[cma-l] Joint PRS/PPL licences

[Ian Hickling]

That's surprising - they were always traditionally at daggers drawn.But it still doesn't answer two points:
1 - Exactly where in Law dies it require broadcasters to pay these two private organisations a fee that they determine between them?
2 - If it is a firm legal requirement - why doesn't Ofcom include it as an integral part of the mandatory licence fee structure?
My feeling is that the answer to the second point determines the first point.
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From: tlr at gairloch.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:54:39 +0100
Subject: [cma-l] Joint PRS/PPL licences

We received an interesting letter today from PPL giving notice of termination of our current licence on 31 Dec because they are proposing to come up with a joint PPL/PRS licence for community radio from that date. This should make things easier for everyone and reduce the admin burden, which is good news, and I guess will be generally welcomed. The letter says PPL and PRS will be consulting with the sector over the plan - I would urge CMA and anyone else able to respond to press for the new minimum fee to be no more than the present minimum fee of either one of the two bodies. It seems to me if the new system will reduce their admin costs, there should be no need for more than the equivalent of one current minimum fee to cover that, especially as no doubt nowadays more of the admin is done at low cost by IT than it used to be, rather than an army of clerks. Alex


	
        
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