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#1816854 - 09/28/07 09:47 AM Music Publishing question...may be the wrong place...
Robitaille59
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I don't know if this is the right place for this but here it goes.

I set up a music publishing company through BMI because I was in a documentary movie and played my acoustic guitar in part of the documentary. They said I had to play an original so I did and then they asked me if I was with Ascap or BMI and I joined BMI immediately there after and registered the song then notified the producer of my BMI status.

The documentary will be broadcasted soon on cable TV and I expect to make some money from it.

My question is that now I want to use some of my original music on an exercise DVD. This DVD will not be played over TV, Radio or in a movie. It will be sold via a website and I'm wondering does that count as a movie....I mean if my music is the background music in an exercise video isn't that the same as scoring a film?
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#1816906 - 09/28/07 12:02 PM Re: Music Publishing question...may be the wrong place... [Re: Robitaille59]
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It's still a video production, and it'll still be sold on the open market. You're still entitled to mechanicals.
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