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Hello,
I have conducted a new interview with Mike Matessino for JWFan where we primarily discuss the new E.T.: 35th Anniversary Edition set and the John Williams Jurassic Park Collection. We also briefly cover Stanley and Iris / Pete 'n' Tillie, CE3K, Jaws in concert, and some other topics.
Please enjoy!
http://www.jwfan.com/?p=9994
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Very interesting interview! I just finished reading it -- great job.
Yavar
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Thanks Yavar!
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It means it costs more for a label to release a 15 minute track than it does to release the same music as two tracks, one 8 minutes and one 7 minutes.
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Fascinating interview, thank you. Damn that 2008 fire!
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The best people to explain it would those who work at the disc manufacturing plants.
It's actually referring to the legal aspect i.e. reuse fees.
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I like that LLL got permission to make a limited run of E.T. posters, but massively dislike that they will be for Mondo, ensuring that none of us will be able to get one. Wish they were available through LLL, where we maybe would have had a chance.
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It means it costs more for a label to release a 15 minute track than it does to release the same music as two tracks, one 8 minutes and one 7 minutes.
Thank you 
Is there a reason for this? It seems not very logical in the first place?
Hi Don,
When you create a track of audio for release you are "publishing" it. It's called a "mechanical" because you are putting it onto a "mechanism" (an outdated term as it was meant to imply making a tape, record, disc, etc.) So the entity controlling the publishing must be paid. The rate is generally fixed, so in the past there was nothing to stop a label from releasing two 30-minute suites and paying two mechanical royalties to the publisher and saving some serious money. Now it's tiered so that the rate is higher if a track is over 10 minutes. So that same hour of music will now be 6 or 7 tracks minimum and the publisher makes some money.
Conversely it means that it's possible to do 30 and 40 second tracks if it makes sense to do so, because the publishers, via the owner of the recordings, can grant the label a "mechanical cap," which means that a label pays for a maximum of "x" number of tracks even if their release exceeds that number.
So let's say to properly present a score we need 30 tracks, with some of them being very short... there might be a mechanical cap of 20 so that the label doesn't have to go broke on it, but those 30 tracks will then all be kept under 10 minutes so that the rate stays the same for all of them.
Aren't you glad you asked?
Mike M.
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Best to wait for the specifics. However, there were no tracks recorded just for the album on CE3K.
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