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I’d rather not get into the specific company here.
Understood. Good luck with your deal.
Is this the same company that assigns a portion of the writer’s share to a person that did not write the cue? Just curious…
Perhaps finding a music supervisor would be the best approach. It takes a great deal of work. But if you are serious about licensing, it will be worth it.
This business model is a train that a lot of people willingly jumped in front of, when many knowledgable people said “don’t do it.”
Granted, they changed the rules of the game midstream, but you really didn’t need a crystal ball to see that coming either.Pretty much.
Raising the initial price may help to at least get more money upfront.
Just keeping feeding the flames and they will grow.
@Advice, Thank you for the encouragement!My last quarter statement was a step in the right direction. I have experienced steady growth for the most part until now. I guess I will have to wait it out another 3 months for royalties to pick up.
Congrats on your successful quarter.
I just got my ASCAP payout today. I am not a happy camper. My royalties have dropped. I don’t understand why either. I have music in more shows.
Bummer. 🙁
Honestly, I do not know. I do not create that type of music. I have tried, but I do not have that skill set. I have listened to a lot of that music at exclusive libraries. The people who create that sort of music and do it well definitely have a gift.
I would love to hear some of your music if you do not mind sharing.
I would listen to the cues at the bigger, exclusive libraries and compare my music to those cues.
Composers are saying “Ahh screw it…I’ll just throw everything I have at them for free so long as they place these tracks on shows.”
Honestly, this is the approach I am taking. A few good companies are getting me placements. Everyone else is just going off of theory and speculation.
I have to follow the money. No one else is providing for me except the libraries getting me placements. To sit on the sidelines and hope to broker deals with people that will not even take my calls is not sensible.
I hope that my views are at least respected. My level of success or failure is for me to deal with.
Music libraries that don’t have a financial stake in the recorded works should have no entitlement to take any share of royalties. This is why licensing fees have eroded, because the music libraries didn’t invest in their products that they can afford to give it away for free, because they would get paid on the back end.
Is there anything that can be done about this now?
FWIW to anybody else out there…
I’m making over $100K in royalties this year from non-exclusive library placements. 99% of those placements are cable, not network.
Wow, that is awesome!
I am not there yet, not even close. But I have noticed that over 90% of my income is derived from blanket cable royalties.
I state again, I have custom composed music for a prime time network show, I signed a non exclusive deal with the production company & I kept the publishing, Jay stated earlier that his non exclusive track got used on a network show. Don’t sign your life away. Yeah sure, you could just write another track, but why not also use the tracks that you already have for opportunities you find yourself, or other markets (royalty free). Don’t blindly fall in line, just because the gate keepers tell you to…
Well how do I go about getting these opportunities? I always hear about these things happening for others. I just do not see the chance for me writing for a network show outside of a music library.
And I do not understand how I am being taken advantage of by a library, especially those that have helped me to make money from placements in the past. Is signing with a library exclusively really that bad? I thought the big libraries (PMA libraries) were all exclusive. I have heard of guys making a lot of money from those companies. I don’t think they share license fees with composers.
I don’t know. You guys make some great arguments for staying non-exclusive, but I do not think that will work for me. I simply do not have the connections or money to fly out to LA or NY for conferences. I am not going to worry about it. Doing what I am doing will not jeopardize me. I may make less money, but the stress of chasing down strangers to get my music placed does not seem worthy to me.
Thanks all!
@MichaelL, you have a wealth of experience and knowledge. Hopefully I will attain your level of success one day. Until then….