About the Author
Name: Mark Holden
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Bio: Mark Holden is a film and television composer based in Los Angeles. Holden is a member of The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), has served as Seminar Chair for The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) as well as Acting Secretary of the American Alliance of Composer Organziations (AACO) in Hollywood.
Mark Holden discusses the financial benefits to composers of joining overseas royalty societies
Mark Holden talks about Tunesat, a new service that allows you to track your own TV music performances for more accurate royalties
Mark Holden and guests take a close look at ASCAP’s multi-million dollar MediaGuide detection system.
For almost 90 years ASCAP has benefited and served the interests of tens of thousands of composers, songwriters, and publishers. Throughout this long history the lessons of particular times and circumstances have accounted for vast changes in ASCAP policies over decades and generations. On the whole, the strides and reforms ASCAP has achieved throughout the [...]
“We have learned that a right that goes unadministered can be forever lost. We have learned this.” — Prof. Dr. Jurgen Becker, Executive Director of GEMA, the Performing and Mechanical Rights Society of Germany. Most of my catalog as a composer is in feature film scores, themes and series television— even a couple of musicals— [...]
Usage weightings are employed by performing rights organizations (PROs) as a means to assign greater or lesser monetary value to music performances in broadcast media. These weightings are allocated by usage categories, including feature performances, themes, background (a rather derogatory, inaccurate and unsophisticated term) and music used in commercials, promos and logos — renamed CPA [...]
Doreen Ringer Ross has been at BMI since 1985, currently as Vice President of Film & Television Relations. We were pleased to interview her in Los Angeles during the fourth quarter of 2000. Mark Holden: How would you best describe your job at BMI? ROSS: Certain aspects of my job are complementary & parallel to [...]
Throwing some light on direct and source licensing was the purpose behind “Music Licensing and the Future,” a seminar sponsored by The American Alliance of Composer Organizations (AACO) and Film Music magazine. The six participating panelists represented professionals from business, academic, legal, administrative and creative facets of the music industry. The forum was moderated by [...]
According to Jack Zwaska, “There is no bogeyman” with regard to direct and source licensing. For 17 years, Zwaska has been the Executive Director of the Television Music License Committee in New York. The Committee is authorized by virtually every local television station in America to negotiate or litigate their music license agreements with ASCAP, [...]
The following is the text of an address given at MIDEM by John Hutchinson, CEO of MCPS/PRS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society/Performing Rights Society) in Great Britain. He is the British counterpart to Frances Preston of BMI, John LoFrumento of ASCAP, Bill Velez of SESAC and Edward Murphy of the Harry Fox Agency, Inc. We are [...]
