JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum Royalties to producers, mixers and sound engineers

Well recorded music doesn't make much money these days anyway, with a small percentage of an exception.

But technically, if somebody plays drums on your recording, and the recording goes on to make some money, he could sue for performance royalties.

Unless you get some contract before hand saying you are hiring him to play on the recording and that is it.

I guess everybody wants to give themselves a chance to be part of something that could possibly take off at some point.

It's not just about publishers, if you make a recording today, and sell it yourself on iTunes, and it makes money, anybody who was a part of that recording could have their hand out. Unless, you settle it before hand