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Funeral homes must pay royalties for music played at services, French court rules (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] trollercoaster@feddit.de 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least here, a good chunk of that money does indeed fund other cultural endeavors.

Cultural endeavors is a very polite way to put it. A large chunk of it goes to only a handful of big performers in the music industry, the small ones who would actually need money get very little.

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Actually GEMA takes a percentage from the big pop musicians to help fund the contemporary/avantgarde composers who would otherwise earn a lot less. There are plenty of things to complain about with GEMA but I think for the most part they do a lot to support smaller, more obscure genres. (I ran a publishing company for contemporary music in Germany for ten years, so I had a lot to do with GEMA)

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Good for you. Doesn't hold true for the others. Besides the problem that it's too less what they pay out.

[–] AlexS@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How much money did you get from GEMA?

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It depended on many factors like the size of the venue, length and instrumentation of the piece, also the genre. I can't give you an amount in € off the top of my head how much I earned lol.

[–] AlexS@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you don't know how much GEMA gave you, it can't be noteworthy.

Better scrape it. But wait, you can't leave. Any resemblance to mafia?

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Why would I memorize financial information from a company I left years ago just to share it with random strangers on the internet?