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Same here Art. My ASCAP income outweighs my RF because of volume, also mostly non-exclusive. But if I compare a single cable blanket placement to a single RF sale, then I come up with a difference of RF being ten times higher. But that may not matter much if the volume of RF sales is ten times less than TV placements! Anyway, I’m glad to participate in both models.
>”We listened and we love your music and we want to represent it”<
Is it possible that their critical listening comes later? For example, you do the paperwork and upload say 30 cues. They listen to your uploads and reject 15 of them? So this initial listening of just 10 seconds was only to get you to the next step?
It sure would have been nice if to even things out BI went up instead of BV going down….
Blind: I don’t know about BMI but with ASCAP (dist date is also tomorrow 6/22)
FWIW- ASCAP’s distribution today is for publishers. Writers will be July 9th I think it is.
MichaelL: Not $450.00 or $4,500.00? So… if you amortize $45 over the amount of time that it took to upload and tag 181 tracks, you’re well below minimum wage into the negative earnings column.
Yikes!Yep, a whole $45.00 and into the negative earnings column. But who knew when uploading and tagging it wouldn’t work. That was before MLR! (and yes, referring to musicsupervisor.com)
181 tracks, 260 plays, 16 downloads and a placement paying $45.00.
Not sure how long I’ve been there.Yeah, I bet they would have made a big deal of it in the press release if the BI rate was actually going up!
You can put covers on musicsupervisor.com. I have some but never a placement…
I last posted about this on the JP forum just a day ago. I’m the Michael at the end of the topic “The FAQ does say “for a license fee”, not for free… ” I posted because a while back, Dan, the JP co-founder said they would not issue blanket licenses to Scripps networks anymore because they did not pay backend. Then I saw a JP user post that recently TuneSat picked up Scripps networks placements of his or her music.
I trust that Dan gave us truthful information, so one of these four scenarios must be happening:
JP is now paying sync fees to composers for these placements, like ScoreKeepers.
The Scripps Networks are now paying backend.
The JP artist was mistaken about his or her recent Scripps networks placements.
Scripps networks licensed the songs under the blanket before JP stopped issuing them.As you say, no response from JP, but it has been taking awhile over there for responses to any question.
I personally cannot accept a placement that pays no sync fee or royalty as a cost of doing business. My music should not be on broadcast TV for zero in compensation to me. The library is getting paid, so why not me? My music has value, even if it is the lousy $1.50 in backend.
JP has a FAQ – “Is it possible that I will I ever receive no license money from a placement?” There are three reasons listed why:
1) any placements made under this will generate significant royalties
Not the case here.
2) placements made here will be beneficial for both you and Jingle Punks promotionally
A 14 second background placement buried under the dialog on a cable TV reality show is not good for me promotionally. Nobody really hears it or cares.
3) it will lead to paid placements by this client in the future.
In this case placements by this client in the future will also mean no sync fee or backend.
Again, I trust Dan’s at JP information. It’s probably not a big deal, just a misunderstanding. Seeing as you guys are seeing recent Scripps networks placements from JP, it must be that these were licensed before JP stopped issuing the blakent. Hopefully, JP will clear it up soon on their forum.
>The Scott Garrigus book has also made my life a bit easier.<
Yes, doing some training helped me also. I spent some time recently going through the trainings at http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONARU.aspx
Even more helpful were the webinars on youtube:
Some X1 Producer features I'm glad I learned more about are Track Templates, Screen Sets, AudioSnap and the Browser. It's funny, I got a big project with a client right afterward and the time I had recently put into studying X1 and Sound Forge really paid off!