(TV) Royalties beaten to death/Tom's lost trust fund: No Deposit No Re turn

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

500,000 to 750,000 album units for Sound & Vision 
divided by 14 years is 36,000 to 54,000 units per year, 
times 8 cents per unit per year is $3,000 to 4,300 per 
year.

Sound & Vision royalties to help TV's retirement fund:
considerably less than $4,000 per year.

Didn't someone in Tom's great-uncle on his mother's 
side (Edwin H.) invent the radio (and modern   
method of tv broadcasting) and thus Tom would have had 
a multi-million dollar trust fund if RCA/Mr. Sarnoff's 
lawyers hadn't gypped relative out of copyright in 1930s? :>)

	Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: karl@rockin-r.net 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:44 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Royalties: Do the Simple Math/Carlucci lost archived
post?


Quoting Cliff McLenehan <klif@volny.cz>:
> 
> > Bowie was selling 250,000 total copies of just Scary Monsters 
> > (worldwide), and then in 1989 and 1990s,the combined total 
> > copies of these two records (Sound + Vision [Box] and 
> > Scary Monsters was only about 300,000 ---except for the first
> > year of Sound & Vision's release when total combined spiked at 
> > 650,000 worldwide.
> 
> I'm not sure you're figures are right Leo. Scarey Monsters has sold 
> 350,000 in Britain alone. It was his most succesful album there since 
> Station To Station. Worldwide sales are closer to the million mark. 

Well, as far as USA sales go, of the two releases only Sound + Vision has earned
the Gold certification (500,000 sales).

http://www.riaa.org/Gold-Intro.cfm
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