[cma-l] Free Community Radio Seminar

[Office - ccr-fm]

Alex n' all 

 

Like I said .... I am but a mere insect in these matters and you use the
phrase ''enshrined in law''               that is exactly the point I'm
making ... Some clever cloggs dropped on an idea to enshrine this nonsense
in law, make it so called legal and these cowboys can go round nailing
peoples hats on. They treat everyone the same regardless of ''the model''
and the end result is this.

 

Community Radio is different. We are not here to make money. That is not our
purpose. That in itself is actually ''enshrined in law'' .......      so
..... The goalposts have moved again, and the geese and the ganders have
waddled onto the stage ....... what's good for the goose is good for the
gander                       why are they treating us like a money making
business when clearly we are not?

 

We take enough money to provide the BROADCASTING side of the venture ......
This is what I have declared ...... all in all about 12 grand ..... Anything
else on top of that is NOT-FOR-PROFIT and is reinvested into our equipment
repairs, projects and other things which are directly not related to
broadcasting. It is none of their business.

 

I simply don't get it??

 

And if Nora or Herbert want to track down those characters by signing up to
the PPL / PRS etc then fine .... but don't come mithering us.

 

The PRS actually told me that if I don't want to use their members music
then don't use it ..... so I said        Who are your members?     They
still haven't told me !

 

I wouldn't mind, but they haven't given us the music, we've had to buy it
.... We then have to pay them to promote their product .......   my mind
boggles !

 

Sorry ... I have completely missed the point on this one I'm afraid ... I
don't get it ??????????

 

Nick

 

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From: Two Lochs Radio [mailto:tlr at gairloch.co.uk] 
Sent: 25 March 2011 12:28
To: Office - ccr-fm; 'Ian Hickling'; 'CMA-L'
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Free Community Radio Seminar

 

 

Firstly my apologies for getting PPL and PRS muddled up .... and secondly, I
think Alex has knocked me into the silver medal position regarding long
e-mails. By the time I'd got to the end of it I'd grown a beard !        LOL
good stuff though.

 

Sorry about that - it's just something that has exercised me over the years,
so it all came flowing out!!

 

 

If Fred Bloggs wants to release a cd but use 10 songs that were written by 5
x Herbert Thistlethwaite + 5 x Nora Batty                  then it is up to
Fred to pay Herbert and Nora ...... it ain't my responsibility or problem.

 

But Fred's a musician and wants to spend his time making music, notarsing
about tracking down Messrs Thistlethwaite and Batty and finding out how much
they want and how to pay them, and likewise Herbert and Nora are writers and
composers and want to spend their time doing that, rather than trying to
track down every miscreant who uses their works and extract money from them
individually. So they all end up subscribing to a company that is set up to
handle all the hassle for them.

 

Furthermore if Henry Clackett buys a Ford Mondeo and opens up a Taxi
business he's making money out of using that car that he has purchased. Does
he give Ford another 5p everytime he drives it ???

 

Probably gives them more than that when he buys all those copyrighted spare
parts needed to keep a Mondeo on the road! :)

 

Apple iPhone users give Apple a substantial kickback (via their service
provider) for every month they use the phone.

 

Different businesses have different business models. The copyright one is
perhaps the least easy one in whic to see the rationale, but it's enshrined
in law.

 

Alex

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