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Dionne Warwick: No radio royalties for performers due to 'flat-out procrastination' by Congress
Just the News ^ | June 28, 2021 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 06/29/2021 5:02:16 AM PDT by gattaca

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To: dfwgator
The money is made now from using songs in movie and TV soundtracks.

That's why a lot of TV shows do not get released on DVD or Blu-ray. The music rights make it too expensive to do so.

21 posted on 06/29/2021 5:40:33 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Very true. WKRP had a lot of issues with royalties.


22 posted on 06/29/2021 5:41:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gattaca

What’s this? 20+ posts already and no jokes about Dionne Warwick finding her way to San Jose?


23 posted on 06/29/2021 5:46:44 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Arcadian Empire
Recording artists get robbed.

Recording artists get paid exactly what they agreed to.

Songwriters are paid royalties because they own the copyright to the music. It's the same with books, photographs, etc. If you want to use their property, you pay them a fee.

If a recording artist wants to get paid more, they can negotiate with the the producer for more of the producer's share, (good luck with that), or with the songwriter (who can have someone else perform the piece if the recording artist is asking for too much).

24 posted on 06/29/2021 5:47:18 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dinodino

Obviously lots of people otherwise your car wouldn’t have a radio. Car companies are all about de-contenting. If they can yank something expensive like the sound system, they’d be all over it.

And for the record. I do.


25 posted on 06/29/2021 5:50:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: gattaca

So would the recording artists include studio musicians? Often, the named artist was not actually the recording artist.

Imagine what the wrecking crew would have made if they got paid per play.


26 posted on 06/29/2021 5:51:57 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: gattaca

Johnny Carson wrote words for the Tonight Show theme, and got paid for every play, even though they did not use the words....


27 posted on 06/29/2021 5:54:22 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: dinodino
Since getting Sirius back around 2002, I never listened to FM radio again. In fact, I've been in the Southern Connecticut area for the past 7 years and I can't even name one FM radio station here.

I don't mind the $20 a month or so it costs me. Nearly 100 channels of commercial free music in just about any genre I'm in the mood to listen to.

I also like that the artists and songwriters get paid on account of my subscription. Even though their royalties are fractions of a penny for each airplay, it can add up for the ones who have a lot of hits.

When I left FM radio, it was a wasteland of narrow playlists, non-stop annoying ads and the constant yakking of the "DJs" who were all trying to become the next Howard Stern.

Don't miss FM radio at all. It used to be good though.

28 posted on 06/29/2021 5:58:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Who would pay to listen to her other gig, the psychic friends network? She doesn’t even know the way to San Jose. smh.


29 posted on 06/29/2021 6:02:44 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: Born to Conserve
So would the recording artists include studio musicians? Often, the named artist was not actually the recording artist.

Imagine what the wrecking crew would have made if they got paid per play.

Answering that question would end the argument. The Wrecking Crew preformed the piece in the studio and the "recording artist" got the credit on the album.

What would change in the compensation for Grammy Award winning Milli Vanilli? They didn't even sing the song on stage, much less the album.

The Wrecking Crew documentary:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185418/

30 posted on 06/29/2021 6:02:48 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SamAdams76
When I left FM radio, it was a wasteland of narrow playlists, non-stop annoying ads and the constant yakking of the "DJs" who were all trying to become the next Howard Stern.

Don't hold me to it but I could swear the last time I listened to FM radio the time spent in commercials equaled the music broadcast time. I recall it was during the evening commute window.

"You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world 11 minutes of commercials."

31 posted on 06/29/2021 6:06:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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The Wrecking Crew documentary:

Where Glen Campbell got his start and I believe Brian Wilson used them for Pet Sounds.

32 posted on 06/29/2021 6:07:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Preachin'

You’re not on your own. This has always been my understanding and it has been through the courts. There’s a difference between the internet and radio - one is a ‘pull’ mechanism, the other is ‘push’. Broadcast radio pushes your music for you, people will hear it without requesting it. If they like it they will move to ‘pulling’ it specifically over the internet at their choosing.

This is especially important for new artists, they want to be heard and this is free advertising. Established artists are just being selfish here.


33 posted on 06/29/2021 6:08:38 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: T.B. Yoits
FM radio the time spent in commercials equaled the music broadcast time.

Forcing people to alternatives.

34 posted on 06/29/2021 6:09:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: fuzzylogic
This is especially important for new artists, they want to be heard and this is free advertising. Established artists are just being selfish here.

Not knowing this space, your comments sound reasonable.

35 posted on 06/29/2021 6:10:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Sans-Culotte; dfwgator

Same with the Wonder Years


36 posted on 06/29/2021 6:10:53 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Vaquero

In re: “They play your music on the radio. If you are popular you sell lots of records and people want you for concerts. That’s how it always worked. If your music is old and/or unpopular in later life, you should have saved the money you made when you were popular.”

O.K., let’s say that’s all it is, and you are right.

Then why have the song writers always been paid royalties by the AM and FM stations??

And where in the hell would song writers be if no one performed what they wrote? And who in hell even remembers the song writer? Their songs may become famous but in most cases they never do.

The business-smart vocalists are those who are singer-song writers. They get the royalties even when others perform their songs.


37 posted on 06/29/2021 6:11:12 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: gattaca

Sing one time, get paid one time.


38 posted on 06/29/2021 6:11:20 AM PDT by meadsjn (, )
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To: Wuli

As there hasn’t been any good new songs on the radio since the 1970s and I have all the ones I want digitally on my phone, computer and thumb drives the point is moot to me.


39 posted on 06/29/2021 6:17:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Born to Conserve

Read an article years ago that Paul Anka wrote the theme music for the show and was paid every time it played. My father and I estimated that he made fifty thousand a year just from the one song. This was in the 70s.

Gene Roddenberry wrote words to the Star Trek theme just to make some money from it.


40 posted on 06/29/2021 6:19:56 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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