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Hey Per, thanx for mentioning this,i have no idea if the Gema is really working for me i am absolutely blind when it comes to this, the reason why i joined them back when we released our first CD is because you are forced to before CD duplication.I think this is bullshit forcing starting artists to pay a fee, the gema should allow new artists pressing from 500 to 1000 copies Gema free.The way i see it this organizations are only worth it if u are selling like hot pankakes, the are now plagued with burocrats smoking cigars getting richer and richer.We sold over 10,000 of our first CD back in 1998 and it took about 4 years to get any money from them!i can see also how this serves only as an obstacle for anything new musically happening,ive been turned down to play unwillingly forbar owners in some places in Munich because they had to pay big fines for even playing a CD!same thing with the fee you are forced to pay here for listening to crap radio and TV plagued with loud commercials. My quesion is how do we songwriters know where our music is being played and where the Gema is collecting? the statements that i get from them dont specify anything and also what happens if you dont belong to any performing rights organizations,that is where does the money goes? do you think that the scandinavian STIM would be any better? cheers Luis > > Speaking PRO's, it seems to me the Scandinavian > based STIM does a > pretty good job. But it all depends on you, as the > author of your > work, to properly register your work with the PRO. > There are > different kind of legal rights to music, the > author's rights are the > biggest part. Then there are so called neighboring > rights as well, > i.e. the rights of musicians that played on a > recording without > actually being the composer of the music. In Sweden > there is a > special "PRO" for those neighboringrights called > SAMI (Swedish > Artist's and Musician's Interest organization). I > recently, totally > unexpectedly, received a bit over a thousand > dollars that way for > "air plays abroad". No specification on which > country or which > recordings, so there's no way to know if the figure > is correct or > not. Maybe some track, with me as studio musician, > became a radio hit > somewhere in the world? It's like a lottery, I > think. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > > > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367