Originally posted by daveasdf
I'd never send a tune away without knowledge of the corporations legitimacy. Out of curiosity, what's the going price of a tune that's picked up these days, if it does in fact work that way?

usually one of two things would happen:
1) The band would buy the copyrights of the song off of you, so basically they would own the song and you would not recieve royalties. You could recieve a couple of thousand from a lesser know or indie artist, to tens of thousands for an established act such as "Cher" or "Eric Clapton" (both who buy a lot of songs).

2)You would get paid nothin and retain the copyrights to your music, recieving royalties for airplay, and recieving "points" for the cd. Usually it works out if there's 10 songs on the cd you would recieve 1/10th of the artists earnings. When you realize that most artists earn less then a dollar per cd that doesn't come out to a whole heap of money.