Sychronization License
Sync license is a license that is use with visual images when making your own music. The most reconizable example of this is a song in a moition picture. This happens when the song is played with actions on the screen on tv commercials, home video devices, etc. It does not include any commercials on the radio. Radio is not visual, so it is not considered sychronized. There are radio commercial licenses that are called transcription license. This license is specific towards radio.
What Are The Fees?
Fees depend on the suggnificant importance of the song in the ad. An example, if the song is used for 5 or 10 seconds in the ad for backround this is usually a unknown song. A major song would be a on camera full length major and popular song that is in a high budget motion picture. When you talk about commercial songs, the fees are heavily increased.
Here Is A Breakdown:
1. Moition picture sync license for a major film can range from $15,000 to $100,000 as they buy out the rights for usage.
2. Main title usage is a song that is played during opening credits of a film. $50,000 to $250,000.
3. End title usage is a song that is played during the end of the film credits. $35,000 to $100,000.
4. Indie films are low budget and can range anywhere from $2,500 to $7,000 wherever the song appears in the movie. A kicker deal should be considered. This gives the publisher a nice earning for a song if the film explodes in the box office. Kickers are 3 million in gross and you can make 4 times the amount from the begining.
5. TV, such as cable, free and satellite ranges around $6,500 to $8,500 for perpetuity rights. Pay television is the same as free tv, cable or satellite.
6. Foreign movies should outside the United States are usuallt a standard $15,000.
7. Home video. This is a program that is released later on home video can range from $8,500 to $10,000.
8. A tv theme song are based on how many episodes run. This can be a real money maker. Ranges from $4,000 to $10,000 per episode. Nice money. If a show runs for years and is sydicated, you can make a hugh amount of money.
9. Commons are what we call songs that are on tv shows on airplanes, bicycles, ships, etc. An original deal you make $1,000 to $3,000 which is a five year deal. It can be $2,000 to $3,000 for a perpetuity.
10. Commercials a song can make you some nice cash and range $75,000 to $350,000 for what is called national usage for tv and radio. These are one year deals at a time. If the song is popular and is a giant hit song, the contract can reach into the millions.
11. Video games in songs. If the song is a big hit $30,000. The normal rate however, is between $5,000 to $6,000.
*Make sure that when you become a recording artist on a label of any sort ,that you maximize all your potential income with licensing when making your own music. You won't make any money on album sales! A very tiny amount.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Making Your Own Music
Making Your Own Music
There is nothing more creative than making your own music. Anything from recording music, playing guitar, or simply writing your own songs. In today's world we have such an advantage in creating music and sharing with the rest of the world. Like anything else, serious musicians that want to create and distribute musical material can rip through your budget and be very expensive. In my years of being involved in music and several years in the music industry I have found that the biggest challenge for musicians is to create and produce a CD (album) independently. The first step is to know as a musician or band your niche. What type of style is your music? Are you trying to write and create a number one hit on the radio station or create music that lies deep in your soul and your write what you feel and enjoy writing, recording and sharing with the rest of the world?
Home Recording Software
My advice is when you get to that cross road about the recording process is to record material at home. Build your craft in song writing, learn and become advanced in the recording process. This will cost you literally nothing if done correctly. Obviously researching a software or types of recording equipment take knowledge of what will work and cater your specific needs as a recording artist. If you are not advanced at recording and I mean not a professional producer or recording engineer, I would recommend a recording software which for it's value is the best thing I have come across on the market under $50! Yes, that's all. Dub Turbo, a software where you have all the capabilities as a major studio if used to it's full extent. Have a look and this will be the best investment you will make as a musician if you don't have the funds to record in a studio.This home recording software is incredible effective. Happy recording!
There is nothing more creative than making your own music. Anything from recording music, playing guitar, or simply writing your own songs. In today's world we have such an advantage in creating music and sharing with the rest of the world. Like anything else, serious musicians that want to create and distribute musical material can rip through your budget and be very expensive. In my years of being involved in music and several years in the music industry I have found that the biggest challenge for musicians is to create and produce a CD (album) independently. The first step is to know as a musician or band your niche. What type of style is your music? Are you trying to write and create a number one hit on the radio station or create music that lies deep in your soul and your write what you feel and enjoy writing, recording and sharing with the rest of the world?
Home Recording Software
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My advice is when you get to that cross road about the recording process is to record material at home. Build your craft in song writing, learn and become advanced in the recording process. This will cost you literally nothing if done correctly. Obviously researching a software or types of recording equipment take knowledge of what will work and cater your specific needs as a recording artist. If you are not advanced at recording and I mean not a professional producer or recording engineer, I would recommend a recording software which for it's value is the best thing I have come across on the market under $50! Yes, that's all. Dub Turbo, a software where you have all the capabilities as a major studio if used to it's full extent. Have a look and this will be the best investment you will make as a musician if you don't have the funds to record in a studio.This home recording software is incredible effective. Happy recording!
Monday, May 7, 2012
Learning Guitar-Making Your Own Music
Learning Guitar-Making Your Own Music
When it comes to learning guitar, there is an alternative to simple guitar lessons and making your own music. For several years guitar lessons have been limited to two learning concepts. You could learn to play guitar on your own with frustration from spending countless hours or your second option is to spend hours and plenty of money taking private lessons from tutors. In this day and age of computer technology access to just about everything is apparent. Now you can learn to play guitar and master the instrument by instructional video and the best teaching program out on the market. Jamorama guitar lessons is the only way to go these days. It is considered the top instructional guitar lessons on the Internet, voted by consumers. It is a one minute download e book that you have directly on your computer, so you can learn effectively right from home. It has step by step instructions from beginning to end. Learn to play different styles and genres of music. This entire course is cheaper than just one hour of private lessons with a tutor. Less than $50! This is the best value you will ever find. You will also get bonuses, chord charts and play along videos. I highly recommend Jamorama guitar lessons. It takes less time to learn, it's fun, simple and inexpensive. Have fun!
* Arian Collin is a manager for bands and solo artists in the music industry.
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When it comes to learning guitar, there is an alternative to simple guitar lessons and making your own music. For several years guitar lessons have been limited to two learning concepts. You could learn to play guitar on your own with frustration from spending countless hours or your second option is to spend hours and plenty of money taking private lessons from tutors. In this day and age of computer technology access to just about everything is apparent. Now you can learn to play guitar and master the instrument by instructional video and the best teaching program out on the market. Jamorama guitar lessons is the only way to go these days. It is considered the top instructional guitar lessons on the Internet, voted by consumers. It is a one minute download e book that you have directly on your computer, so you can learn effectively right from home. It has step by step instructions from beginning to end. Learn to play different styles and genres of music. This entire course is cheaper than just one hour of private lessons with a tutor. Less than $50! This is the best value you will ever find. You will also get bonuses, chord charts and play along videos. I highly recommend Jamorama guitar lessons. It takes less time to learn, it's fun, simple and inexpensive. Have fun!
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* Arian Collin is a manager for bands and solo artists in the music industry.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Secondary Publishing Income
Printed Music
Here is a look at some other sources of income when making your own music. The majority of printed music revenues comes from sheet music. When making your own music, single songs in print is a nice way to earn income as a writer/musician. Collections of songs by a number of different artists and writers are called mixed folios. Another type is a matching folio, which has all songs of a particular album. Matching folios are usually printed with the album artwork on the cover and various posed candid shots of the artist inside.
Royalties
The royalties paid to a publisher for single song sheet music are 20% of the marked retail price. If the sheet music has a $3.95 retail price, so the publisher gets about 80 cents. Royalties on folios are 10% to 12.5% of the marked retail price. Most retail selling price is around $24.95. A personality folio is one that has the picture of the performing artist plastered all over it. For personal folios an additional royalty is 5% of the marked retail selling price. This royalty goes to the artist.
Term
Licenses for print music are for limited periods of time, usually three to five years. Because of this, you have to spell out what a printer can do with the stuff at the end of the term. Certainly they can't manufacture any more inventory, but can they continue to sell what they have?
Normally these licenses give the printer a right to sell their existing inventory for a period of six to twelve months after the term expires. These rights are non-exclusive (meaning someone else can sell the same materials at the same time). At the end of the six to twelve months, they have to trash anything left over. For folios, the printers try not to have any time limit on their sell off rights.
Home Recording Software
If you want a great home recording software, I recommend this software to record right from home without a fancy studio. Check it out here. Recording software.
*Author, Arian Collin is a independent manager for bands and solo artists in the music industry.
Here is a look at some other sources of income when making your own music. The majority of printed music revenues comes from sheet music. When making your own music, single songs in print is a nice way to earn income as a writer/musician. Collections of songs by a number of different artists and writers are called mixed folios. Another type is a matching folio, which has all songs of a particular album. Matching folios are usually printed with the album artwork on the cover and various posed candid shots of the artist inside.
Royalties
The royalties paid to a publisher for single song sheet music are 20% of the marked retail price. If the sheet music has a $3.95 retail price, so the publisher gets about 80 cents. Royalties on folios are 10% to 12.5% of the marked retail price. Most retail selling price is around $24.95. A personality folio is one that has the picture of the performing artist plastered all over it. For personal folios an additional royalty is 5% of the marked retail selling price. This royalty goes to the artist.
Term
Licenses for print music are for limited periods of time, usually three to five years. Because of this, you have to spell out what a printer can do with the stuff at the end of the term. Certainly they can't manufacture any more inventory, but can they continue to sell what they have?
Normally these licenses give the printer a right to sell their existing inventory for a period of six to twelve months after the term expires. These rights are non-exclusive (meaning someone else can sell the same materials at the same time). At the end of the six to twelve months, they have to trash anything left over. For folios, the printers try not to have any time limit on their sell off rights.
Home Recording Software
If you want a great home recording software, I recommend this software to record right from home without a fancy studio. Check it out here. Recording software.
*Author, Arian Collin is a independent manager for bands and solo artists in the music industry.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Motion Picture Performance Monies
Motion Picture Performance Monies
Due to some fancy footwork by the film industry a number of years ago ASCAP and BMI are not permitted to collect public performance monies when making your own music and your songs are in motion pictures. There seems to be no logical reason for this. It is just political and historically not done. However, foreign territories have never bought into this nonsense, and motion picture performance monies are very significant. The fees are collected by local societies, then paid over to ASCAP and BMI.
Foreign film performance monies are percentage of the box office receipts, which means they generate a good amount of green. How much? Well, the composer of a major smash film score can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign performance monies alone.
Which Society Is Best
This is hard to tell. The best gauge is to look at cross-registered songs, which means a song that is registered with both ASCAP and BMI. This happens when a song is owned by an ASCAP and BMI publisher. If a song is owned 50% with BMI and 50% with ASCAP, each publisher must match that of the writer. With cross-registered songs, ASCAP collects half of the song and remits to the ASCAP writer/publisher on the same song, each independent of the other so we get to see who pays more.
In the comparisons I've seen, ASCAP seems to do a bit better in general, but for some compositions, BMI beats them. Also, BMI changes its payment schedule periodically. Thus there are no hard and fast rules.
Home Recording Software
Here is the best value to record music at home effective and with a high quality of sound. Home recording software can be expensive, This one is under 40 bucks! Have a look here. Dub Turbo.
*Author Arian Collin is a independent manager for bands and solo artist. Mr. Collin is highly knowledgeable in music law.
Due to some fancy footwork by the film industry a number of years ago ASCAP and BMI are not permitted to collect public performance monies when making your own music and your songs are in motion pictures. There seems to be no logical reason for this. It is just political and historically not done. However, foreign territories have never bought into this nonsense, and motion picture performance monies are very significant. The fees are collected by local societies, then paid over to ASCAP and BMI.
Foreign film performance monies are percentage of the box office receipts, which means they generate a good amount of green. How much? Well, the composer of a major smash film score can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign performance monies alone.
Which Society Is Best
This is hard to tell. The best gauge is to look at cross-registered songs, which means a song that is registered with both ASCAP and BMI. This happens when a song is owned by an ASCAP and BMI publisher. If a song is owned 50% with BMI and 50% with ASCAP, each publisher must match that of the writer. With cross-registered songs, ASCAP collects half of the song and remits to the ASCAP writer/publisher on the same song, each independent of the other so we get to see who pays more.
In the comparisons I've seen, ASCAP seems to do a bit better in general, but for some compositions, BMI beats them. Also, BMI changes its payment schedule periodically. Thus there are no hard and fast rules.
Home Recording Software
Here is the best value to record music at home effective and with a high quality of sound. Home recording software can be expensive, This one is under 40 bucks! Have a look here. Dub Turbo.
*Author Arian Collin is a independent manager for bands and solo artist. Mr. Collin is highly knowledgeable in music law.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
So here are the societies sitting with those millions of dollars of license fees when making your own music. how do you know how much to pay each publisher and writer? First, the monies are used to pay the operating expenses of the society. Then, everything left over is divided among the participants (ASCAP and BMI are non-profit, so everything not used for expenses gets paid out; SESAC is privately owned and operated for profit, so they don't distribute all the money). The division is based only on radio airplay, television airplay and touring if you are an artist who performs his or her own compositions in live concerts, but you're not on the radio or TV, you can sometimes make special arrangements with BMI (but not ASCAP) to get paid. So, you ask, how do they know how much a song is played on the radio or on tv?
1. Radio
BMI requires its licensee radio stations to keep logs of all the musical compositions they play. This is done on a rotating basis, from station to station, and each station has to log for three days each year. BMI then projects from these logs to the whole country. As a check against the logs, BMI uses a services that digitally listens to certain stations. The digital magician matches the songs to a database and reports what it hears. ASCAP doesn't have stations keep logs. They use a digital monitoring service to scour hundreds of thousands of hours, then extrapolate for the rest of the country.
2. Television
TV stations are required to keep cue sheets, which are lists of every musical composition used, how long it was played, and how it was used (theme song, background, performed visually, etc.). The cue sheets are then filed with the societies and there are specific dollar amounts paid for each type of use. The amount also varies with the size of the broadcast area (local pays a lot less than network).
3. Touring
The societies now pay based on domestic live performances, but it's only for the top tow hundred grossing tours as reported in a magazine called Pollstar. They pay based on set lists-lists of the songs played by the band involved-which they get from either the venues or artist's management.
4. Muzak
Muzak, your source of fine music in elevators, grocery stores, and waiting rooms is also logged separately.
BMI pays bonuses for musical compositions that are performed heavily. and this can result in substantially increases in the amount of performance monies paid. ASCAP has no such concept, but its fees tend to be comparable anyway. Both societies pay quarterly and both societies pay about nine months to a year after the quarter in which monies are received.
When making your own music, it is crucial to join BMI or ASCAP!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Making Your Own Music-Performing Rights
Performing Rights Society
When making your own music, there are major performing rights societies in the United States. ASCAP standing for American Society of Composers, for authors and publishers. BMI standing for Broadcast Music Incorporated and SESAC. Of the three ASCAP and BMI are by far the largest, as SESAC has only about 1% of all performing rights. Virtually every foreign country has the equivalent for its own territory, most of which are government affiliated, such as SACEM for France, BUMA for Holland, PRS for the UK. The societies go to each publisher and say "Give us the right to license performing rights in all your songs." We'll then go to the people who want to use them like radio stations, nightclubs, etc. For each license we'll collect fees, divide them up, and send you your share of the cut. And this is exactly what happens. Publishers sign up with ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, who then issues license to the users, collects the monies, and pays publishers. This is a vital component you need to know as an artist. Here is a great home recording software for it's value.
When making your own music, there are major performing rights societies in the United States. ASCAP standing for American Society of Composers, for authors and publishers. BMI standing for Broadcast Music Incorporated and SESAC. Of the three ASCAP and BMI are by far the largest, as SESAC has only about 1% of all performing rights. Virtually every foreign country has the equivalent for its own territory, most of which are government affiliated, such as SACEM for France, BUMA for Holland, PRS for the UK. The societies go to each publisher and say "Give us the right to license performing rights in all your songs." We'll then go to the people who want to use them like radio stations, nightclubs, etc. For each license we'll collect fees, divide them up, and send you your share of the cut. And this is exactly what happens. Publishers sign up with ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, who then issues license to the users, collects the monies, and pays publishers. This is a vital component you need to know as an artist. Here is a great home recording software for it's value.
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