There is some variety among the discount levels as well. Nearly half of the discounted rates are at one-half the statutory rate of 24, and additima, significant percentages are at a 1/2¢ and 3/4¢ discount. This variety is somewhat greater than that of a decade ago. It appears that individual på..shers are setting their own discount policies and no single pattern has ret appeared. But it should be noted that even for such records most publishers ton"„due to have standard discounts for their own tunes which are used in but get a hunts

"blocks" of tunes are often recordings of works of a single well-known composer. These 40 block discount royalty rates were all for tunes on 4 regular LP albums:

In one album a publishing company granted a 1/4 discount on

a block of 10 tunes which it owned and which made up the entire
record.

(#312.)

Another publishing company granted a 1/24 discount per tune
for a 12-tune record on which it owned the entire block of 12
tunes.

(#349.)

Another record involved a contract with a film producer and several
publishing companies for the film score involving a record of 14
tunes. One of these publishing companies granted a rate of 6¢
for a block of 5 tunes 1 tune at 24 and 4 at 14. Another granted
a rate of 8¢ for a block of 5 tunes - 3 at 24 and 2 at 14. The
rates for the other 4 tunes of other owners were at the statutory
level.

(#301.)

Finally, one publishing company arranged a set of rates for a 16-
tune album, all tunes owned by it, on a volume basis. The album
rate for the first 50,000 records sold was 234, for the next 50,000
was 25¢, and for all sales above 100,000 was about 33¢ per album.
Four of the tunes were no longer than average and had royalty rates
greater than 24. All other tunes were of shorter than average dura-
tion and the block rates arranged were 2 at 14, and 10 at 3/4 for
the first 50,000 records sold. (#369.)

There were also 28 licensed tunes on 5 albums with royalty rates of less than 24 on the basis of their being designated as "medley discounts". Such medley discount rates occurred as follows:

On one album (367) of 20 tunes there was a 6-selection medley
and a 2-selection medley. The first medley ran for 3-1/2 minutes
with 5 tunes, each from a different publishing company at a 1/24
discount and the sixth involving a split between two publishing

companies at a 1/4 discount (one publishing company granted 1/24
but the other refused to grant any discount). The second medley
ran for two minutes and 50 seconds with one publisher granting a
le discount and the other insisting on the statutory rate.

• A second album (0373) of 16 tunes had discounted rates of 1/24
for three transitional tunes of 5 seconds, 9 seconds, and 19 seconds
duration.

• A third album (#418) of 11 tunes with one longer than average had
a discount of le on a transitional tune of very short duration.

• The fourth album (#431) of 15 tunes had a 5-tune medley with all tunes owned by the same publisher on which a medley rate of 3/44 per tume was granted.

The fifth album (#354) of 21 tunes contained 2 medleys each of 7
tunes. All 7 tunes of the first medley which ran 4 minutes and
50 seconds were owned by the same publishing company which granted
a discount of is on each tune. No two of the tunes of the second
7-tune mediey, which ran just over 5 minutes, were owned by a single
publisher No discounts were granted on 3 of these tunes, a le dis-
count was granted on another 3 of these tunes, and a 1-1/4¢ discount
was granted on the seventh tune.

Though

In these rates, certain practices are revealed that are more or less standard in the industry. They cover situations which we have designated as artist-interest discounts, block discounts, and medley discounts. the aquants of discounts granted in these instances are not uniform, the camp,es of real bargaining between the parties concerned are rare, because the practices of any one publisher are usually standardized.

In sum, we have looked at Regular albums released over the better part of a year by two well-known record makers and have found that the mrsity rates paid were the statutory rate or standard, uniformly available, variations therefrom