Possibility of selling performing rights online

What do you think about the matter that composers can sell their performing rights directly to performers, without any intermediary like performing rights societies? You see, I met in the internet this proposal of selling performing rights online http://www.load.cd/services/performing_rights.html. I've never seen similar services in the internet. May be you have? Please, share your opinion...

In small volume it seems like a nice idea in theory. However, once your stuff gets played a whole lot, esp. in media, its logistically impossible to keep track of all of it, hence ASCAP or BMI. I'm a member of ASCAP simply because I don't want to deal with all that hullabaloo in collecting royalties and assigning performance rights. Why not just let everyone who has an ASCAP license play the works for a fee? Its the best way IMO because you get a really large audience that way and you get paid.

In small volume it seems like a nice idea in theory. However, once your stuff gets played a whole lot, esp. in media, its logistically impossible to keep track of all of it, hence ASCAP or BMI. I'm a member of ASCAP simply because I don't want to deal with all that hullabaloo in collecting royalties and assigning performance rights. Why not just let everyone who has an ASCAP license play the works for a fee? Its the best way IMO because you get a really large audience that way and you get paid.

I've got to ask: what's your profit as a young composer from ASCAP? My senses say nil or less; but I could be wrong...

I'd be interested in learning more about that site honestly.

I am a member of ascap as a publisher and composer now...Figuring out how it all works...If anyone has lots of experience with this, I think a thread speaking on that is in need atm. I will try to see if one of my old professors can shed some light on this for us as well.

I applied for ASCAP but got an email back saying that my work had to be performed regularly commercially OR I had to have works published. How'd you all get around that?

I applied for ASCAP but got an email back saying that my work had to be performed regularly commercially OR I had to have works published. How'd you all get around that?

I don't remember the application exactly, but you should be able to become a member if you have a piece performed in public. I think you need to list the performer(s), venue, and date of the performance, then you can become a member. Technically your work is already published since it is distributed in a tangible form (.pdfs on this site, for instance), but ASCAP won't recognize you as a publisher until you can list a performance.

The only money I've ever made from ASCAP was those two performances of "Explosions of Joy" by the New York Philharmonic, close to $200.

I applied for ASCAP but got an email back saying that my work had to be performed regularly commercially OR I had to have works published. How'd you all get around that?

There isn't a way around it. The whole point of ASCAP is to manage royalties from either performance or publishing. If you have neither why do you need membership? Its a waste of paperwork.

Register as a publisher first. Then you say that you publish your own music. You still need at least one work to have been performed and just put the date of performance.