[cma-l] Community Radio Royalties

[Javed Sattar]

Hi Ian and all,

Not one for going on the list but we at Awaz FM pay all bleeding copyright fees required. On one had ourselves and desi would rather not pay as we play music that isn't on the register of artist who will receive royalties.
However there are Asian artiste in the uk who should receive royalties but I and many other station managers going sit down and spend time trying to send back a detailed return. So I and like Desi accept this as part of life. 
I also hope the ongoing discussion CMA is having with copyright bodies will be beneficial to all CR stations.

On another side angle...there was a record company who had a database of many uk and artiste from both India and Pakistan threaten us that they no longer are part of PPL/PRS and therefore we should pay them directly. I guess we weren't the only station they targeted...we said we aint going to pay and will just remove artist from our playlist. Well they suddenly changed there view and assumed they may have had ongoing dialogue on their artist getting a bigger slice of royalties.

I prefer the one of fee and leave it at that...its up to the artist and its record company to argue with PRS/PRS for a slice rather than their percentage going to Elton John or Lady Gaga.

Javed
Awaz FM  
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:21:21 
To: Ian Hickling<transplanfm at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Royalties

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