I’ll mention also that, for folks that remember Baskerville’s Music Business Career Guide, it appears it’s been updated in 2010. There is a section in there that clearly describes the difference in royalties paid between broadcast and mechanical.

There is also a new service called Limelight (http://www.songclearance.com) , which appears to be an (another?) online clearing house for rights to cover songs on recordings (mechanicals), both HFA and non-HFA. I have not used this site yet, but plan on checking it out for an upcoming project.

Obtaining rights for the online (streaming and or download) remains cloudy.

Two more points:

Keep in mind, also, that if your music is licensed by ASCAP or BMI or other para-governmental agency, your rights become “compulsory”, and though it is customary to get the songwriter’s approval before releasing a recording, technically, it is not (or wasn’t at least) required.

Also regarding ASCAP and BMI, there are 2 royalties paid – a publisher and a songwriter royalty, and together they each are considered 100%. If you are your own publishing company, you get paid twice, in theory.

As far as an alternate licensing scheme, I would imagine that would only be worth pursuing if you had demand to match the time in crafting it – otherwise you might be re-inventing the wheel here.

Rock on,

Sean

Archie

And as to the music -> the music was happy accident years back with Kurzweil 2500 or 2600 – in that one night i found a pattern, turned on the apreggiator that gave it some groove, then jammed to the beat with one left hand occasionally dancing on the ribbon strip hence the warbled effects … was a one take thing that i pumped into Soundforge before i’ve since learned how to go into Sonar with the midi and the audio from Triton in case i want to go back and edit … came across this clip while i was cataloging some of the older clips that i was putting on new Western Digital Terabyte drive and thought “hnmm – this should work for that project” and voila – gobble gobble funk :>0

thanks for kudos :>)

How’d you do the spiral transition at 2:03? Is that a stock Vegas effect?

The music was perfect too. Was that done with arpeggiator patterns in your
synth plus some live playing on top?

Also, this was a great example of what religion should do. If they stuck to
acts of kindness like this, and kept out of politics and people’s private
bedrooms, I’d be a big supporter. :->)

All in all, good show my man!