how do you go about registering the tunes in say BMI / Songtrust? And if you see a proper media licence being purchased by some media / film company for some tune, how do you manually process it so that you would “catch” the use case?
The problems I see are for example lack of ISRC code (which for example Songtrust hopes to have) and not sure how the buyer uses the composer info. For example if somebody purchases a tune from me (user Driving) called Suspenseful, how will I make sure the PRO registration somehow matches with the said AJ tune
Most of the times we have to rely on the customer properly filling the cue sheet with the correct info. I put the BMI info (name, IPI number and track title) in the zip and hope for the best.
One time that I didn’t see any royalties despite knowing a track was airing in a US commercial I contacted BMI, linking them the commercial from ispot.tv and my item page on AJ and they were able to match that spot with my track and I got the royalties a few months later.
I recently did the same and this time they didn’t bother to answer me, so I hope to see the royalties in the next quarter payment.
Anyone know how to collect from the PRO in Belgium? This one is mine. I do not know the protocol for collecting ad codes from SABAM, the PRO in Belgium. Although…I have to believe this spot is running in a few European countries as the ad was made in French and English https://www.sabam.be/en
Luca, send me a private link to the USA spot you have on air and I will get you the ad codes you need to send to BMI. I Spot helps, but it’s not the data they use and require.
I need help collecting performance royalties on the spot above airing in Europe.
