When I said "nobody knows them",
I mean most of the people playing the mellotrons on the recordings won't know them, and the person at the record company filling out the track contributor details in the PPL Repertoire Database will probably just put "Joe Bloggs: Keyboards" rather than "Joe Bloggs: mellotron" and certainly won't go to the trouble of find out which mellotron tape frame was being used and thus who might have been the 2nd fiddle on the 3 Violins tape.
If the mellotron had been launched in the era when this legislation came into play (post 1997?) then maybe rather than the MU throwing a hissy fit about it being used at all, they might instead have gotten PPL to log the names of the session musicians on the mellotron tapes so that they all got 0.000000000068p each every time a tune with a mellotron on gets played on Spotify.
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
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> On 25/02/2011 13:01, feline1973 wrote:
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> > Nobody knows the name of the people on the tapes and so PPL don't have
> > this info so they ain't getting paid at present.
> >
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> Well..we know some of them. Trouble is I suspect most of them are dead.
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> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
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