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Already in 2009, wrote about the crazy situation where ASCAP, the giant American Society of Authors and money to pay for the channel of independent artists and rock stars - it seemed very unfair. It's just a particular portion of the royalties paid by ASCAP, but there is clearly a case of taking independent artists and give money for Should

be paid under the system and giving the most successful artists. The short version of the story is essentially that, to make your life easier, ASCAP only pays for the rights to screen the top 200 box office towers in the United States, and all the other musicians on tour is more or less over - unless you can convince to play ASCAP "serious music".

Very successful independent musician Zoe Keating, who has had several brushes with the unfair practices of corporate collections give the money owed to the majors, just to pass Through this subject and wrote a blog about her experience:



After a concert, there's this thing called "making the sale." This is where the artist or his representative shall meet with the developer, is on the financial performance of the night ... on his contract and paid.



Sometimes the contract is a percentage of gross revenues, but mostly for me, give I guarantee, and perhaps a percentage of the "red" if it was a positive number. deductions of line items that go into calculating the network are things like the sound and lights, staff, rent, advertising, insurance, etc. It tends to have many articles online in the calculation of "net" and I can not help noticing that one of them is the ASCAP.



For example, in a concert he played last month gross ticket sales of the night was $ 9,336. Among the many expenses deducted from the night, one of the items was $ 86 to ASCAP.



What is it? This is the part the night of a fee to pay for room ASCAP permission to play music instead of ASCAP artists. My compositions are registered with ASCAP, so you should receive this money over time, right?

wrong.



I remembered that when I played in the United Kingdom made a list of all the songs I played in what is called from an ERP and gave to the place. Six months later, I received a check for the percentage of sales of the night for me, in the words of the ERP for this location.

thinking maybe instead of placing the burden on the site, the artist puts ASCAP, ASCAP called to see how I must do to claim these rights concerts.

The representative of customer service on the phone said there was nothing for me to complain. He informed me that ASCAP pays royalties carrying only 200 concert tours greatest hits, as determined by Pollstar. They also pay royalties for "symphonic concerts and recitals live", either (I said do not qualify for them).



In other words ....


Everyday Thousands of sites are required to pay a percentage of gross ticket sales to ASCAP, which then gives the money ... see here at Pollstar and find highest grossing concerts for 2011 .... U2, Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, etc. Yes something is really going to think that Keating whose music is often classified as "classic" has qualified for the "serious music" exception - because, in 2009, we were told that applies to classical music. But it now seems limited to "live symphony concerts and recitals "and saying she does not qualify for it.
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