RE: Samples and looping

[Anders Bergdahl <anders_e_bergdahl@hotmail.com>]

I understand what you say, But, what Lougi argues for is that if someone creates a peice of music, anyone can take it remixit, or rerecord it with a well known artist and the composer would not get anything at all. (sort of like Big Mama Thornton wrote "hound Dog" with out getting a cent from Elvis' HUGE succes...)
Of course this discussion is somewhat obsolete in the modern world.
THe software music creators get payd for thier wiotk just as the classical composers often wrote on commision.  A good model... but is is it OK for an other Game company to lift the music and use it in thier game for free??? What about the first company who payed someona a good salary to get the music in the first place...  

 
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:53:45 +0200
> Subject: Re: Samples and looping
> From: perboysen@gmail.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Anders
> Bergdahl<anders_e_bergdahl@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > If you make 100 000$ on remiastereing and reselling a tune I have composed
> > and recorded should you have all the money??
>
> Yes, that's the way it works. The work the record label does is to
> remaster the recording, print copies and distribute them. None of that
> is the work of the composer. He made the music, not the recording or
> the CD record copies. The composer gets paid when his music is used
> for playback or performance in public or for commercial reasons.
> However, if a lable puts out new copies of a recording of music you
> have composed it is likely that the use of this music will increase,
> and that means more money goes to you.
>
> If you as the composer are also the artist whose performance (of your
> composition) was recorded for this product, then it is a different
> situation; then you (the artist) would get a small cut of the label's
> income of record sales.
>
>
> > If so it means that the unknown
> > composers should count on heving their best peices stolen so that the well
> > known artist can use their art to make BIG money...
>
> Yup, that's what they do! The business model for that is called
> "placing tracks". You compose a song and take help from a publisher to
> find an artist with millions of fans and an active record company to
> record the song and release it. The record company gets the royalty
> from sold records (and some performance compensation when the song is
> played on air in countries that give this), the artist gets a cut for
> the record sales via the label (6% up to 20%) (and some performance
> compensation when the song is played on air in countries that give
> this). You, as the composer, get your part out of the "publishing
> money", which is the big part of what radio and television stations,
> shopping malls etc pays for the right to use the music and this is
> normally split with 66% to you and 33% to your publisher. In some
> countries a 50/50 cut on publishing is also common.
>
> Per
>