In the EU however,
new laws came in at the end of the 1990s
which state that all this business of one-off session fees
was a bit of a rum deal, so the musicians ought to be
entitled to remuneration from public performance of the sound recordings.
So, these days, in the UK for instance,
http://www.ppluk.com collect royalties from the public playing or broadcasting of sound recordings (ie radio stations etc have to pay a license fee), and only half these royalties go back to the owner of the sound recording (the "(P)" copyright owner listed on the record sleeve) - the other half go to the musicians.....
However, when the record company fills in the PPL database record listing who's on the recording, it would just say "Mr Keyboard Player: keyboards" - there'd be no individual listing of the 8 voices on the tron tape!
So no, they wouldn't get paid under the current arrangements,
not unless PPL change their "CatCo" database to include a special mellotron bit ;-)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 07 February 2004 02:44
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Tron choir royalties?
In a message dated 2/6/2004 4:38:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
charel196@... writes:
Wonder what the NAMES are of those 8 people who did the recording for
the tapes...some of them may actually be dead by now which would put
them into an "immortalized" state on records.Gee....do those singers
deserve royalties? Imagine every record their voices appeared on....
I would imagine they were paid a flat rate for the session, as session musicians tend to get, with no royalties (and often no credit), just as Welk's musicians probably did on the Chamberlin sessions. I don't think Ian McDonald gets a royalty when one of the "Ian McD Flute" tape sets sell, or Mike Dickson with his "Dickstrings", or Rick Blechta with his "French Horn 2". JB?
Frank Samagaio
San Diego CA
MkII #134 / M400 #908
author, The Mellotron Book