No royalties for artists from thirdy party distribution via toolbox
Hi Ben, Please contact me back ASAP after reading.
Two tracks of mine are available for purchase on your site Toolbox with label TTLF.
But when I googled my tracks, they're actually available not only for purchase on your site but many others, as well as for streaming.
So I contacted the label owner Jonni from TTLF about royalties, he told me that because you and him have a good relationship, he is one of the labels you offer to list the music on his label to these other platforms via whatever distribution networks, label workx he mentioned.
But the upshot is, my own music is on multiple sites for purchase and streaming yet I and the fellow track creators are not getting a bean, this is simply not right!
I'd never of agreed for TTLF to allow Toolbox/yourself to distribute elsewhere if I knew I'd be recieving nothing, this is of course completely fair and justified of me to say.
No matter how much is owed even if it is pounds or pence it is still owed.
I have a serious brain tumor that I'm waiting for surgery on, it can kill me any moment, on top of that I've had a stroke and on top of that I have a rare genetic disorder, reason I tell you this is because given the above and the fact the NHS are very bad I'm having to fund treatment myself which ain't cheap, point being every little helps regardless of how small, and I need it like yesterday.
As far as I currently know, TTLF owes any royalty share to me and the co creators of the track, but toolbox owe the royalties first to TTLF from these other sale and stream distributions as it was set up by toolbox.
Do you have them or are they owed to you to send to the label?
Please confirm what the situation is, if it transpires you have them, then why have they not been paid to the label in order to then pay myself?
If you don't have them please inform me of the reason(s) and if and when to expect them.
If you are not expecting them any time soon then please remove the track from everywhere it was sent to other than Toolbox. Of course I'd then still be owed whatever it is up until that point.
Somewhere down the line someone is profiting on my music and I'm not which simply isn't right.
It may be pennies but that doesn't matter, pennies/pounds from multiple tracks of all artists will result in someone profiting a good deal.
Many thanks for reading.