Making Money Licensing Your Music to TV and Movies!

Do you have a home studio?  Do you have original music sitting around on tape, LP’s, CD’s or your computer?  Right now, you can be pitching your music to television shows, film, and media (web, phone, games, etc.) Every kind of instrumental and vocal music is in-demand.   You can make money and advance your career at the same time. This class will give you quick and easy information on all aspects of music licensing. The class will cover home studios, arrangements, publishers, public domain, copyright, royalties, underscore, cue sheets, credits, music libraries, exclusive and non-exclusive deals, scoring to picture, lawyers, and more. There is nothing like hearing your music on a TV show or in a movie theatre. Future royalties could create a new income stream for the rest of your life. Anyone can make money licensing their music.

Instructor: Ed Hartman, composer and performer (edhartmanmusic.com) Ed’s music has been used on television (HBO, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, TLC, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL, ETC.) and in motion pictures (The Blind Side, Cool It, Mini’s First Time, Surviving Christmas) The class will be held Monday, June 4, 2012, 7:30-9:30PM, at the Seattle Musicians Union, 3209 Eastlake Avenue East  Seattle, WA 98102  INFO:  (206) 441-7600

Cost: FREE to Local 76-493 Members! ($10 Non-union members) Presented by Olympic Marimba Records. Reservations required, Limited space.  

WHAT

Fair Trade Music is a grassroots campaign of NW musicians, supported by the Musician's Association of Seattle, Local 76-493 AFM and the Musicians’ Union, Local 99 AFM (Portland). Through advocacy, education, and recognition, they are working to:

• BUILD a better music scene with a higher level of musicianship and professionalism
• EXTEND the same rights to musicians as those of other workers
• FORGE equal partnerships between clubs and musicians

WHY

• The current situation in most music clubs is unsustainable, inequitable and doesn't actually support the creation of great music.
• Musicians are expected to bring a majority of fans to their gigs, often through advertising at their own expense, time that would be better spent practicing.
• Musicians are expected to perform for zero or negative guarantees.
• Money at the door goes to sound, door, lights, and advertising first; Musicians split whatever might be left over.
• Pressured by monetary expensed, most musicians are forced to work other jobs and frequently have limited time to fully prepare the music or have to leave the profession altogether.

HOW TO SUPPORT FAIR TRADE MUSIC

• By building and promoting a brand of quality music
• By partnering with clubs to help them thrive - without them, musicians don't thrive
• By promoting honest, open, and robust partnerships between venues and musicians
• By helping fans and musicians alike understand the differences between a hobby and a service
• By helping venues understand the long-term lasting value of investing in great music to entertain their patrons

WHO
Fair Trade Music is comprised of a diverse group of union and non-union musicians. 

YOU

Please attend a general meeting – OPEN TO ALL MUSICIANS

Monday, August 13 at 7:00pm – Labor Temple 2800 First Ave, Hall 1
(at the corner of First Ave. and Broad St in downtown Seattle). Motter Snell, President, AFM Local 76-493 and other professional guests will participate as a panel.

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!! Send concerns, ideas and solutions to:

Email: info@local76-493.org  Web: www.SeattleMusicians.org  Phone: 206-441-7600

Musicians’ Association of Seattle, Local 76-493, AFM  3209 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102

Venuology was created to help musicians share information about music venues — alerting them to clubs that don't treat musicians well, and also those that do. With this website, we hope musicians will have an easier time deciding where to perform — and as a result, that venues will feel more pressure to improve pay, sound quality or other problems.

The reviews on this site are written by our users — in other words, musicians! Venue reviews are subjective and you're the best judge of the credibility of each review. Any musician can review a venue he or she has played at — joining Venuology is free and anonymous.

There are over 120 live music venues listed in the Seattle/Puget Sound region with more being added every day.

Venuology is a project of the American Federation of Musicians, a labor union representing over 90,000 musicians of all genres in North America.

WHAT

Fair Trade Music is a grassroots campaign of Portland musicians, supported by the Musician's Union Local 99.

Through advocacy, education, and recognition, they are working to

BUILD
a better music scene with a higher level of musicianship and professionalism

EXTEND
the same rights to musicians as those of other workers, and to

FORGE
equal partnerships between clubs and musicians.

WHY

The current situation in most music clubs is inequitable, unsustainable, and doesn't actually support the creation of great music.

Musicians are expected to bring a majority of the fans not by practicing and preparing, but by doing most of the advertising at their own expense.

They are expected to perform for zero or negative guarantees.

Money fans pay to see them goes to the sound,door, lights, and advertising first - musicians split whatever might be left over and might end up owing money.

Expected to work other jobs, musicians frequently have limited time to fully prepare the music.

Poverty forces many musicians to leave the profession before they reach their potential.

Ultimately, fans are deprived of the best music.

HOW

By building and promoting brand of quality music.

By partnering with clubs to help them thrive - without them, musicians don't thrive.

By promoting honest, open, and robust partnerships between venues and musicians

By helping fans and musicians alike understand the differences between a hobby and a service

By helping venues understand the long-term lasting value of investing in great music to entertain their patrons

WHO

Fair Trade Music is comprised of a diverse group of union and non-union musicians.

Members!  Plan ahead.  March is open enrollment month for Group Helth for all members.  Please check the healthcare page for the new rates.  Yes those rates are monthly premiums NOT annual.  New rates take effect on April 1, 2012

OFFER ENDS JANUARY 31. Save 10% off of your annual dues for 2012 by paying in full for the year before Jan. 31, 2012 for a total of $172.80.  Eliminate the hassle of quarterly dues and potential late fees.

Local 76-493 and the University of Washington Labor Archives are working together to catalogue, preserve, and store our historical records. We are asking help in locating the former Local 493’s minutes, ledgers and other documents. Local 493 amalgamated into Local 76 in 1954. Do you have a lead? Please contact the office. 206-441-7600

The Musicians' Association of Seattle has been working on a new CMS website for the last year and we hope you like the many changes and upgrades that have been implemented.  We are using state of the art "Search Engine Optimization" techniques to help members and our pages to show up in more prominent positions of the search engine pages.  Please take a look around.  If you have questions, comments, ideas etc. just send us an email.  It will help us if you include a link to the page(s) in question with the correction or idea.  Thanks!

Members who need to add a listing, change their photos or contact info need to do the following:

• Include a high quality photo of you or your all union ensemble (color looks the best).
• Tell us what pages and categories you want to be listed on (instructors and or performance acts).  Performance Act listings must include a link to a website, Myspace page or a Facebook Fan page.
• Include all current email, website & telephone info.
• Send this to Business Representative Kirsten James  Please allow 1-4 days for changes to be made.

"At one end of the 5th Avenue Theater's orchestra pit, Paul Hansen has set up a sort of cage, or magpie nest, of percussion instruments—surrounding himself, 360 degrees, with no fewer than 35 of them, each needed at some point in the exotic, Arabian-flavored score of Aladdin...There's only one way into this setup, and on a recent Sunday evening before showtime, Hansen opens a door at the lip of the stage and acrobatically snakes under a rack of gongs and perches on a stool. "If I can walk out standing upright," he says, "I've wasted space somewhere."  Read more on member Paul Hansen by Gavin Borchert of the Seattle Weekly.

As bigger and bigger examples of corporate malfeasance splash across the headlines every day, joining a labor union for my livelihood seems more and more important. I know that many readers will quickly point to examples of corruption in organized labor, but labor unions have historically served an important role in protecting workers from exploitation and more. As they grow weaker over time, the scales have tipped radically in favor of big corporations and against workers for many years in this country, and the impact has been felt by millions. Read more here.

The long-term success of AFM's legislative efforts depends on making sure that our allies in the House of Representatives and the Senate remain in office. Donating to their reelection campaigns is the best way to see that they remain in Congress. Therefore, it is necessary that we raise contributions to AFM's political action committee.

The Musicians' Association of Seattle publishes the bi-monthly (7 issues per year) newspaper "Musicland" for our roster of 500 or so professional musicians in Seattle and Western Washington. Local 76-493 members receive a 20% discount on all ads.  Please add a 3% service charge if paying by credit card.

Ad space is available in the following sizes and rates:

3" x 2" (business card) $20.00/issue

3" x 4" (quarter page) $50.00/issue

6" x 4.5" (half page) $100.00/issue

Just email us or give us a call for more info or help with your ad.  206-441-7600