Anyone experienced in in having been approached re; Song licensing/publishing deals such as this,as trying to gauge if i'm being shafted,,or crafted,,,!
Any help appreciated,,,
Sincerely,
George.
'm contacting you in reference to the music submissions you sent Chris . Chris and the team are interested in moving forward in a licensing capacity & we'd love to find a home for you're music in our catalog.
I'm attaching a deal points memo for your consideration - let me know if this works for you all and we can move forward with the agreement, and get tracks ready to be pitched!
1 year initial term. During the term will have the Non -exclusive right to license the
songs on behalf of composer for use in TV, film, Digital Media and other media projects.
• Composer/Artist may also use his/her own personal contacts to pursue licensing opportunities on his/
her own without the involvement of as long as no other third party licensing company
is involved in representing the same recordings.
• On placements that composer procures on his/her own, composer has the option to enlist Tha
help in administering song licenses and negotiating license fees for an admin fee of 20%.
However, this is completely optional.
• This is not a "whole catalog" deal. In other words, only those songs mutually agreed upon by Tha
and composer will be part of the agreement.
• For placements procured by , all licensing fees will be split 50/50 (Tha
will receive 100% of the publisher's share of net revenue and composer receives 100% of writer's
share of net revenue).
• If composer is offered and accepts a publishing contract by a Major music publishing company during
the term of the agreement, the agreement will be immediately terminated, upon the composer's request.
Not heard this before George,
But it sounds like a Con to me,
Alex
The number of typos in their message you've pasted tends to suggest that it's a scam... it's pretty well documented that scammers deliberately put in bad grammar & mis-spellings as a filter to weed out anyone who isn't gullible enough for them to hoodwink.
For example:
"During the term will have the Non -exclusive right to license the
songs on behalf of composer for use in TV, film, Digital Media and other media projects."
Surely that SHOULD read:
"During the term WE will have the non-exclusive right to license the
songs on behalf of composer for use in TV, film, digital media and other media projects."
I know it's only subtle, but given that this is forming the basis of a legal agreement, you would expect it to have been gone through with a fine tooth comb by the company's legal dept. That fact that there are any errors at all suggest (to me, anyway) that it's not been put together by anyone reputable.