Comments on: So what do I make of this? http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39 Welcome aboard! My name is Frank L. Fox, and this is the place for what I learn, the way I see it, and things I ramble on about. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Frank Fox http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1832 Frank Fox Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:30:55 +0000 http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1832 Good point, Leslie. I get a quarterly report from ASCAP itemizing all royalties from various sources (basically a nicely formatted blank page) :) and there isn't a line item for online downloads. I know radio stations have to submit a playlist to ASCAP, but I don't know that YouTube-like sites are being regulated like that. so I doubt that when I use my own music in a machinima that it will generate performance royalties per play, or at all. You've got me thinking that maybe there is a source of revenue a songwriter can go after in my blog entry's scenario: YouTube! I may be distributing the cover tune I performed for free, but YouTube is getting banner ad revenue with every click-through and page impression, so that might be an interesting wrinkle. Good point, Leslie. I get a quarterly report from ASCAP itemizing all royalties from various sources (basically a nicely formatted blank page) :) and there isn’t a line item for online downloads. I know radio stations have to submit a playlist to ASCAP, but I don’t know that YouTube-like sites are being regulated like that. so I doubt that when I use my own music in a machinima that it will generate performance royalties per play, or at all.

You’ve got me thinking that maybe there is a source of revenue a songwriter can go after in my blog entry’s scenario: YouTube! I may be distributing the cover tune I performed for free, but YouTube is getting banner ad revenue with every click-through and page impression, so that might be an interesting wrinkle.

]]> By: Leslie McKay http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1831 Leslie McKay Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:47:42 +0000 http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1831 Good question! Would recording royalties on an MP3 only apply if the MP3 is downloaded, whether as a freebie or paid - or distributed on CD/tape? I wonder if ASCAP/BMI/SESAC are going after youtube (and the other similar Web 2 video sites) for performance/airplay royalties, since your single copy of the song, as sound track for video, is being heard by anyone running your clip - so it's basically like a TV station in that sense. Not that you, as backporch songwriter, would ever actually *see* a performance royalty check from ASCAP... Good question! Would recording royalties on an MP3 only apply if the MP3 is downloaded, whether as a freebie or paid - or distributed on CD/tape?

I wonder if ASCAP/BMI/SESAC are going after youtube (and the other similar Web 2 video sites) for performance/airplay royalties, since your single copy of the song, as sound track for video, is being heard by anyone running your clip - so it’s basically like a TV station in that sense. Not that you, as backporch songwriter, would ever actually *see* a performance royalty check from ASCAP…

]]> By: Hugh "Nomad" Hancock http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1825 Hugh "Nomad" Hancock Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:22:30 +0000 http://flingfilms.com/wordpress/archives/39#comment-1825 If you do find out, let me know. I'd also DEARLY love to know the status on this. (If I'd been more certain, there would have been a hell of a lot of cover versions on BloodSpell.) If you do find out, let me know. I’d also DEARLY love to know the status on this.

(If I’d been more certain, there would have been a hell of a lot of cover versions on BloodSpell.)

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