more than 8 minutes of my music in an episode

[JohnForster]

Thanks, Folks, much appreciated.

Beautiful, Russell! A LOT of minutes! WHich brings up a newbie question: does anyone know if ASCAP pays by the minute in a background situation like this? Or are there thresholds where a 2nd and 3rd usage kicks in?

I'm BMI, I'm not sure how ASCAP does it. Well, for that matter, I'm not sure about BMI either.
A quick read of the BMI royalty info doesn't indicate any kind of "tiered" system for background instrumental music based on length of use. However, there is a "super usage" for Background Vocal, Visual Instrumental, and Visual Vocal usages that go for more than one minute at a time. That wouldn't apply to my music in this episode since it is all background instrumental.

Thanks, Russell. I'll ask ASCAP how they determine background music payment--it's buried somewhere in their Weighting Formula document, which doesn't appear to be on the site. Since that is the main business of library music I find myself curious. I know that ASCAP no longer distinguishes between vocal and instrumental background usages. And feature perfs ("the main focus of the audience's attention") are now paid pro rate by the second, maxing out at 2 minutes.

[cardell]

Wow, congrats Bro!

Stuart

[SteveBaruah]

Mega placement! Congrats!
Nice to see examples of Taxi member placements as well.

[jadams]

This is the kind of thing a TAXI forward turns into.

A library owner emailed me this weekend to notify me of some nice placements in an episode of 16x9 on Global News http://globalnews.ca/canada/

Turns out they used over eight minutes worth of my music on this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3t2lXHsTds

You can hear a recurring theme that comes in at :44 that is what got used the most throughout the episode. They used some other cues of mine, but that one really got some traction in the episode.

So, how COOL is it to have a TV show put your music in there for more than 25% of the show! HOLY COW! And another thing that is awesome is that this episode was entirely underscored by this library and chock full of TAXI members' music.

In case you are wondering, my relationship with this library came from a TAXI forward a while back. Continued writing to the Library's briefs got me about 25 cues signed so far. They've snagged me some sweet quality placements.

Thanks TAXI!
Thanks hard working TAXI-friendly Library!

Russell Landwehr

Russell,

Congrats and thanks for sharing this info. That's awesome!

[mrdtman]

That's awesome Russell! Congrats!

That's the kind of news that helps keep all of us pushing forward. Thanks for sharing.

DT

[TheElement]

Congrats Russell! cool stuff.

[jonnybutter]

Wow, truly awesome Russell. 8 minutes! Big congrats!

[Danny]

Thanks for the encouragement Russell.

Here's too many, many more

[AlCompose]

Wow Congrats! that's brilliant....I've had a few forwards but nothing signed yet, Great work, Al

[almccool]

Fantastic! Congrats!

-Allen