[Pi-Qui]

Remarkable, many CEO's of radiostations "steal" rights of music from artists who want to have airplay. It works like this. A band only gets airplay if the artist transfers the rights of the music to the radiostation that features the band. Many CEO's have the rights to that music without ever playing or
composing one note. And get the royalties for long periods of time. By good investigative journalism this was brought into the light, none
of the music magazines involved in the same parasitism ever mentioned this practice in their colums or whatsoever.
Hundreds of millions in royalties went in this way to these parasites for years. Artists who didnt agree to this "rule" of the tv/radiostations just didn't get any airplay.
Now we know this is true. The music industry has very strange "rules" when it comes to digital rights of music. We refused to transfer rights, so we get no airplay, still we hope you give us a listen, down tempo dreamy music http://bit.ly/gb5a4P

[Scott Dorsey]

Pi-Qui wrote:
Remarkable, many CEO's of radiostations "steal" rights of music from artist=
s who want to have airplay. It works like this. A band only gets airplay if=
the artist transfers the rights of the music to the radiostation that feat=
ures the band. Many CEO's have the rights to that music without ever playin=
g or
composing one note. And get the royalties for long periods of time. By good=
investigative journalism this was brought into the light, none
of the music magazines involved in the same parasitism ever mentioned this =
practice in their colums or whatsoever.=20

In what country does THIS happen? Certainly not in the US where the record
labels have traditionally been stronger than the radio industry.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Richard Kuschel]

On Jan 27, 8:42*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Pi-Qui wrote:
Remarkable, many CEO's of radiostations "steal" rights of music from artist=
s who want to have airplay. It works like this. A band only gets airplay if=
the artist transfers the rights of the music to the radiostation that feat=
ures the band. Many CEO's have the rights to that music without ever playin=
g or
composing one note. And get the royalties for long periods of time. By good=
investigative journalism this was brought into the light, none
of the music magazines involved in the same parasitism ever mentioned this =
practice in their colums or whatsoever.=20

In what country does THIS happen? *Certainly not in the US where the record
labels have traditionally been stronger than the radio industry.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

It isn't as complicated nor a conspiiracy as Pi-Qui seems to point
out.

Commercial terrestrial based radio stations in the US do not pay any
royalties to artists. Royalties are paid to songwriters.

If a Bob Dylan song is covered by the Byrds and played on the radio,
Bob gets a royalty but not Roger McGuinn & Company.

The US is one of the few countries that has this arrangement.

The reason for this had to do with a concept that airplay was free
advertising for the artists. It had merit in the past, but since the
advent of copying and IT theft rather than buying a 45, this model is
obsolete,

Internet radio and satellite radio must pay both artist and songwriter
royalties.

[Ty Ford]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:17:50 -0500, Pi-Qui wrote
(in article
):

Remarkable, many CEO's of radiostations "steal" rights of music from artists
who want to have airplay. It works like this. A band only gets airplay if the

artist transfers the rights of the music to the radiostation that features
the band. Many CEO's have the rights to that music without ever playing or
composing one note. And get the royalties for long periods of time. By good
investigative journalism this was brought into the light, none
of the music magazines involved in the same parasitism ever mentioned this
practice in their colums or whatsoever.
Hundreds of millions in royalties went in this way to these parasites for
years. Artists who didnt agree to this "rule" of the tv/radiostations just
didn't get any airplay.
Now we know this is true. The music industry has very strange "rules" when it

comes to digital rights of music. We refused to transfer rights, so we get no

airplay, still we hope you give us a listen, down tempo dreamy music
http://bit.ly/gb5a4P

Where and how are these rights transferred? Radio stations pay lots of money
to BMI or ASCAP so they can play music.

Regards,

Ty Ford


--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
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[William Sommerwerck]

Where and how are these rights transferred? Radio
stations pay lots of money to BMI or ASCAP so
they can play music.

Indeed. That system was set up long ago. The station keeps track of what it
plays, and pays royalty fees.

[Ty Ford]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:29:44 -0500, PStamler wrote
(in article
):

On Jan 28, 12:19*pm, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
Where and how are these rights transferred? Radio
stations pay lots of money to BMI or ASCAP so
they can play music.

Indeed. That system was set up long ago. The station keeps track of what it
plays, and pays royalty fees.

Not exactly, if you're talking about over-the-air radio. The station
pays a flat fee to ASCAP, another to BMI, and a third to SESAC. Every
now and again there's a sampling period where the station keeps track
of what it plays, but mostly it doesn't, if it's only a broadcast
service. The royalties are divvied up among the song authors on the
basis of the sampling period.

For internet broadcasters it's a different story; they do have to keep
track of what songs they play, all the time, because in that medium
there are performance royalties in addition to authors' royalties, and
it's done on a one-for-one basis, no sampling.

Peace,
Paul

Well "radiostations" means OTA broadcasters to me and I think the fee is
negotiated by market size. At least it used to be when I was Ops mgr at WIYY
Baltimore.

It was a HUGE part of the operating budget. Over $100K a year, I think.

Regards,

Ty Ford

--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
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