarter’s statement.
Will do, still working on it. Gets more challenging as more gets placed with different libraries. This last statement was 22 pages long! Still not a living wage so it really is a numbers game.
Hey Art,
If you find work on Tunesat that doesn’t show up on a BMI return, will BMI take Tunesat’s proof-of performance and pay you accordingly?
Also, you mentioned one example above of finding stuff on Tunesat that wasn’t on BMI (if I understand correctly). Have you found a lot of other examples like this?
Thanks much,
Len
They will most likely research, not take it verbatim. I have found the most examples with commercials that are purchased on RF sites. I follow up with the company, get a copy of the commercial and file the Jingle Data Sheet with BMI. I also give BMI a spreadsheet of the Tunesat detections.
Thanks, Art. I just wanted to make sure they didn’t dismiss it due to the fact the info wasn’t coming from one of their services.
Len
-Art,
After registering the commercials with BMI did you get some kind of acknowledgement from them?
I sent in commercials registration in September 2012 and have not heard anything yet nor have they downloaded the QuickTime. Is it like TV & film placement where it often doesn’t show in your works catalog until the quarter they are paying? Thanks!
I have to follow up with them, haven’t been very good about it.