SoundExchange is keeping royalties from EDM artists; we can help

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Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jun-04-2007 04:14:

SoundExchange is keeping royalties from EDM artists; we can help

SoundExchange is an organization that is supposed to collect royalties and distribute them to artists. However, SoundExchange has a "Missing/Unpaid Artists" list of artists that they supposedly cannot find. Those artists cannot collect their royalties until they contact SoundExchange. If the artists on the list don't claim the royalties that they are due by June 30th, SoundExchange will take the unclaimed money and use it for the company (the artists will not be able to get their royalties).

Here is the list.

I found out about this here. There is a lot of info to read on the topic.

There are a lot of EDM artists listed. Just a couple that I saw while scrolling:

AK 1200
Ayla
Colette
Dieselboy
DJ Icey
Dubtribe Sound System
Frankie Bones (!)
Greece 2000
Grooverider

At least we can do something about this. All we have to do is get in touch with these artists to make sure that they claim their funds before 6/30. It takes a minute to Google up e-mails for most of these artists, and another to write a quick message. You can use this as a template:

quote:

Dear (artist),

I just noticed that you are on SoundExahange's "missing artists" list for royalty payment. This means that they cannot give you the royalties that you deserve because they supposedly can't find you (even though I could get your e-mail address after a minute on Google). Please contact SoundExchange ASAP, because after June 30th all of the undistributed royalties will not be available for you anymore.

Here is the "missing artists" list:
http://plays.soundexchange.com/jsp/unpaidArtistList.jsp

(your name)

Let's try to get all of the EDM artists the money they earned (doing the whole list would take way too long with out lots of help). We can keep track of which artists have been contacted on this thread.

So far I have contacted AK1200, Colette, and Colossus.

Posted by FatJawa on Jun-04-2007 04:15:

so how do you get the royalties?

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jun-04-2007 04:25:

Kraftwerk is on the list! WTF

FatJawa: I'm guessing that you have to contact SoundExchange to receive your royalty check. The majority of artists that are due these royalties are already registered within their database; its the artists that don't have their contact info with SoundExchange that are going to be losing their money.

The thing that gets to me is that SoundExchange claims that its doing what it can to find all of the artists that are due funds, yet they can't spend a minute on Google to find Dieselboy's email address. What a bunch of hypocrites...

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jun-04-2007 22:30:

Anyone?

I know it would suck if I was one of the artists on that list and I wasn't getting that money because of some fuck-up who couldn't bother to find my MySpace...

Posted by ballmouse on Jun-05-2007 00:40:

Frankie Bones posts at the discogs board.

Posted by RJT on Jun-05-2007 00:51:

So long as no-one contacts Dieselboy...

Posted by shaw on Jun-05-2007 00:58:

SOMEONE CALL MASE!

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jun-06-2007 00:36:

quote:
Originally posted by RJT
So long as no-one contacts Dieselboy...

Why not?

I'm sure AK has told him about it anyway, since they are touring together.

ballmouse: Its cool to see bigger DJs being "human". Eating potato chips with Derrick May and Stacey Pullen after their show in Chapel Hill was a blast!