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ray_ray2384
June 25th, 2010, 05:53 AM
Authors of Tokio Hotel sign with Kobalt

Google Translation:
The songwriter and producer David Jost, Dave Roth and Pat Benzner, composers and producers of Tokio Hotel, have the independent music publishing Kobalt Music Group signed an exclusive agreement, the administration also includes Creative Services.

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Hat as well as Dave Roth and Pat Benzner signed with cobalt: David Jost

"We are pleased to welcome you very much, David, Dave and Pat in our tribe from renowned author song scribes and producers," said Willard Ahdritz, founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Group. "Cobalt offers not only a unique central administration platform, but also the services of a global operating teams of experienced industry professionals."

And Matthias Kind, managing director of Kobalt Music Group Germany, adds: "It was a hard-fought deal, and we are glad Dave and Pat convinced of our offer to have David. Our creative team works worldwide hard to make their songs international market. We look forward to a long and successful collaboration. "

Kobalt Music presents the three song writers, their creative services, and makes the marketing of synch right and the rights for the existing administration Tokio Hotel catalog and all of their new work world outside Germany.

In the last seven years, Jost, Roth and Benzner had concentrated almost exclusively on Tokio Hotel. She also wrote songs, but also for the "American Idol" artist Adam Lambert, Kerli, Sarah Brightman and Keri Hilson, whose platinum hit "I Like go on her account. Moreover, they composed music for TV campaigns for BMW, Mercedes and Motorola, did remixes for Mötley Crüe, Jewel, Laura Pausini, U.S. star Faith Hill, and wrote songs for movie soundtracks such as the film "Alice in Wonderland" by Tim Burton.

SOURCE (http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/autoren-von-tokio-hotel-unterschreiben-bei-kobalt/291599)

KOBALT MUSIC GROUP (http://www.kobaltmusic.com/index.php)

The Kobalt Model - A Modern Approach To Publishing Sets New Industry Standards

Collection of royalties has traditionally been time-consuming and costly. Usually writers receive royalties 9-24 months after they are earned and pay a significant amount of up to 50% of gross royalties in payments to intermediaries including collection societies. In addition, the traditionally opaque and complex reporting have made it near impossible for the writers to know if the collected royalties are correct or comprehensive. Kobalt has developed centralised, automated and efficient administration services supported by a scalable, proprietary, dedicated system using the latest technology. As a result of Kobalt's innovative approach, Kobalt offers a reduction in royalty collection time of up to 50%, more effective collection as well as substantially improved transparency.

Additionally, when copyright holders and songwriters need money, music publishers usually offer them monetary advances contingent upon the copyright holder giving up part ownership in their works. However Kobalt provides the ability for clients to inexpensively obtain pipeline advances as needed and flexible rates without having to give up rights or secure long term deals. When this is combined with personalised creative/A&R, and synchronisation services for the client from our responsive, experienced global teams, Kobalt is clearly the best choice for managing your copyrights.


*Note: Tokio Hotel has not signed a contract with a new label.*

midnight_epiphany
June 25th, 2010, 10:25 AM
Very interesting. I didn't realize the royalty system was so complex. The first paragraph was a little hard for me to understand. Gotta love google. So what does this mean for Tokio Hotel?

ray_ray2384
June 25th, 2010, 10:36 AM
nothing really.

kairoru
June 25th, 2010, 10:50 AM
This confused me to death on Billboard's site 0.0 lol. So basically Jost, Roth, and Benzner are taking their royalty collection agency to another place? That's what I got out of all that hooba-hoobla xD

ray_ray2384
June 25th, 2010, 11:12 AM
they've signed with an publishing company who will handle all of the royalties earned from the songs they've written; including TH's entire song catalogue.

kairoru
June 25th, 2010, 11:37 AM
huh... All this talk of royalty always makes my head spin though! haha try reading the book called 'Writer's Market' and that'll throw you away. It's this huge book all about the publishing world (I wanna publish a novel before I graduate high school :p ) and I read the royalty part... reread it... read it again... and then flipped to the next part :D

BlueBiscuit
June 25th, 2010, 11:41 AM
TH need to buy their royalties...

ray_ray2384
June 25th, 2010, 12:04 PM
Tokio Hotel doesn't own the songs. It's Jost, Roth and Bezner who have complete rights to TH's songs.

kairoru
June 25th, 2010, 12:06 PM
I thought the royalties would go to the writer... So since Bill writes the songs (with help on some if you look in the booklets. Some also say Jost) wouldn't he get royalties for the songwriting? And the others as well since they came up with the guitar, bass, and drum part? I don't know royalties, again, confuse me to death!

Ayame
June 25th, 2010, 12:08 PM
I highly doubt it's just their royalties.
I'm pretty sure TH's royalties are included.

kairoru
June 25th, 2010, 12:12 PM
If only they would dumb this down a little bit to a simple science that says 1 + 2 = Who get's what (because I hate letters in math :p!) then I could decipher this! lol

ray_ray2384
June 25th, 2010, 12:18 PM
I don't think Bill is the main contributor to any of the songs he's sung.

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I'm quoting Salty's comment here because it makes a lot of sense to me and explains this entire issue much better than I ever can. I'm still trying to understand it myself.


SaltyWench @TH_APEX
WHOA jumping to conclusions. First of all, this has nothing to do with the band. The producers have been a team since before TH were even looked at by Peter Hoffman. They own the catalog of TH songs because they wrote them. I know it SAYS Bill helped write the songs, but the facts are The producers are the only people with any rights to the songs. Bill might get a few pennies on each song, but he has no say at all over what song is used where and when or gets recorded by who. He has no rights, which is borne out by the fact that he wasn't included with the other producers and the catalog was.
Peter Hoffman went on a hunt for the next child band because he knows the TH window as a teeny star money train was over. The empty concert tour shows he was right. He's been auditioning kids to be his new thing for months. All producers do that, I'm amazed he waited so long before starting. It does not mean he's through with TH.

Ayame
June 25th, 2010, 12:37 PM
LMFAO, actually - he is.
Seeing how most songs written on the first and second records were written by him and the boys. :roll: I highly doubt it would change now.

Amdee
June 25th, 2010, 05:26 PM
Too complicated to my brain and foremost: nothing I can do about it. That industry is just too weird for me... Ugh... :roll: :laugh:

Nereida
June 25th, 2010, 05:32 PM
I hope that they have a greater part in their last album, cause i really like it:lol: What a turn off it would be if i knew some random dude wrote it.lol:s
But the guys emphasised they had a larger part in this album, so i believe them.
And for what its worth-i think Bill wrote Monsoon himself.He has said it too many times already.And that song rocks.

Amdee
June 25th, 2010, 05:46 PM
And I think twins bought themselves to the business table. They put their own money into it, Universal (or whoever) welcomed the extra money with a happy handshake, twins got a part of doing things instead of taking just orders from others -> everyone is happy?

Only thing I foind a bit sad is that even if TH performs the music, they have to BUY their way top affect on it, but since they are co-producers, I understand that they still get their word to say on TH-catalogue? Esp. with Humanoid.

Oh, I don't know...

emeXu
June 26th, 2010, 02:49 PM
i didn't rly understand what's going on but i do understand that the producer or w/ever doesn't have future plans with TH. at least not big plans.
well, i'm cool as long as this doesn't hurt TH. since Bill & Tom co-produced Humanoid, they might do a little bit more on the next record or are already doing somethings. idk.
i'm confused. lol.