[cma-l] PPL and PRSfM Joint Licence for Community Radio
Phil Edmonds
lists at philedmonds.info
Tue Jul 5 18:11:42 BST 2016
I think I've said this before on this mailing list, but will say it
again, that a small percentage of commercial revenue as a royalty
payment is perfectly fine by me.
Sure some of it will end up in the pockets of the collection societies
executives and the mainstream record companies and artists. But some
will trickle to the smaller artists, for whom the odd fifty quid PRS
cheque is a godsend.
My bugbear is with minimum payments. On the couple of percent of
commercial revenue calculation a large proportion of community radio
stations are paying more as the minimum fee than the straight percentage
calculation.
As far as I'm concerned a few percent of advertising and sponsorship
revenue as royalties is a fine basis for royalty payments. It's the same
as the Commercial Radio station pay.
Now if only there was only a way as a sector to know how much
"Advertising and Sponsorship" revenue we all make in a year and then
offer to just pay royalties on the percentage of that.
Oh let's wait a second there is that pesky Excel spreadsheet we must
send to Ofcom every year - there's a box on there which declares how
much money we've made from Advertising and Sponsorship.
If we accept that "x percent" of commercial revenue is an acceptable
royalty payment, then surely a rate of "the last sector declared to
Ofcom advertising and sponsorship figure, plus inflation" divided by
"total number of stations" would be a fair sum to charge stations?
Maybe just add on a small sum to pay someone at the CMA to spend a day
collating the figures from the couple of hundred reports into a final
figure and all's sorted.
Phil.
On 04/07/2016 13:52, Bill Best wrote:
> Alex
>
> The Community Media Association has never formally agreed to the
> licensing fees set by PPL and PRSfM and we have been very careful that
> our responses to the licensing fees should not be interpreted as agreement.
>
> Please send me the evidence you have that either PPL or PRSfM has said
> that the CMA has agreed to a particular licensing regime and I can take
> the matter up with them.
>
> When we confirm that PPL and PRSfM will be attending the Community Media
> Conference
> <http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2016/03/save-the-date-saturday-10th-september-the-community-media-conference-2016/>
> on Saturday 10th September at Birmingham City University, perhaps you
> will make the journey down and put your concerns to the respective
> representatives of the licensing agencies in person.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bill Best
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> On 1 July 2016 at 22:03, Two Lochs Radio <tlr at gairloch.co.uk
> <mailto:tlr at gairloch.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> __
>
> To be honest, it has always been PPL's consultations with CMA that
> have largely stymied our own negotiations with PPL in the past. They
> always fall back on, "your representative body has agreed this, and
> we are entitled to assume that means it is acceptable to all
> stations". or words to that effect. They always cite as further
> evidence that their terms are fair the supposed fact that 'all other
> sttaions have freely accepted the terms' which PPL maintains proves
> that the terms are fair.
>
> Alex
>
>> On 01 July 2016 at 19:00 CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk
>> <mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Members and Supporters
>>
>>
>> Most of you will now have received a letter from PPL and PRS for
>> Music (PRSfM) with regard to a Joint Licence for community radio.
>>
>>
>> There is little information that we are able to share at this
>> stage as the details of the proposed Joint Licence are still being
>> worked on by PPL and PRSfM and communications on this matter have
>> to be approved by the Legal Teams of the licensing agencies.
>> Therefore much of the text below is drawn from the Joint Licence
>> letter with some additional detail added. The Community Media
>> Association seeks your feedback on the proposed Joint Licence.
>>
>> PPL collects and distributes licence fees for the use of recorded
>> music on behalf of record companies and performers, whereas
>> PRSfM collects and distributes fees for the use of musical
>> compositions on behalf of songwriters, composers and music
>> publishers. .
>>
>> Both PPL and PRSfM have received feedback from the Community Media
>> Association and from community radio stations relating to the
>> current method of licensing music rights for inclusion within
>> Ofcom-licensed community radio broadcasts.
>>
>>
>> The licensing bodies have carefully considered the comments
>> received so far and, building upon the experience and success of
>> joint licensing between PPL and PRSfM in other sectors, and now
>> believe that it is possible to further simplify the licensing of
>> music rights for community radio stations. Accordingly, subject to
>> a successful consultation with the sector, *PPL and PRSfM intend
>> to introduce a Joint Licence for Ofcom-licensed community radio
>> stations with effect from 1 January 2017*.
>>
>> The joint licence will provide all community radio stations with a
>> simple, ‘one stop shop’ licensing solution, combining the rights
>> of both organisations in a single licence agreement.
>>
>> The joint licence will be administered by PPL, acting on its own
>> behalf and on behalf of PRSfM/. /This means stations will have one
>> point of contact for any queries regarding your licence, you will
>> make a single payment covering both sets of rights, and you will
>> need to submit Net Broadcasting Revenue information only once each
>> year, reducing the administration associated with ensuring that
>> the music you include within your broadcasts are licensed correctly.
>>
>>
>> Prior to introducing new licensing schemes, PPL and PRSfM are
>> committed to a fair, reasonable and proportionate consultation in
>> accordance with each organisation’s Code of Conduct:
>>
>>
>> * http://www.ppluk.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/PPL-Code-of-Conduct/
>> * http://www.prsformusic.com/codeofconduct/pages/default.aspx
>>
>>
>> By way of example, PRSfM has examples of other closed
>> consultations and notifications it has conducted across the
>> business, examples of which are available on the PRSfM website:
>>
>> http://www.prsformusic.com/customerconsultation
>>
>> As part of the consultation process, PPL and PRSfM will initially
>> liaise with the Community Media Association and will then send out
>> further details to the sector in due course.
>>
>>
>> To get your feedback, thoughts, and opinions about the proposed
>> Joint Licence for community radio please use the online form below
>> so that we can easily collate your responses:
>>
>>
>> http://bit.ly/PPLPRS2016
>>
>>
>> With best regards
>>
>>
>> Community Media Association
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>>
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