[kristopherfisher]

Ah, so update!

The PRS are demanding I submit overseas claims for all of these, which will take forever (1800 different tracks).
If that wasnt bad enough, you have to then match each one up to their database of cue sheets, the issue here is:

1. The data from TuneSat states the ‘show’ it was used on, however in reality the music was used on a broadcasters advert cuts. So it wasnt used on ‘Titanic’ rather it was used on by Fox to advertise other content inbetween the viewing of ‘Titanic’, for example.

2. There are no cue sheets, becasue A its a broadcasters commercial break and they havent submitted any cue sheets, and B they are are not in the PRS database.

So I am now at a loss as to what to do.

Any tips?

[kristopherfisher]

Well, first of all, that’s pretty good news that you got broadcast placements through NE libraries while being neglectful! Your music must be good.

Thanks, TBone, total ignorance on my part, basically I signed up to the PRS but didn’t submit any work, but had my work on NE libraries doing well but unfortunately had been dealing with some pretty awful depression and basically didn’t write or look at anything for a 5 year period. Good news is, I’m back baby!

Having said that, I’m not entirely sure what you would do in this case. I think you could approach PRS with your data from TuneSat and explain. See what they recommend. If they don’t seem to know how to help, keep asking for different people until you get someone with experience in international royalties from production music. You could also try contacting ASCAP and explaining to them too.

I contacted the PRS today and a very helpful advisor explained it all to me, and they have asked me to send in the spreadsheet with the TuneSat data for processing, so fingers crossed its going to get somewhere. They did say they cannot go back further than 3 years, but luckily for me 90% of the data is within 3 years.

Have you been paid anything from PRS for this advert yet? Or was it for a different TV show?

I was paid for one placement from a show back in 2018, even though I hadn’t submitted any work to the PRS, seems like it was the combination of honesty from ASCAP submission side plus some good due diligence from PRS.

Hopefully thats me sorted and finally on track with the whole PRO side of things.

[kristopherfisher]

Hi TBone, thanks for your reply.

Around 90% are from the USA, so ASCAP/BMI. The rest are EU.
This is where I may be showing my ignorance, as I do not have a publisher.
I simply made some music, got it online through various NE libraries.

I’m so out of touch, and while my content has been used for quite a while, I have been TOTALLY neglective of the whole PRO side of things, and this is me just trying to unravel the mess!

[kristopherfisher]

Thanks Art!

I’ve taken a look through the previous posts and Competitrack (Numerator) comes up quite a bit, I think it’s for submitting cues exclusively from adverts within ASCAP regions, am I getting that right?

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