Helen G Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 I was doing other tasks with the Food Network show(s) playing on TV in the background, when all of a sudden I heard the unmistakable soaring vocals of Eric Carmen on "Hungry Eyes" being used in the new Minions/Gru movie ads that tie in with IHOP! I hope EC gets a pile of money with a performer's cut of the broadcast rights! 😉 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda B Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Helen, that is pretty cute! Advertisers could do a lot with the song/title Hungry Eyes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Haha- good one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Cool! Go, Eric! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I seem to recall that Eric sold his catalog to Round Hill Music in 2018. Will he still be able to collect royalties for current use of his talents? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 The rights to a song, and the compensation for its use, are divided into two parts: the rights to use the composition and the rights to the particular performance itself. So, yes, Eric gets paid for this commercial. Had the advertising agency used a sound-alike singer and re-recorded the tune, only the songwriter would get paid a royalty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen G Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 On 6/27/2022 at 5:53 AM, Raspbernie said: The rights to a song, and the compensation for its use, are divided into two parts: the rights to use the composition and the rights to the particular performance itself. So, yes, Eric gets paid for this commercial. Had the advertising agency used a sound-alike singer and re-recorded the tune, only the songwriter would get paid a royalty. Thank you, Bernie, for that explanation! 👍 I made a logical leap when posting this thread in the first place that EC might indeed have a $take in this nationwide ad! 💲 While my husband Jay and I run a smallish "niche" music publishing company with a worldwide reach in the a cappella scene, our focus is generally on print rights (i.e. sheet music for ensembles to use legally), performance rights (concerts), and mechanical (tangible media - albums,CDs, etc.) & streaming rights. My husband has written jingles, etc. used for TV commercials (NBC "Must See TV" national campaign. His longtime barbershop quartet champ buddy John Miller just retired from NBC network after a very long and marketing-industry-respected career - John was THE NBC guy onsite at every single the Olympics IBC going back a couple decades calling the shots on all the Olympics promo ads - John used to throw some of these NBC jingle gigs to Jay whenever he could! 😉 and a lot of local Chicago ads during the time when we still lived in the greater Chicagoland area) , but they were generally works-for-hire (i.e. one-time payment for his time/compositional effort) for which he was not paid broadcast royalties. Then again, Jay and his Chicago Chord of Trade quartet buddies were roped into filling in about 15 seconds of musical vocals for a dog food commercial due to the tenor singer's personal connection with a production studio owner in Chicago. That commercial went nationwide and they all got some pretty serious broadcast royalty revenue - hahaha - go figure! A gig is a gig, as they say! 😎 The first JDM "retirement" was really a sidestep into a whole new massive global gig really: https://deadline.com/2010/06/its-official-top-nbc-marketing-exec-john-miller-to-exit-at-the-end-of-the-year-48335/ But now JDM has officially retired (and I know his wife Sharon is beyond thrilled - they never went on any vacations in the last 20+ years - while she had great seats at the various Olympics venues, she barely saw her husband the entire time they were there! 😉 https://marketshare.tvnewscheck.com/2022/05/26/john-miller-legendary-nbc-tv-marketing-guru-retiring-after-43-years/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 On 6/27/2022 at 5:53 AM, Raspbernie said: The rights to a song, and the compensation for its use, are divided into two parts: the rights to use the composition and the rights to the particular performance itself. So, yes, Eric gets paid for this commercial. Had the advertising agency used a sound-alike singer and re-recorded the tune, only the songwriter would get paid a royalty. So, if they used Celine Dion's version of All by Myself, he would have received nothing. Is this accurate?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen G Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 23 minutes ago, Vinnie B Trask said: So, if they used Celine Dion's version of All by Myself, he would have received nothing. Is this accurate?? No, because EC owns 85% of the compositional rights; Rachmaninoff Estate controls 15% compositional rights, so he would get the compositional rights royalties in that situation but not the performer rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 1 hour ago, Helen G said: No, because EC owns 85% of the compositional rights; Rachmaninoff Estate controls 15% compositional rights, so he would get the compositional rights royalties in that situation but not the performer rights. But he sold his composition rights and publishing in 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.