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news:
05/08/09
I received a letter from Pump Audio, who is owned by Getty Images, the other day announcing that they were changing their royalty structure. The letter read as follows:
- 1) Licensing fees will now be 35% to the artist, 65% to Pump Audio/Getty Images
- 2) This change will take place as of July 1, 2009. Any royalties payable through June 30, 2009 will not be affected by this change
- 3) Performance royalty splits will remain at 50% of the publisher’s share
- 4) Those that don’t accept the new split will have their music removed from the system no later than December 31, 2009.
- 5) The rights you granted to us in the original contract do not change
As you can see Pump Audio / Getty Images now deem their services worth 65% of licensing fees for their artists work, and if we as pump artists don't like it we can basically get f#!ked.
I understand that Pump Audio / Getty Images does provide infrastructure and sales support to it's artists, but without us they wouldn't have anything to sell. Traditional relationships of this kind have been 50/50, and this was the case with Pump Audio / Getty Images before the recent change.
The greed Pump Audio / Getty Images is displaying by strong arming their artist out of 15% is what all stock contributers will have to look forward to in the future unless the artists refuse to conform to their demands.
If you have a story or opinion you would like to share about Pump Audio / Getty Images, please go to the "your thoughts" button at the top of the page, send me your message, and I will post it here.
Also if anyone is looking for an alternative venue www.rumblefish.com has been good to me so far. Please visit www.pumpGetty.com
11/10/08
11/03/08
The other day I was riding my bike in prospect park with a group of people. We were going about 25mph in a peloton. I was somewhere in the middle when a stick got thrown up from one of the guys in the front. The stick went into my spokes. The next thing I knew I was sitting on the ground with a bunch of guys freaking out around me. They called the paramedics and I spent the rest of the day in the er getting my forehead stitched up and most of my ear sewn back on. They called in a plastic surgeon to do the work, he said that any scaring should be very minimal. Who knows maybe it will make me better looking:)
08/17/08
Five Seven One is well under way, with travel photos, stories and tips brought to you by yours truly and the lovely Marcy Milks. You can visit our awesome blog at the following address: http://www.fivesevenone.com
03/04/08
07/05/07
06/06/1977 - 2007
Today I am thirty and thirty degrees from the arctic circle.
Other events that have taken place on this great day in the past:
- 1808 - Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
- 1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
- 1933 - The first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, N.J.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
- 1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another.
- 1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
- 2005 - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana even in states that approve its use.
Some Illustrious persons I share this name day with:
- 1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
- 1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776)
- 1799 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
- 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
- 1875 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1923 - V.C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
- 1949 - Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Kruger)
04/26/07
My third album, "Requiem for the Living." is finished. You can listen to the entire album by clicking here to launch player. As soon as the artwork and printing is finished you will be able to purchase your own copy for $10.00 at the Hugh Mann store.
03/04/07
02/09/07
The Hugh Mann music store is up and running. Both "Conspiracy of Good and Evil" and "Absence of a Straight Line" are available for $10.00. Click here to buy Hugh Mann Music.
10/23/06
07/16/06
This past year has been busy. Getting married, lots of work, Guyana, and my new album that will be released late next week with cover art by the lovely Marcy Milks. The album released under the name Hugh Mann consists of 10 tracks of intelligent electronica. Drop me an e-mail with your address if you want a copy. You can also download the album or give it a listen at my main music site: www.iamhughmann.com.
04/16/06
04/08/06
When sick people would visit a Medicine Man in Guyana, he would give them a drug made from an extract from this frog which would make the person appear as if they were dead. Then he would call the whole village together for a ceromony to bring the deceased back to life. When the effect of the drug wore off the patient would awaken still sick, but alive. This photo is approximately to scale.
10/08/05
08/22/04
