[cma-l] Community Radio Music Royalties

[Ray C]

Dear All
 
Just to interject on this conversation, I have to say we at Asian Star Radio pay are full PPL and PRS fees which I feel are well over priced for community radio stations in anycase I feel as we  have a huge stumbling block of a restricted audience in the first place due to the power we are permitted by Ofcom, which in turn has a knock on affect for example that music is not being heard by as many listeners anyway, so there definitely needs to be some direct and constructive dialogue with PRS for community radio projects reference fees, the amount we have had to pay this year was enormous & I feel we are treated just like a commercial radio station pushing 100 watts, so come on lets have the same power then Ofcom.
 
Ray Siddique
Asian Star Radio

--- On Thu, 28/10/10, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com>
Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio Music Royalties
To: javed at awazfm.co.uk, "Andrew Wass" <andrew.wass at talk21.com>, cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Cc: "cma-l" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, 28 October, 2010, 13:39




 
I aplogise if my posting appeared to cast a slur on what we conveniently refer to as "Asian" broadcasters.
I was speaking from experience with many RSL groups who maintain that as all the music they use is imported, they are not liable for any UK Copyright fees.




 
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Royalties
> To: andrew.wass at talk21.com; cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk; transplanfm at hotmail.com
> CC: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> From: javed at awazfm.co.uk
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:19:17 +0000
> 
> 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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