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Mar 10 2008, 10:51 AM
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I think there are several ways to do this in the UK Nemanja. The systems I've used in the past are:
1) leave it to the manager, lawyer and record company to sort out if you have a contract. 2) If you don't then you need to a) establish that you are the originator of the work. In the past I've done this one of two ways: i - by sending the mastered recording to myself by Recorded Delivery (postal service that verifies the date and time that you post and receive the item). On receipt locking the thing away some where safe without opening it. This isn't ideal and can be easily challenged in a court of law and has another issue which I'll come on to. ii) by being a member of a PRS association and sending and registering the work with them. (System my wife and I use now.) Largest PRS that I know of is the MCPS-PRS. I think that they also include the ISO equivalent of a ISBN/ISNN (the bar code you get on books that contains their copyright and identification) called an ISWC in the registration. MCPS is international so may cover your region as well - although I don't know for sure. Now there is the an International grouping of Rights Societies (the CISCA) who might have a web page.  Second - collect your performance rights. This includes your rights to payment for radio and tv broadcast, use in jingles, use in adverts, use in marketing, sampled use of your material (with and without permission), ownership of the music score and/or lyrics, educational use, use by individuals vs large organisations. A PRS (as mentioned above) should do this automatically and you will be paid automatically - albeit the money they collect is - in my experience - assigned to the originators based on the information they receive from the user/broadcaster. (Radio stations for instance will provide playlists to a PRS).So PRS membership also has the advantage that the Performance Rights (ie any time your registered music is aired/used) is collected and distributed to the originator by the Society. Saves you the hassle. Sending your work to yourself (as in i) above) still leaves you with the problem of collecting and enforcing your PR - which sounds like the issue you have here. Hope this helps. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Mar 11 2008, 12:54 AM
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Prices for TV broadcatsing are much more bigger than radio here
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Mar 11 2008, 10:27 AM
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Hi Nemanja,
the costs are related to how much work you register and the level/type of your membership. Very basic membership of PRS for an individual is about 140Euros per annum. Basic membership of the MCPS-PRS is - I think - a minimum of 35Euros per quarter (or 140Euros per year) or 5% of the royalties collected per month - whichever is greater. The 5% btw varies according to the type of music royalty collected. One thing - MCPS won't pay a royalty until the monthly credit exceeds a set amount - think it's currently about 40 euros. The fee that my wife and I pay is somewhat different (and harder to unravel) as we're registered as a business and use it both to collect and distribute royalties. (We 'distribute' as we also use some pre-recorded materials in the radio productions that we have produced/managed and also are/have been involved in radio broadcast to air.) It gets even more complicated as some of our work is done on behalf of other organisations from whom we then recoup our cost - and as we use some pre-recorded and some original music in some works we can end up paying royalties and receiving them  .Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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