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Songwriters Sign Open Letter “Pact”

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  1. Melody Bot Mar 31, 2021
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    Mark Savage, writing for BBC:

    In an open letter, the writers behind songs like Dua Lipa’s “New Rules” and Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” said “a growing number of artists” were demanding a share of publishing royalties, even if they had contributed nothing to a song.

    ”These artists will go on to collect revenue from touring, merchandise [and] brand partnerships,” they said, but “songwriters have only their publishing revenue as a means of income”.

    They added that composers were often subjected to “bully tactics and threats” by artists and executives who wanted to take a share of the songwriting royalties.

    You can read the open letter at The-Pact.org.

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  2. SupMikecheck Mar 31, 2021
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    Danggg, Im kind of glad Im still 100% independent
     
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  3. theasteriskera Mar 31, 2021
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    If someone writes a song for an artist, then an album is named after the song, a world tour is named after the song, with tons of merch sold inspired by the song... How much does the song writer profit from that? I figure it's completely situational & spelled out in detail in some contract?
     
  4. Jason Mar 31, 2021
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    They would get nothing....
     
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  6. DandonTRJ Mar 31, 2021
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    Well, the writers get performance and mechanical royalties. That said, the artists get neighboring rights royalties through SoundExchange, so I don’t see why they have any principled right to reach into the publishing cookie jar. Seems like a pure power grab.
     
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  7. Jason Mar 31, 2021
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    Yeah, but the person I was replying to seemed to think a writer got royalties based on the title of a song being used in a promotional aspect.
     
  8. theasteriskera Apr 2, 2021
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    The performance and mechanical royalties are the technical terms I was looking for, thanks!
    Nothing about my proposed scenario is "promotional"; they're very tangible, calculatable products based entirely off of a songwriter's intellectual property.
     
  9. Jason Apr 3, 2021
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    So for example, if a writer had a track off Bieber's most recent album and the title of the song was "Justice", you're basically asking if the writer would make extra if his tour was called The Justice Tour or if he sold a t-shirt with the title "Justice" on it. No they wouldn't make anything and it would make no sense for them to get anything.