[cma-l] Free Community Radio Seminar

[Tony Bailey]

Sorry, I haven't saved this thread, assuming it's only about PRS, they 
only deal with composers and publishers (plus MCPS, mechanical, i.e. 
right to record composers e.g. recordings of musical performances).

PPL are the recording companies (who may or may not pay performers).

We tried arguing about RSL fees many years ago, they weren't interested 
for obvious reasons.  I believe that the ILR companies went to the High 
Court to obtain a settlement.

Unless you have bottomless pockets litigation is not an option, however, 
they are vulnerable as monopolies and you could point out that they have 
a responsibility to comply with standards set by the relevant body which 
I think now may be the Competition Commission (if they haven't been 
shredded by the cuts!).

Tony Bailey

Ian Hickling wrote:
>    
> 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
> **Partner
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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.
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> 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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