New Use and Re-Use

Protect Your Investment

So what CAN happen?

Say you record a jingle...for starters, jingles run in 13-week cycles, so if it continues to play, you receive a check every 13 weeks.  And that jingle could be used in a movie or on a record, resulting in new use payments.  Thanks to AFM contracts, members of KC and the Sunshine Band are still making money on things they did 20 years ago. 

Re-use too!

That movie you played for could come out in videocassette or be shown on TV.  One band made 4-figures sidelining in a movie.  The next year, they received a check in the mid-3 figures when the movie went to videocassette.  Then the movie went to pay TV...Cable TV...free TV...get the idea?  $24 million was distributed in re-use last year; that's 1-3% of the gross annually. How do I know if I should get a check?

Rest assured that if your recording is reused or picked up for new use, you will get the money due to you.  The AFM has a department devoted exclusively to monitoring for new- and re-use.  They continuously audit to check for payments and money due.