[cma-l] Royalty payments

[Ian Hickling]

Financial Segregation

With regard to the payment or otherwise of Royalties, I think it's vital 
that NFPs, CLBGs and Charities must be treated the same way as each other.

It's ridiculous to make such a distinction when the aims and effective 
monetary trading policies are the same.

Ian Hickling
Partner
transplan UK

 > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:43 +0000
 > From: hartland.karl at 209radio.co.uk
 > To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
 > Subject: Re: [cma-l] Royalty payments
 >
 > I'm just going to chuck about some random thoughts on this....
 >
 > I understand the difficulties and burdens on reporting, especially
 > down to the level of ISRC.
 >
 > However, monitoring and reporting will only increase for Community
 > Media projects in general as tendering, commissioning and procurement
 > become the norm, forced upon us by Compacts and what I like to call
 > the 'silent VCS/LSC two prong revolution'. If you know not of what I
 > speak then you will do soon if you deliver Local Authority objectives
 > or pull down Learning and Skills Council monies from any
 > angle....those who don't are already lagging behind, I fear and will
 > have to catch up very quickly over the next couple of years..
 >
 > Back to music - as Trevor says, quite rightly, smaller broadcasters
 > and CM in general are already making their power known to musicians
 > and 'labels' alike.
 >
 > So, as this growth continues, is there wisdom in allowing valuable
 > data to evaporate away? Wouldn't it be great to be able to do some
 > kind of meta-study that proves the Arctic Monkeys were pulled down
 > from MySpace into CR station new music programmes and podcasts, who
 > then reached such a mass that R1 couldn't ignore it?
 >
 > Having done a fair bit of reporting for the royalty guys now, I've
 > actually taken unexpected pleasure in letting them know who it is we
 > have played. Whether or not those registered musicians will ever see a
 > penny is an elephant that PPL/PRS etc must acknowledge, address and
 > make transparent to all but I must admit that I spent no time
 > whatsoever getting ISRC numbers if they were not available from our
 > programme's music reporting sheets, which they aren't more often than
 > not.
 >
 > The idea of saying 'we are like 6 Music' turned my stomach - not that
 > 6 isn't OK, it just seems very weak to me to make that comparison and
 > you know that someone whose agent can bend ears at PPL has been paid
 > instead of the local guy you actually played who has a full-time job
 > and cannot chase such stuff.
 >
 > However, I am torn on the issue of payment. Why should charities be
 > exempt but CR charities (like us) and those who aren't but are
 > constituted as NFP have to pay?
 >
 > That has been nagging me this week.....
 >
 > K
 >
 > Karl Hartland
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 > Bill Best wrote:
 > > Hi Trevor
 > >
 > > Thank you for this and the pledges of support to the CMA.
 > >
 > > As mentioned last Friday the CMA has written to Alison Seabeck MP
 > > thanking her for her contribution to the PRS debate last Wednesday
 > > and welcoming the code of conduct that has been drawn up by PRS in
 > > how they intend to communicate with small businesses and charities.
 > >
 > > We have also copied the letter to David Lammy, Minister for Higher
 > > Education & Intellectual Property and requested a meeting with both
 > > MPs to discuss with them further how this matter affects the
 > > community broadcasting sector as a whole.
 > >
 > > As a result of dialogue with the CMA, PPL no longer requires
 > > community radio stations to deliver a detailed ISRC report but
 > > stations may now describe their output in terms of other more
 > > well-known platforms,
 > > e.g. "We're 50:50 Radio1 and Radio4" or something like that.
 > >
 > > Music licensing for community broadcasters, as well as digital
 > > switchover and funding issues, is one of the key priorities of the
 > > CMA. Furthermore we will be taking feedback from you to the Digital
 > > Mentors fund meeting at DCLG tomorrow - please see my next email.
 > >
 > > Best regards
 > >
 > > Bill