Quote Originally Posted by crime View Post
Maybe not MCPS, but GEMA in germany has collected money from Zinch for the track I did for them even though I wasn't a GEMA member.. Maybe this is because GEMA had a reciprocal aggrement with my publisher, but a bit rough on Zinch considering I thought there would be no problem with them having to pay mechanical royalties...
If you have a publishing deal then that's the reason it got collected. I know loads of artists who run their own labels that won't join the MCPS because it means paying them to pay themselves.