[cma-l] Free Community Radio Seminar

Fri Mar 25 07:51:42 GMT 2011

I'd go a little further.
I feel that the Royalty organisations ought to be very much put on trial over their charges to Communty Radio - and RSLs for that matter.
I can't make it to the Seminar unfortunately, but the questions I'd like answered - and I've arranged to have asked by a colleague are:

1 - What is your legal basis for demanding payments?
2 - In the event of failure or refusal, what action do you take and how successful have you been?
3 - How do you justify asking for Royalties for storing and copying musical works - as opposed to the process of using them for gain?
4 - How do you justify asking for Royalties which are not proportioned to the rate of use of musical works?
5 - How do you spend every £1000 for instance that you draw in Royalties?
6 - How do you justify the rates charged to Community Radio compared with those paid by commercial broadcasters?
7 - How do you justify the rates charged to Restricted Service Licence operators compared with those paid by full-time Licensees?
8 - How do you justify the rates charged to small stations which broadcast a large proportion of unsigned as opposed to mainstream music?

I'm sure there are more that we could add.

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Ian Hickling
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From: t.buckham at futureradio.co.uk
To: phil at bcfm.org.uk; cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:40:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Fwd: Free community radio seminar

I agree - personally I’d welcome more feedback from PRS on how they distribute their funds, and what mechanisms they plan to bring in to ensure local/unsigned artists can be properly remunerated. Similar to BCFM, and others in our sector, we play a lot of unsigned music and scarcely any top-40 pop so it’d be nice to think our payments are actually going to the artists we play.

Let’s hope they’ll be forthcoming with this information – do any stations post details of the music they play online (in any form) out of interest? I’d imagine PRS would expect something like this as evidence in terms of calculating/justifying payments to unsigned acts.

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Phil Gibbons
Sent: 18 March 2011 17:08
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] Fwd: Free community radio seminar

As a station that plays a great deal of local music (many signed up with PRS), I am attending this seminar to, amongst other things, represent these artists. Why should Madonna and Jackson get all the money when we don’t play that much of them! It will be interesting to see what PRS say about this and if there is a way of changing things in the future for the better – We have to pay to play music of course, but surely for the music we actually play.

I think it’s good that the CMA are working with PRS and other agencies on things like this.

Phil

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