Intergroove & MCPS

[Martin Dust]

and such is life.. the important thing if you are an artist is to join the relevent collection agency or get a publisher (better).. because MPCS (GEMA in germany/ ASCAP in USA) will take this money from the label whether you are a member or not....

They don't collect if the artist isn't a member.

[Martin Dust]

There are a lot of people with claims in, so I wouldn't worry so much about the MCPS. I'd worry about the Record Industry pressing plant who have a massive claim in. As 90% of their stock was pressed there, you can guess where the stock is going to end up.

If you had a P&D, I'd forget about the stock they are holding and get read for a bill if you owed Intergroove anything.

[crime]

They don't collect if the artist isn't a member.

Maybe not MCPS, but GEMA in germany has collected money from Zinch for the track I did for them even though I wasn't a GEMA member.. Maybe this is because GEMA had a reciprocal aggrement with my publisher, but a bit rough on Zinch considering I thought there would be no problem with them having to pay mechanical royalties...

[Martin Dust]

Maybe not MCPS, but GEMA in germany has collected money from Zinch for the track I did for them even though I wasn't a GEMA member.. Maybe this is because GEMA had a reciprocal aggrement with my publisher, but a bit rough on Zinch considering I thought there would be no problem with them having to pay mechanical royalties...

If you have a publishing deal then that's the reason it got collected. I know loads of artists who run their own labels that won't join the MCPS because it means paying them to pay themselves.

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If you have a publishing deal then that's the reason it got collected. I know loads of artists who run their own labels that won't join the MCPS because it means paying them to pay themselves.

if you have a deal with a publisher as appose to MCPS or GEMA etc, you can at least do a deal with them where it says on paper that you paid your mechanicals without any money changing hands i.e. you say that you paid him, he says that he recieved the money and then paid it back to you on your royalty statement...

[Martin Dust]

if you have a deal with a publisher as appose to MCPS or GEMA etc, you can at least do a deal with them where it says on paper that you paid your mechanicals without any money changing hands i.e. you say that you paid him, he says that he recieved the money and then paid it back to you on your royalty statement...

I don't know a publisher that would do that because it's how they get paid but do know what you mean but what the **** do you put on your tax bill :)

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I don't know a publisher that would do that because it's how they get paid but do know what you mean but what the **** do you put on your tax bill :)

my publisher pays me in advance and doesn't take commision for releases on their artists own labels, and both payments would be written off as business expenses on tax bills...

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my publisher pays me in advance and doesn't take commision for releases on their artists own labels, and both payments would be written off as business expenses on tax bills...

my point being that he would invoice me for the mechanicals of a release on my own label, take it out of my publishing advance, not take comission as he doesn't take commision on releases by writers releasing on their own labels, and then pay it back to me on my publishing statment.. problem solved...;)