Paying Royalties

[Zoob]

I heard that we save over £85 million a year by not employing ball-boys.

[Kite]

... and we avoid losing 239 million by not using toe nail clippers to cut the grass ...

[R A Softlad]

Sack Parry!

[wacko]

Actually, we save only 23.9 million by not using nail clippers. BuY BiG MoWeRs.

[SkippyjonJones]

Sack Parry!

 

and save millions by not having those tie and shirt combos made up for him.

[RafaShanks]

and save millions by not having those tie and shirt combos made up for him.

 

You could forgive him if he was given his outfits from Oxfam or something.

[IgPig]

Its just a scenario. So if that was the case what would you prefer?

 

 

I think your premise was slightly flawed.......

 

 

I can see what you're trying to do though...

[downunder]

Maybe we should charge 3500 pounds to be a mascot

[R A Softlad]

Good call that, wonder if anyone else has thought of that?

[floyd the barber]

no

ynwa has become part of our club..

money is not important in some aspects

[SkippyjonJones]

no

ynwa has become part of our club..

money is not important in some aspects

 

 

pay up ya tight b*****d.

[fyds]

We will have a limited Public spaces broadcast licence which is paid annually. Gerry and his Pacemaker are paid by the Performing Rights Society from the collective pool as performers, the lions share going to the holder of the Rogers and Hammerstein Songbook copyright, to wit, one Sir Paul McCartney who also owns the copyright on the works of Buddy Holly, Hoagy Carmichael and Berry Gordy among others.

Edited August 30, 2006 by fyds

[R A Softlad]

...and 'Happy birthday to you'.

[fyds]

Good call that, wonder if anyone else has thought of that?

Or we could get Wayne and Kev to be mascots and charge by the pound?

 

...and 'Happy birthday to you'.

Indeed, and 'White Christmas'.

[Dule]

Fyds your a legend, even down here in Aus haha

 

f***en the MAN knows everything

[fyds]

Used to be a session player mate - it paid to know the rules back then

 

I'm a bit out of date with it all now, but every now and then I still get the odd cheque from the PRS - only about enough to buy a DVD, unfortunately.

[BG]

Sack Parry!

 

I'm starting to see a resemblance between Parry and Bobby Ball (as in Cannon).

[fyds]

YNWA dates back to 1945 when Carousel was first performed. It will be out of copyright now, so no more songwriting royalties for the Rodgers & Hammerstein estate methinks. Gerry M should still be getting a performer's royalty though.

 

International copyright rules were changed about 10 years back, altering the initial copyright ownership from 50 to 75 years, so it's still very much in copyright. Also, the new rules provided with the right for the estate of the original holder to regenerate the copyright at the end of the 75 years, keeping it alive indefinitely.

 

Re 'happy birthday to you' - RCA owned it until Thorn EMI 'bought' it from them when they took over the RCA catalogue and repetoire. In a partial deal on reviewing the rights to original Beatles and Wings recordings, McCartney apparently acquired the rights thereafter. AS MPL (his company) are affiliated, it still resides under the auspices of EMI.

 

That would be around 500k per play, it would be far cheaper just to buy the rights ourselves.

That doesn't make any sense at all. In a single pubblic limited broadcast 'YNWA' or any other copyrighted song or musical piece would garner no more than £24 - in fact, considerably less given the limits of the licensed space. As part of a collective public license it works out at less than 1p in most cases.