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Originally Posted by ButchP  As far as going under I have no idea where you even got that impression. |
Sorry, that was unclear. My point was, I wouldn't miss them if they did.
Glad you're having a good experience with SESAC, but I fully stand by my assertion that a PRO that doesn't accept anyone and everyone who needs to have even just a handful of published tracks licensed is undermining the system - they only can get away with it because ASCAP and BMI take care of everyone until they reach a point where SESAC may or may not graciously deign to accept them.
Think about it - where would you have been without them all those years, before you were making enough to get in SESAC? If the SESAC-type approach was the only game in town, who reps you when you get started?)
SESAC is basically having someone else take care of the hard work for them, only to then siphon off revenue once that hard work pays off for some of the artists, without shouldering any of the cost and toil of getting them there. Hence "elitist" and "torpedoing". IMHO, there's really no other way of putting it.
As for getting time from my PRO rep, no problems here - I have excellent personal rapport with a number of people at ASCAP (my PRO) both in NYC and LA, and even with folks at BMI here in LA, despite the fact they don't even rep me. Now I'm sure that SESAC's service is first-rate - but of course that's easy to do when you cherry-pick only the top earners.