Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
.. And I have mixed feelings about the law. I feel that there should be a standard low charge for putting it in there (say $0.05 or so per song), and send the royalties to the publisher of each song to be shared with the composer ..
IMO that seems reasonable, although i feel composers get only 10% or less out of that, even if the charges are as high as 1.50%.

PS about where all this money travels:

My experience with producing a commercial CD with about 12 tracks the mechanical rights owner (CD production company) pays around $ 1.00 to 1.50 per printed CD in advance via the pressing plant for both copyrights AND mechanical rights.

Usually the studio musicians are paid already directly per recorded "side" or recorded track as they call it here. So if you play three instruments you're paid for 3 "sides" on the job.

Apart from that there is also a skimmed fee of .000x for the creative work per sold CD for the hired recording musicians. The company in the Netherlands doing that is called SENA. Been a member for maybe 20 years there since they started as backroom foundation; they now own a terrific chique office building, many employees plus luxury magazine. I have been doing a bit of studio work as fiddler and more over the years, especially in Germany, with all their organizing capabilities as i saw the forms to be sent in after both theater shows and recording studio work, but never got one single penny out of their looting.

BIAB's real track musicians actually are legally entitled here to the latter if their recordings, or even samples, end up on a commercial recording. F