In recent years, the industry has tried to ram this 'non-PRO' bullsh•• down everybody's throat. The excuse has been to save the poor, ailing broadcast industry but the real reason is so that streaming services won't have to pay. Largely, they've succeeded with more and more composers being told that, in order to get the gig, their works cannot be properly registered.dix wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:15 pm Digging up this old thread to to see if anyone has messed with putting music on Pond5, AudioJungle lately. I think the models may have changed since this thread started. It looks like Pond5, at least, sells "non-PRO tracks", as well as PRO registered tracks now (see link). Anyone have any experience with Pond5, or any of these libraries? I have a large stockpile of existing material I own out right that I'm thinking of trying to exploit
https://help.pond5.com/hc/en-us/article ... string=pro
Does anyone know what the WGA Writers' Strike is about? It's this: After watching the composers get screwed, the industry now wants to do it to the writers. The trigger was when HBO changed the name of their streaming service from HBO Max to Max. It turns out that many writers who got paid for HBO Max do not get moneys when their work shows up on Max. The breakdown in "talks" was no coincidence.
After memos were leaked yesterday that big cable et al intend to wait till the writers run out of money this fall, the Actors announced that they intend to go on strike, too. The real reason is the same no matter the PR spin put on it.
The composers, for the most part, are already screwed. It's like AFM competing with the we'll play for $20, beer & pizza crowd for local gigs (you get $20? a colleague from Utah asked me 35 years ago). The last ASCAP strike happened in the late 1930s and ended with the creation of BMI and the Consent Decrees — it's not likely to happen again anytime soon.
I've planned a couple of get-togethers with Mr. Mortilla (MIDI Life Crisis) this summer. It will be interesting to hear his take on this situation ten years later.
