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| URL: | http://www.beatorchard.com | |
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| Accepting Submissions: | Yes | |
| Submit Online: | Yes | |
| Submit By Mail: | Yes | |
| Submissions Reviewed: | Yes | |
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| Charge For Submissions: | No | |
| Up Front Money: | No | |
| Royalty Free: (non-broadcast use) |
Yes | |
| Exclusivity: (Exclusive, Non, Semi) (Semi = Free to place on own but not with another library) |
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| Re-Title: | No | |
| Set Own Price: | Unknown | |
| Contract Length: | 1 Year | |
| Payment Schedule: | Monthly | |
| License Fee Split: (writer/library) |
50/50 | |
| PRO Split Based on 100%: (writer/library writer/library/publisher or writer) |
100/0 | |
| Requires Licensee To File Cue Sheet: | No | |
| Pays On Blanket License: | ||
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| Active Site: | No | |
| Offers Subscriptions To Clients: | ||
| Notes: | Formally Zukkio, now Beat Orchard. |
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Hi Joachim
I’ve seen the FB posts, but they look a lot like automatic posts … I highly doubt the guy will answer, but I guess it’s worth trying. Let us know how it goes! 🙂
Hi, I just tried to check this library for sales since months back and found out about all this mess. Actually I did get some money from them for a handfull of sales last year so this really surprised me. However, I just wanted to tell you their facebook account is still alive (https://www.facebook.com/beatorchard?fref=ts) I just sent them a private message. I am not encouraging anyone to spam their FB site but in one of their recent posts they say they love feedback and comments…
Besides the amount of money that might not have been paid to composers it is still really important to make sure that your music is absolutely deleted from his servers and backup archives and that your business relationship with him has officially ended.
I have been in this situation before where a business partner in another country could not create a functional website or business model but he had our music catalog on his servers.
I had to threaten my contact to the company to get to the CEO to finally get a signed letter stating that our music was deleted from their servers and the defunct company was no longer allowed to use our music in any way and that all business agreements were terminated.
It seems like a good thing to get in this case too so that your music does not end up in other hidden distribution systems or in youtube contentID.
Besides monies lost it is really important to protect your music catalog.
+1
Where’s the “like” button?
like, like, like
the problem: how do we talk to this guy?
I emailed to info@johnradfordmusic.co.uk but the email bounced back …
It would be REALLY nice if someone in the UK (or … anyone through skype) could call that number that Art found .. (I would do it myself, even though I live outside the UK, but my conversational english is just not good enough, especially on the phone)
I did find the e-mail address of a John Radford, based in the UK (as is the Beat Orchard domain name)and is a production music composer according to his web site http://www.johnradford.net. I’ve e-mailed him to see if he is the same person. It’s probably a common name so we’ll see.
Haven’t received a reply from my e-mail yet.
According to this John Radford he runs another website http://www.borneagency.com/. It’s located in London and the phone number is +44 (0) 207 112 8645. Anyone in the UK want to follow up?
Now this John Radford may not have anything to do with Beat Orchard but it is a lead.
Art,
I am pretty sure it’s the same guy. In his twitter account the Beat Orchard tweets are systematically retweeted. In some tweets he even tries to promote Beat Orchard. It really looks like he’s our guy.
There are still postings here https://twitter.com/BeatOrchard but they look like they may be automated.
who cares? If he never payed, why would he pay now? Expose this crook.
Yes. I hope it all works out. Being taken advantage of is not right.
You are too optimistic my friend by thinking that he would come here again :)))