Re: How does royalty work for music played on radio?

"SoCal Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I had always understood that the Pepper-Tanner packages were roylalty free;
> but, using stingers from other works were not. I believe that there were a
> couple of different companies that sold jingle packages (similar to the
> Pepper-Tanner packages) where license fees had to be paid.  

I was actually talking about the production music packages from such
sources as Tanner, CRC (that's getting *really* old!), CBS, etc. 
These disks had mostly music beds and stingers.  All were
royalty-free.  (Well, not really, because the royalty was paid in the
purchase of the libraries.  I remember one package of I think 5 CBS
production music records that went for something like $600.

However, I do remember hearing some P&T jingle production music for
various national sponsors like Chevy, Kodak, etc.  They were all
original tunes and quite horrible.  None were usable for any purpose
except perhaps a joke reel.