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Not usually but possibly if your track is listed in the credits.
Today’s international statement was 146 pages long. It paid only $232.96 more than a SIX page statement from 2010.
Absolutely! I did hundreds of work for hire songs for educational projects over my career. There were times I would stop and think wait, haven’t I written this already?
Same pennies here. Probably not worth chasing.
Reading this topic, I did some math on mine. I got $146.34 for the category “Internet: Audio/Visual”. Total streams across all the services was 12,318,256. Average timing equals 26 seconds. Average payout per stream – 0.000012.
This is a big reason a 100 page statement pays out the same as an 11 or 12 page statement did 10 or 12 years ago. I don’t find it worth the effort anymore.
If a library asked me to “develop a piece of music, don’t just build on a loop!” I would definitely listen to a few examples that they feel meets this criteria, in the style you will be providing. No better way to learn what it is they mean.
The lyrical content will matter also. A song about meeting a girl named Joan in 2003 at a Christmas party is going to have limited use. Keep it generic.
I’ve been in 29 episodes of Impractical Jokers through JP. Never seen the show though 🙂
I think SoundScape is in Canada. But it is also a subscription library.
If you are submitting tracks to Crucial Music you do have to register them with a PRO before submitting. They use the registration as verification of rights holders.
Aside from the education, it’s also about the people you meet during those years. I still work with musicians and friends that I met at Berklee so many years ago!
Is this what you’re referencing?
I think they may have been referring to licensing issues. For example, most licenses state that the sounds may not be used in isolation, they must be combined with one or more other elements. Some licenses state that compositions using their sounds cannot be placed in music libraries at all. Composers breaking these agreements make problems for publishers, libraries and etc.
And yes, samples/loops from Splice could potentially cause issues. Read the Splice licensing agreement closely and always work within its parameters.
Berklee grad here also though about 100 years ago 🙂
at the very least making it not worth the effort to continue
This is very perceptive Michael. It may not be AI alone right now, but all factors combined that can make it not worth the effort to continue. AI plus shrinking percentages, lack of upfront money, lack of or no sharing of sync fees, subscription services, TV and radio streaming paying pennies, libraries that once earned either out of business or no loner earning. I’m sure I’ve missed some. I hope there are some able to navigate through this and succeed. As you know, I’m personally on a break from submitting exactly because the decline in income just isn’t making it worth the effort.
There is also the point of even finding a decent library offering non-exclusive representation these days. One that actually earns and doesn’t take 75%, or offer a subscription plan. So many of the non-exclusives went exclusive some time ago. And income from the ones that haven’t has dried up, at least for me.