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<BR>Shouldn't we step back for a moment and look at the situation objectively?<BR>If you buy a Ford, you don't pay Ford every time you drive it.<BR>
If you visit a museum, you don't pay the van Dyck Foundation every time you look at one of his paintings.<BR>
When you read a Jeffrey Archer novel you don't have to pay him for the privilege each time.<BR>
I don't get a payment for the amount of use one of my transmitters has when it's hired out.<BR>
So why should Elton John for instance get paid every time you play one of his tracks?<BR>
And the middle-men rake off a profit for collecting it?<BR>
No - sorry - the whole thing stinks.<BR>
I'm all for musicians and artists to get a fair payment for what they do - but if they're not there and they're doing nothing to earn - why do they think we should pay them?<BR>
PRS for Music and PPL are not transparent and I really don't believe they are in it for anything more than their own profit.<BR>
Added to that, the way they randomly and unilaterally charge has no logic and seriously penalises the small user.<BR>
If we are to pay, let it be a Statutory Licence Fee to Ofcom and let it be directly proportional to the number of listener music hours that each of us provides.<BR>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(38,38,38)">Ian Hickling<BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN>Partner<BR>transplan UK<BR></SPAN></B></P><BR>
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> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:33:54 +0100<BR>> From: ed@resonancefm.com<BR>> To: cma-l@commedia.org.uk<BR>> Subject: [cma-l] PRS fees<BR>> <BR>> Dear all,<BR>> The PRS suggests community stations "choose up to three commercial<BR>> radio stations that your playlist is similar to" with a view to them<BR>> allocating money to composers featured on said stations. I wonder<BR>> where this idea orginated. Might it not be apposite that the fees<BR>> community stations pay to the PRS are allocated to the PRS for Music<BR>> Foundation, which as a charity and an innovative supporter of new<BR>> music shares many of the aims and aspirations of community media<BR>> platforms.<BR>> None of the commercial stations play anything like the music that<BR>> Resonance plays. Nor do we have "playlists". We favour music not<BR>> represented by any other stations in the UK. It is important to us<BR>> that PRS fees are going to the correct kind of songwriters and<BR>> composers. I see no relevance or point in sharing them among the kind<BR>> of nostalgic MOR artistes and the ragbag purveyors of reactionary<BR>> claptrap generally favoured by UK commercial stations.<BR>> I suspect this will elicit a groan among the people at PRS, who like<BR>> everyone else surely want an easy life, but wonder what others in CMA<BR>> think.<BR>> Yours<BR>> Ed<BR>> -- <BR>> Nominee, Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 "Station Programmer of the Year"<BR>> Runner-up, PRSF New Music Award 2008<BR>> As featured in the Independent on Sunday's Happy List<BR>> Ed Baxter<BR>> programming director<BR>> Resonance104.4fm - winner of the Radio Academy’s Nations and Regions<BR>> Award for London 2009 and 2010<BR>> 144 Borough High Street<BR>> London SE1 1LB<BR>> 020 7407 1210<BR>> <BR>> Resonance104.4fm is not-for-profit (UK registered charity no. 290236)<BR>> and is funded entirely by grants and voluntary donations. The Guardian<BR>> calls it “the best radio station in London”; the Village Voice, “the<BR>> best radio station in the world”. You can support the station’s<BR>> continued growth with a secure donation via www.resonancefm.com<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Reply - cma-l@commedia.org.uk<BR>> <BR>> The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk<BR>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media<BR>> http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation<BR>> Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> <BR>> Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> <BR>> To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<BR>> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l<BR></DIV> </div></body>
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