Royalties languish overseas as performers and songwriters do without.
LOS ANGELES - One of the great mysteries of music publishing is the concept of "Neighboring Rights." Most artists have no idea that every time they perform in a European club, they earn revenue quite apart from what the club owner paid them after the show. Typically that money just sits there, waiting for them, and is never recovered simply because they don¹t know how to ask for it.
Similarly, when an artist gets a song in a film or on TV, they're often thrilled to get royalty statements from ASCAP or BMI - unaware that a big chunk of their earnings, the payments from overseas, never made it into their hands. What too many artists don't understand is that while they just get a flat synchronization fee in the US, in the rest of the world they get paid every single time their song is played, in a movie theater, on radio, in a club or on TV. One prime placement can equal thousands of dollars for the artist who knows how to get it. Artists who handle their own publishing rarely do.
Lost in the Grooves is a new sub-publishing agency founded with one aim: to reclaim the money that independent artists don't even realize they're missing. Working closely with sub-publishers on the ground in Europe, they have the experience and moxie to shake Euros out of the most reluctant pockets.
Founder Phil Drucker spent many years in the music publishing trenches, administering the catalogs of the Doors, Beach Boys and George Benson. Currently working as an intellectual property lawyer and professor, he forgot about publishing until one of the songs he wrote decades ago in the influential post-punk band Savage Republic was used in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." Aware of the windfall that awaited him in Europe, Drucker asked around until he found an excellent sub-publisher, obtaining an impressive payout.
Once his own song paid off, Drucker started thinking about all the other artists who had similar windfalls waiting for them, but might never know to ask. Working closely with Scram magazine editrix Kim Cooper, a longtime independent publisher with deep ties to underground labels and indie artists, Drucker knows that with Lost in the Grooves he can help other artists like he helped himself, and uncover unknown treasure that will help support their creative and everyday lives.
For more information about Lost in the Grooves, visit
http://www.scrammagazine.com/subpub.html
or contact Kim Cooper at amscray@gmail.com or (323) 223-2767.
Similarly, when an artist gets a song in a film or on TV, they're often thrilled to get royalty statements from ASCAP or BMI - unaware that a big chunk of their earnings, the payments from overseas, never made it into their hands. What too many artists don't understand is that while they just get a flat synchronization fee in the US, in the rest of the world they get paid every single time their song is played, in a movie theater, on radio, in a club or on TV. One prime placement can equal thousands of dollars for the artist who knows how to get it. Artists who handle their own publishing rarely do.
Lost in the Grooves is a new sub-publishing agency founded with one aim: to reclaim the money that independent artists don't even realize they're missing. Working closely with sub-publishers on the ground in Europe, they have the experience and moxie to shake Euros out of the most reluctant pockets.
Founder Phil Drucker spent many years in the music publishing trenches, administering the catalogs of the Doors, Beach Boys and George Benson. Currently working as an intellectual property lawyer and professor, he forgot about publishing until one of the songs he wrote decades ago in the influential post-punk band Savage Republic was used in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." Aware of the windfall that awaited him in Europe, Drucker asked around until he found an excellent sub-publisher, obtaining an impressive payout.
Once his own song paid off, Drucker started thinking about all the other artists who had similar windfalls waiting for them, but might never know to ask. Working closely with Scram magazine editrix Kim Cooper, a longtime independent publisher with deep ties to underground labels and indie artists, Drucker knows that with Lost in the Grooves he can help other artists like he helped himself, and uncover unknown treasure that will help support their creative and everyday lives.
For more information about Lost in the Grooves, visit
http://www.scrammagazine.com/subpub.html
or contact Kim Cooper at amscray@gmail.com or (323) 223-2767.
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