Thread: Copyright license and royalty fees

Hi

A friend of mine who had a country song on the radio, said that every time its played he gets 7 cents.

Cheers, Delta Sander

Depends on who and what and how good they are at negotiating.

Coincidentally I was having a chat today with a chap who had appeared in, promoted and done a few other things in a movie a good few years ago. Someone said that it had been on TV a few weeks ago when he was out of the country. He laughed and said "fantastic that's another $1.30 I've just earned".

On the other hand I was once involved in a project where a big-time Californian movie production house was doing the conceptual design, for a huge fee, and 25% of any profit for the life of the project. That amount could have amounted to many tens of millions of dollars per year.

I like the thought of a percentage of gross sales!

Cheers,

P
PVC Ducting Advisor to the Stars

Gooday, a friend of mine was paid $15,000,000 over 3 years for the rights (use and manufacturing) and 1% per unit sold for an electronic switching device.

Needless to to say the mongrel retired at 35.

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Hi

A friend of mine who had a country song on the radio, said that every time its played he gets 7 cents.

Cheers, Delta Sander

Al,
No disrespect to your friend but that is too much for a country song.

Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot

Al,
No disrespect to your friend but that is too much for a country song.

No Stinky, there is no price too great to get country music on the airwaves.

But the whole thing does smack of another Track of Tragedy on the way!

Cheers,

Tex

I heard that the bloke who invented cats-eye reflectors received !c. on each one used. I could probably live on that.

A bloke I know writes country songs & has had a few picked up by australian artists.
he recons al he wants is a song that fails in the amreican charts, he could retire.

The royaltees depends on the value of the "idea" and the size of the market.

Another bloke I know has let theatrical product to a US manufacturer and gets about $US1500 per unit built. but the product is super funky and goes for $US10 000 aprox per unit

There was an artical in one of our local papers that said a williamstown man wrote a play about a liquid metal man and sent it to the company that made terminator 2. They gave him nothing.