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Also, because of that, there's no performance income on movie trailers. So every single time you sit through a trailer at the theater, the composer(s) doesn't receive a dime.
The only way trailer composers are paid is via a sync fee and because it's a such a competitive field, sync fees have plummeted in the last decade. What used to cost $100-500k can now cost $10k.
For that reason alone, I don't participate in that area of the business. I'm not going to waste hours and days creating music that could be licensed in a movie trailer for a small upfront sync fee and no performance royalties, when I can earn upfront fees a large performance royalties from TV.
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