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Yesterday was interesting – I received a royalty check from “BMI” (www.bmi.com). For those who aren’t aware of how performance licensing works, songwriters and publishers choose to affiliate themselves with one of the major “PRO’s” (Performaning Rights Organizations). The 3 well known ones are “BMI”, “ASCAP” and “SESAC“. Since SESAC is a special “invitation only” type organization, most writers make a choice between BMI and ASCAP.

I chose BMI when I initially started publishing my writing commercially – and I’ve only seen a handful of pennies from them ever. I can’t say it would be better with ASCAP because although I’m a BMI writer, I own several songs that are published by ASCAP writers, and we never see royalties on that either.

PRO royalties come from “performances” – TV, Radio, Internet, etc.

Yesterday, I celebrated a whopping check of $12.00 and some change for the “Internet Performances” of the following songs:
“Open Door”
“Peaceful River”
“Pressing In”
“Rejoice In the Lord”

These are titles of themes on my original “QuietTimes” Keyboard Instrumental, which isn’t even “in print” anymore except on cassette.

No clue where this came from – a long time ago, I uploaded these exact songs to IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) so that’s the only way I can figure those songs got “reported” on and paid. Whatever the case, I thought it was cool … small, but cool.

Oh yeah – and finally – because I failed to ever post the results of the ongoing “Ebay Saga” (see previous threads in the archives) … after two months, my Ebay account was reinstated. No excuses, no reasons, no explanation – just a short email saying “we’ve reviewed your appeal and we are happy to reinstate your account”. Lost income for two months, and they have yet to tell me why – go figure!

Oh well – lots of work to do today – but gotta go.. just wanted to share that.

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For the Kingdom,
Fred