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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:20 pm
by decree
stepwriterun wrote:Save whatever money you receive from this for the time you need a lawyer/solicitor to review a real contract.
HAHAHAHAHA
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:31 pm
by FSTZ1
MONEY????
haha
3 years is how long sony held my licensing
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:27 pm
by dubstep909
18% is ok for CD, but you should be getting about 80% of digital.
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:12 am
by abZ
dubstep909 wrote:18% is ok for CD, but you should be getting about 80% of digital.
lol Not many labels will give you 80% although one label I have a tune forthcoming on is that generous. It is an anomaly though. 50% is standard. I think 50 is pretty much standard with vinyl too although I haven't released on vinyl so I am not sure.
To the OP, looks like you can get get an upfront payment instead of a percentage. If you are going for it, I would go that route.
Although you retain your rights and have the option of signing the tune with someone else, I think it will be difficult. Saying this as a label owner, I probably would not take the tune on. If say I signed it and then you wanted to license it for this CD, that would be a different story but in that case I would be entitled to half of what you get as per my contract with you. Just something to keep in mind. If you don't think it would get signed anyway, I'd say this is all irrelevant.
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:47 am
by decree
the more people that answer the more confusing this gets
sign the contract its a no brainer if you havent already
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:25 pm
by deadly
Decree wrote:the more people that answer the more confusing this gets
sign the contract its a no brainer if you havent already
Yeah I've signed and posted it this morning.
If I had someone to run it by I would, but I don't. Hence posting on here.
I don't care about the money at all, it was more about making sure that I'm not signing something that will come back and haunt me later on.
All I really care about it the vinyl on my wall!