Re: OT: Pay royalties for own music on own website?

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Per,i failed to mention that some of those CDs have been sold to DJs who 
also have radio stations and i was under the assumption that they are 
paying those fees they are required to,but some of those stations are also 
internet stations and i honestly dont know how that works.Years ago some 
friends here told me that they heard a small snippet of a song from our CD 
on a radio station and thats what prompted me back then to call them.I 
still dont understand how they can keep track of all the music thats being 
played around the world unless those GEMA forms are being filled out, and 
i havent received those statements where it says exactly where your 
performance rights royalties are being generated like Erdem is saying.But 
my GEMA fees have gotten higher and i am debating wether is still worth it 
being with them.

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: OT: Pay royalties for own music on own website?
> To: labaloops@yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:29 AM
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, L.Angulo
> <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This is something i dont like about the GEMA they dont
> seem very transparent like the service you are with,in the
> past we had sold over 10,000 CDso with a couple of my own
> originals and didnt see a paycheck until i called them and
> asked them what was happening.Then for a while all was cool
> getting checks and now again for the last 3 years all i get
> is their bill and i know the CDs keep selling (although more
> in the States than here)
> 
> "Selling"? But GEMA is no record label that ought
> to pay you a
> percentage of the sales (sales royalties). Isn't GEMA
> mostly looking
> after the composer's rights? Like if your music is
> played in public,
> on radio etc. I.e. representing your performance rights.
> 
> Maybe they handle mechanical licensing rights as well, I
> don 't know,
> and then it makes sens that not more money are coming if no
> more discs
> are manufactured.
> 
> per