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Stefan very true thanx! Luis --- Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje@addcom.de> wrote: > L.A. Angulo schrieb: > > Last but not least all of my songwritting is > > registered with the GEMA here in germany which is > like > > ASCAP or BMI. > > If you give the permission to use it from your > production/label side of > view, this will still make them pay royalties to the > Gema. The Gema > won't let you give it away for free anyway. You will > get Gema royalties > even if they don't pay anything more for each > festival they show it... > That's why the credits are essential. The Gema will > only know by the > credits that you composed the music... > > If the musicians are in the GVL for example their > rights are covered by > that as well. (I don't know the US equivalent for > the GVL, but they are > the Gema for performers) > > And in general there is a difference between "tight > budget" and > "expected profit" They will always talk about a > tight budget, which > might be completely true. But that would only be an > argument for the > date when they might be able to pay a fair share of > the real profit, > whatever that might be. That has to be discussed. If > there is not will > to share they shouldn't expect you to share. That's > very easy to > explain, and also hard for a human to reject that > logic... > > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Tiedje------------x------- > --_____-----------|-------------- > --(_|_ ----|\-----|-----()------- > -- _|_)----|-----()-------------- > ----------()--------www.ccmix.com > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ