Last week I got an email from one of the publishers I work with (Eric) asking if I had already received my royalty payment from BMI for a song I wrote which he got placed on the CW Network. The song had gotten a pretty good amount of airplay so the payment was significant enough for him to make sure everything was in order. Unfortunately it wasn’t.
I told Eric that I had not received any payment from BMI for that particular song, but that I would contact them to find out what had happened. I called up BMI and spoke to a registration representative. I explained to her my situation and she quickly went to work on finding out what may have happened. I was on the phone with her about a good 15 to 20 minutes when she told me that they did not have me registered as a songwriter for that particular song. In fact they had not even been collecting songwriter dues for that song at all.
