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My attempt at humor.You know how some of these groups throw members off at the least controversial comment?
JRWell I know I’ll get thrown off the report for this following comment:
Yes the PRO‘,s are not beyond guilt in these kinds of situations, but neither are composers. We composers are trapped in a very rough situation. That’s why I and many other composers have been pushing for a guild just for composers – songwriters possibly. Collective bargaining. Ever hear of it, it works. My evidence; the Teamsters union. Film people don’t mess with them. Filmmakers and Music users, producers, Tv etc. will mess with the AFM and mess with ASCAP and BMI, skirt around the rules and contracts and pay as little Royalty’s to them as possible. They are very reluctant to mess with SAG and AFTRA both very good strong guilds. So that’s the conundrum. I know there will never be a guild. And I know Composer’s will continue to bow down to “music suppliers”
Music and Composers are treated as commodities, by these people, just like bread and milk. We just have to fumble along and make the best of it.
I Look forward to your comments, sorta.. JRAdmittedly I didn’t read all the replies to arts situation as posted here, but wouldn’t the library have something to say about this situation? That is aren’t they sharing in the revenue stream? Sorry if I’m overstepping bounds here but I’m new with this site, And music library’s.