Rumblefish

[Robin G]

Hi all:

I just got a payment from them (one of the larger ones in my monthly CDBaby payouts), and never really heard of this company.  So I googled, and have read some negative things.  Does anyone here any experience with them?

Thanks.

Robin Greenstein 

www.robingreenstein.com

Singer-Songwriter-Song Interpreter

[sonl...@aol.com]

My experience is they collect monies owed from private parties for "licensing" (i.e. when some civilian turns part of your tune into a ringtone or someone grabs your music for a youtube video....)  Not a lot of money but they send me something almost every month which proves they are catching revenue for me that I would NOT have otherwise found.

 

I know they are both diligent and (often) belligerent because in two seperate occassions they made me PROVE that I owned the music attached to my OWN youtube videos... and they checked BMI to insure I was the author... and they weren't too 'nice' about it.

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[Robin G]

I see that's what they do, but what happens when you have monitized your own Youtube channel?  isn't that pilfering a cut from your own share, in a payment system you've already set up?

Thanks.

Robin Greenstein

[Sonl...@aol.com]

They pestered me and were quite persistent but they ended up NOT forcing me to pay myself for using my own music.  The "associate" who contacted me said that musicians who use their own music on YouTube actually makes up less than 1% of all the music used on YouTube.  He indicated that there are (literally) millions of YouTube video's created by non-musicians who freely use unlicensed music on monitized channels and that's who they are going after...

 

He finished by explaining it was in MY best interest that he be successful....

 

Son Lewis
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