You know the kind that don’t allow us to record online music, movies etc.
Who makes the money that is somehow charged for music videos movies etc.
I’m wondering if the technical people that man the high tech equipment get anything from the royalties for their expertise?
How far down the ladder does the money go???
Who gets the royalties depends on what you’re buying.
For a book, for instance (hardcover), the author gets 10-15% of the cover price. The rest goes to the bookseller, distributor, and publisher to pay their expenses, including printing, advertising, sales, overhead, etc.
For music, it depends. If music is played on the air or at a public event, the money goes to the songwriters. Most of it, as a matter of fact, except for a small percentage (maybe 5%) to ASCAP or BMI for their overhead.
For CDs, I’m not absolutely sure, but I believe the band (or perhaps the songwriters alone) gets a percentage of the CD price. The rest is distributed similarly to books.
People who are invoved in the production may or may not get royalties, depending on where they land. Studio musicians, for instance, get a set fee for their work. A big name CD producer probably can name royalties, but others get paid a set fee.
Most of the people who work for record companies get paid salaries plus (for the big shots) bonuses. The CD sales pays them, but only in the sense in that it’s income for the company that goes into the coffers to pay their salaries.
The royalties are simply the portion of the sales that go to the artists, but the rest of the money goes to everybody else. A studio fronts the money to produce a record or movie, which includes all of the production costs plus advertising, etc. The crew may not get paid directly out of that money, but if CD/Movie sales slump for one title because of piracy, that’s money that they won’t have to spend on othhr projects. Put another way, slumping CD sales have meant fewer jobs in the recording industry.
Back in the '50s, my dad was in a big band. They made a record. Each of the musicians got a copy of it.
Fast forward to the late 80s. My dad’s birthday is coming up and I decide to have his album professionally transferred to CD (we played the bejeezus out of it when we were kids, and it was starting to show signs of wear).
Anyhoo, the guy that transferred it made me get permission for each song on the album. I went through (Fred) Fox, I think. It was a huge pain in the ass, and I ended up paying something like 16 cents per tune to create one copy of the album. And nobody sent my dad a check, either. I’d like to know who got THAT money.