Don't get me started
Do you know that, in order to get my points as "producer", I need to put myself as the "arranger" onto the sheet to MESAM/MSG here, even though I am the guy who hires an arranger to do an arrangement to a section of my production?
And if I forget to put it in writing in advance, the law gives that arranger 10% automatically, while I get a sweet bugger-all if I try to put myself in as the "producer", for to be able to be a producer, I need to be a chartered label registered to another body called MÜYAP, for some suckers failed to distinguish the producers role from an executive producers, so the law makers thought it was an erroneous repeat and "corrected" it by themselves?
And if I am covering a song, then I need to be a member of another body called MÜYORBIR, in order to get a share from my rendition of somebody else's song?
And even though I, the artist, am the guy who pays for everything for the production of my album, I can not have my album released and put on the shelves and got into legal pay-per-listen/download networks unless I register myself with MÜYAP, which costs over 10,000TL (say 4,200Euros+) alone and requires me to release two albums in my first year to avoid expulsion as a label, if I am accepted among their gang at all? Or otherwise I have to sign my album away to a label that is already registered, which is not obliged (and not voluntary either) to pay me a cent to have that album in their catalogue?
Wherever you are on earth, just bear in mind that all the corners are already taken, buddy.
"Bir dokun, bin ah isit."
B.