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As for my personal experience – I have had music in several episodes of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” It is one of the most watched shows that airs on Crackle. So you would think I’d see even a fee bucks for this. What I was told was although ASCAP does have a deal with them – Crackle has not turned in any performance data. And although they are “required” to do so – nobody is hunting them down to do it. So what that equals is the money is not getting to the composers. Keep in mind this is only what I was told by ASCAP – May not be the exact truth.

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I’m also a huge fan of the Sound Toys plugins – some of the best money I’ve spent

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It will be very interesting to see how Sling TV and Playstation VUE do. They offer a lot of what cable does for way less money.

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MichaelL that’s am awesome question. I’ve only had one major network placement so far ……which I assume will pay more than cable but haven’t gotten paid yet. My cable placements are very consistent from Jingle Punks but per placement (airing) going over $50 is definitely the exception on my statement rather than the norm.

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That is an interesting take Paolo. You’re making the point that it is possible that composers having too much of an open voice on success could cause a company to get “full of themselves” and change their policies, cuts etc. I’m not sure if I believe that’s a reason as to why so few responded to this – but it is nevertheless a point I did not consider. Thanks for your take Paolo.

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This is great! Thanks for posting it.

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Thanks to those who responded. I’m kind of surprised at how few people were willing to respond to this though. Do writers/composers feel they need to keep this answer “secret” out of fear that the tv library they write for will become a larger sea of fish? On the other hand, I suppose the argument could be made that the library ratings speak this in an anonymous way.

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Cool DI…i know what you mean. I have heard a few good things about Korg Gadget for iPad – has anyone tried that one?

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Awesome analogy!

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She also sent me a copy too by the way….which I provided to ASCAP. Got am email from them saying all is good and the cue sheets will be processed and paid out on the next statement.

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Ok I have a simple cue sheet success story. A library I am involved with placed a single cue many times on 106 and Park on BET. As of being considerably past due, I reached out to ASCAP to look into the cue sheets. Long story short is that I was not included on them. At the time I wasn’t sure as to what library placed it – so I reached out to BET to find out who produces the show and learned that it is mostly in house production. They put me in touch with someone in music administration who was extremely nice and helpful. She looked up the cue sheets in question and saw I was not included. I sent her over the TuneSat reports….that was key. She went over it with the producers and amended the cue sheets and resubmitted to ASCAP.

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Hey Advice that’s cool. Did you check to see if Reelz is on the census survey for ASCAP? Hopefully it’s not on the sample survey.

I am an ASCAP member and although if I had to start again I may have joined BMI (had I known id be doing more library music) – I do however have to say ASCAP has definitely increased the amount of channels that pay on the census. At least it seems that way. That – I am happy about.

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I don’t exactly feel clear as to what rights you are giving them to your music? For example – I know it says you can be a member of ASCAP or BMI and join Soundreef. But what about the fact that if you have music with Audiosparx and get paid through Radiosparx in store play?

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I spoke to a managerial rep at ASCAP – he was as curious as I am as to if there is a legal requirement to turn them in. He honestly believes there must be writing in a networks license agreement with ASCAP that requires them to turn in cue sheets and within a certain time frame. He said he will be reaching back out to me in the next couple of weeks with what he finds out from their legal department.

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Mark you are right. I mistyped that – meant to say I’m sure there isn’t any federal or state law that mandates turning in cue sheets. But is there a legally binding agreement between any two parties at all to turn them in? Between PRO and network? Or can a network and their production companies simply just decide to never turn them in, pay their blanket license fees and face no consequence. If that’s the case why bother paying people to complete any cue sheets – waste of payroll.

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