[cma-l] PRS fees

[Julian Mellor]

Fully agree with that.  We ended up tagging ourselves to Radio 2 - but  
it was a painful choice and really just the best of bad options.  It's  
better than the alternative of logging every track, but the idea of  
paying to the foundation sounds ideal.

Julian

PS  The thing I really hate is the quarterly returns for PRS/PPL -  
we're so far below the threshold it's hardly worth measuring, but  
every three months they want the paperwork filled in (which reminds  
me). Grrrrr.


On 23 Sep 2011, at 11:33, Ed Baxter wrote:

> Dear all,
> The PRS suggests community stations "choose up to three commercial
> radio stations that your playlist is similar to" with a view to them
> allocating money to composers featured on said stations. I wonder
> where this idea orginated. Might it not be apposite that the fees
> community stations pay to the PRS are allocated to the PRS for Music
> Foundation, which as a charity and an innovative supporter of new
> music shares many of the aims and aspirations of community media
> platforms.
> None of the commercial stations play anything like the music that
> Resonance plays. Nor do we have "playlists". We favour music not
> represented by any other stations in the UK. It is important to us
> that PRS fees are going to the correct kind of songwriters and
> composers. I see no relevance or point in sharing them among the kind
> of nostalgic MOR artistes and the ragbag purveyors of reactionary
> claptrap generally favoured by UK commercial stations.
> I suspect this will elicit a groan among the people at PRS, who like
> everyone else surely want an easy life, but wonder what others in CMA
> think.
> Yours
> Ed
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> Runner-up, PRSF New Music Award 2008
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> Ed Baxter
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