[cma-l] PPL / PRS for Music mini consultation

[Alan Coote]

We’ve run a couple of interviews with PRS on Let’s Talk Business. 1000’s of small businesses who have the radio on also pay for music which PRS has already charged the radio station. They don’t think this is fair.

Here’s the latest interview http://bit.ly/1PPnORW

Kind Regards

Alan

 

Alan Coote

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Date:  Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 12:44
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Subject:  Re: [cma-l] PPL / PRS for Music mini consultation

    
 
Don't take this as an endorsement but so far as I am aware:
 
 Anything in the "public domain" has no rights attached to it.
 Artist performance (as distinct from performance of the work) wasn't a legal right. 
 I think online payments are proportional to users.
 The law is civil, anyone can demand any fee they chose.
 Distribution is a matter for the representative organisation.
 This is also a matter for the organisation and their members.
 
 Tony Bailey
 
 On 11/02/16 08:47, Ian Hickling wrote:
 
 
  
Isn't this an opportunity to go right back to basics? 

 
Why are we paying to use something that is essentially out there in the public domain?
 Why should we be paying artists to give their work exposure?
 Should it be the other way round - they pay us?
 
If we decide to pay, shouldn't we pay in proportion to the number of people that consume the product?
 
What authority do the two organisations have in Law to demand what amount to random fees?
 Where is the evidence of distribution and proportion to the alleged beneficiaries?
 As with Charities, how much of what is taken in goes to administration?
 

 
 
I'm prepared to put money on not getting a satisfactory answer to a single one of those points.
 Go on - surprise me?
 
 
 
Ian Hickling
 
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