[cma-l] Community Radio Royalties

[London Chinese Radio]

Hi Javed,

Simple solution to record labels that threaten you to get royalties....
don't play any of their music!
Best of all arrange a meeting to tell them that to their face, so you can
watch the expression on their face...!


Peter Vautier
London Chinese Radio



On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Javed Sattar <javed at awazfm.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
> Sent from my BlackBerry(R) wireless device
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