Copyright license and royalty fees

[echnidna]

Has anyone got any idea of the amounts normally paid to artists and crafts people for copyright license and royalty fees fair to all parties.

[ozwinner]

Hi

A friend of mine who had a country song on the radio, said that every time its played he gets 7 cents. :(

Cheers, Delta Sander

[bitingmidge]

Depends on who and what and how good they are at negotiating.

Coincidentally I was having a chat today with a chap who had appeared in, promoted and done a few other things in a movie a good few years ago. Someone said that it had been on TV a few weeks ago when he was out of the country. He laughed and said "fantastic that's another $1.30 I've just earned".

On the other hand I was once involved in a project where a big-time Californian movie production house was doing the conceptual design, for a huge fee, and 25% of any profit for the life of the project. That amount could have amounted to many tens of millions of dollars per year.

I like the thought of a percentage of gross sales!

Cheers,

P
PVC Ducting Advisor to the Stars


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[RETIRED]

Gooday, a friend of mine was paid $15,000,000 over 3 years for the rights (use and manufacturing) and 1% per unit sold for an electronic switching device.

Needless to to say the mongrel retired at 35.

[Sir Stinkalot]

Hi

A friend of mine who had a country song on the radio, said that every time its played he gets 7 cents. :(

Cheers, Delta Sander

Al,
No disrespect to your friend but that is too much for a country song. :p

[bitingmidge]

Al,
No disrespect to your friend but that is too much for a country song. :p
No Stinky, there is no price too great to get country music on the airwaves.

But the whole thing does smack of another Track of Tragedy on the way!

Cheers,

Tex

[AlexS]

I heard that the bloke who invented cats-eye reflectors received !c. on each one used. I could probably live on that.

[soundman]

A bloke I know writes country songs & has had a few picked up by australian artists.
he recons al he wants is a song that fails in the amreican charts, he could retire.

The royaltees depends on the value of the "idea" and the size of the market.

Another bloke I know has let theatrical product to a US manufacturer and gets about $US1500 per unit built. but the product is super funky and goes for $US10 000 aprox per unit

[glenn k]

There was an artical in one of our local papers that said a williamstown man wrote a play about a liquid metal man and sent it to the company that made terminator 2. They gave him nothing.