<div dir="auto">Do we not believe that artists should receive due renumeration for their work? Would we expect all our staff to work for little or nothing?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also what about all the other not for profit activities, fates, events and isn't Glastonbury technically not for profit?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I like the idealism and if we could get some big name artists to agree or propose it.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 30, 2017 5:39 PM, "Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio" <<a href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">tlr@gairloch.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_3633386419382601492WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ha, I’ll collect the award later Nick.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">But seriously, it does show that PPL has plenty of scope to propose to its members that they could introduce a social benefit licence scheme for very little cost by offering a low cost flat-fee (say £200) licence to stations constituted to operate not-for-profit and for social gain.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">A back of the envelope calculation suggests this might drop their revenue from £212.1m to £211.8m (ie by about 0.15%).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">So it would make the tiniest difference to their bottom line, while making a big difference to many hard-pressed community operations, while PPL would get the publicity kudos of showing what excellent public benefit-minded souls they are, and also support stations that tend to give more exposure to their less well-known and less well-heeled members.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Must go now – I want to try and get a photo of the pig that just passed my window.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.<wbr>commedia.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.<wbr>commedia.org.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Canalside Community Radio Ltd<br><b>Sent:</b> 30 May 2017 15:39<div class="quoted-text"><br><b>To:</b> 'The Community Media Association Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><wbr>><br></div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cma-l] News release from PPL<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div class="quoted-text"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">If you going for the wind-up-merchant of the year award 2017 I think you’ve just won it LOL :<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222a35">Nick</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222a35"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222a35"><img width="242" height="149" id="m_3633386419382601492Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2D966.F3ADF040" alt="webmainlogo"></span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222a35"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222a35"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div id="m_3633386419382601492DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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