Actually, the rate is set by law. For all songs under 5 minutes you just have to pay 9.1 cents per song, for each CD that you burn. So for a twelve track cover CD like this, royalty payments are just over a dollar per CD. Not too bad.
Finally took the plunge and produced a CD
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Actually, the rate is set by law. For all songs under 5 minutes you just have to pay 9.1 cents per song, for each CD that you burn. So for a twelve track cover CD like this, royalty payments are just over a dollar per CD. Not too bad.
Wow.. that's really amazing value..
Did u you have to get permission from the record labels???
There are definitely some moments on the CD that give me goose bumps.
Or it could just be the Spirit touching me.... there students are Christian/Mormons I take it?
You don't HAVE to get permission, because legally they cannot refuse you the right to record the song. Legally you just have to mail them the payments. But I decided to try to get permission because it seemed like the right thing to do. For the most part I used Harry Fox Agency for that, which many/most of the record labels have contracted as a sort of licensing warehouse. However, a substantial number of tracks had to be handled individually and that was a serious pain. Because of that I've probably spent at least 20 hours on just the licensing aspects of this album. Next time I plan to go with Limelight, which is a company that just serves the record labels notice and gives them the payments without bothering to ask for permission of any sort.
I assume most of them are, because most (but not all) are BYU students, and the vast majority of BYU students (but not all) are Mormon. But it's not like I took a survey before letting them be on the album.
Sorry, not this album. I sing in the Utah Baroque Ensemble, though, and we may be coming out with an album in a few months also. If so I'll probably post a link to the album. Here's our website: https://utahbaroque.org/. Looks like we don't have any audio clips there, but if you really want to listen to us, I've posted a bunch here: https://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/colton/personal/choral_music.html
Like you'll "artificially inflate" their rep to 150? Or just give them a pos rep? One is more tempting than the other.
Whatever it takes to make a sale... ;-)
Actually, no, I meant I would give them a pos rep.
Edgewriter
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Put me down for one, Colton.
How negotiable is that? I would consider buying multiple copies if I were given a rep of 150 for a day coupled with unlimited ability to use it.