[NewMusic] legal question about venues taking merchandise percentage

[Adam Fong]

In my (limited) experience that percentage is pretty standard.
Regarding the royalties question, typically there is a distributor  
who purchases from the record company (publisher), and the artist  
gets royalties based on that purchase (usually as per whatever  
contract the artist has signed with the record company). Then the  
retailer buys from the distributor at whatever the catalogue price  
is, marks it up to full retail price, and tries desperately to stay  
in business. Self-publishing and self-distributing means you cut out  
the middlemen and get to keep more (85% is a relatively a lot.. after  
all you only get 55% from iTunes, right?), but obviously your net is  
not cast as wide...

Hope this has been helpful...
and hello to this list (this being my first group message)!
adam


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On Sep 19, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Sarah Lockhart wrote:

> Cal Performances takes 15% if you sell them yourself. If they sell  
> them,
> they still charge 15% plus a significant fee to pay for the person  
> selling
> them. Seriously, if you make like $10, they'll still ask for 15% -  
> though
> they will make change for you!
>
> sl
>
> Damon wrote:
> If they provide someone to sell them I don't see it as problem.
>
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