MAB, you said,
This has actually created some more problems in that so many people are pitching for "film and television." If songs are used in "commercial productions" the money you pay the studio, singers, etc. goes up. A song on major productions, can bring in thousands of dollars, a major motion picture can be hundreds of thousands. To have done a demo for $200-$1500, the studio would have to be renumerated for that, in other words, you could owe MORE money to the studio after the recording. Which is ANOTHER problem on songs for "film and television." Writers pitch these songs, thinking they own it all but actually they DON'T own things outright. The studio still shares in the "sound recording" of that song. I have known many people that had songs up for television or motion pictures and couldn't get a release from the studio or the singers, and the song being dropped from the production.
Maybe you could gives us another personal experience story about your song that was used in, "Another Pair Of Aces"? How you recorded it. Who pitched it to the film. etc.
phil g.
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