Greetings all... Thank you for the warm welcome.

Dave- The SGA contract hasn't changed in 30 years. It's still circa 1978! You can go to the guilds home page and find their link to the contract in the left navigation pane.

John- I must have a different definition of "non-exclusive". Do you mean "non-broadcast" license? Otherwise it would be self-publishing, wouldn't it? hmmm... I wonder if we're talking about the same thing or if my perception is flawed?

Hi Vikki- Online music libraries are totally new to me and this may be where my perceptions here are weak. I've always used the traditional methods of pitching tunes to publishers via snail-mail and the only "DEALS" I've gotten were "works for hire" but they paid pretty good.

I spent a few hours on humtoo and registered there but didn't uploaded any tracks. The site is very small. Less than 50 composers and less than 1000 uploaded tracks. Maybe a good ground floor opportunity? I only saw 2 "songs". The rest are instrumentals and most are short clips or samples. The clients seem to be independent film and TV producers. Nothing major that I could see. Maybe down the road for them? It did have a pretty good search engine though for finding specific styles, genre, instrumentation, mood, etc... The whole thing seems oriented to background music for video or animation. I only saw one project that sparked any interest in me but they want full orchestration and I don't have that capability at the moment. So...

Anyway... that's my 2 cents for today.

Jack