Re: Safe (from Harm)

k kiernan
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:21:32 -0500

if klein settled for 100% of the publishing, he gets (us dollars) $0.0695
per copy of the song. given that he can claim it's an "adapted" work, he
can ask for anything he wants, but the realities of the biz are such that
he's probably settled for the 6.95 cents (if it's under 5 minutes. if over,
it's an additional 1.3 cents for each additional minute or part thereof.
the basic rate increased to 7.1 cents this january).

i know you were all dying to know this....

kevin k

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Mullen <mcfly@tcp.co.uk>
To: Justin Small <justins@kalamazoo.co.uk>
Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 19, 1998 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: Safe (from Harm)

>At 13:15 19/03/98 -0000, you wrote:
>
>I wonder what the "Stratus" sampling cost them in terms of publishing
>>>royalties ?
>
>>I bet it cost a fair bit. It isn't just a sneaky sample, it's like the
>>whole song!
>>I know that when The Verve did Bitter Sweet Symphony, the orchestral bit
>>is from a classical version of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time"
>>performed by the Loog-Oldham orchestra. They got stung for every penny!
>>Then again that track kick-started their careers to big time, and I
>>think in Massive Attack's case, it added to a brilliant debut album and
>>they've never looked back.
>
>Mind you....The Verve used the sample without permission and were pretty
>powerless to stop Alan Klein (the owner of the copwrite) asking for 100% of
>the publishing royalties. Must amount to a great deal of money....