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Greer Donovan Manager, Licensing Services APRA|AMCOS Scot Morris Director International Relations APRA|AMCOS APR AP MAY 2008 12 Percentage of Licensing Revenue for Each Sector 50% Background Music Licences – bars, cafes, bookstores, churches, fitness centres, restaurants and live licences 30% Ticketed events – concerts, festivals, club nights etc 15% Cinemas – for the use of music in film 5% Dramatic Context – music used in plays / theatrical performances WHERE DO THE $$ COME FROM? Royalty payments to APRA members and overseas affiliates are generated from many different licence types – if a business uses music for their clientele then you are entitled to be paid for that use of your work… this is where APRA work with the business to obtain the relevant licence applicable to their music usage. Instead of you having to liaise with each business we do the work on your behalf. Every business that uses music, for example your local café, magazine shop, petrol station, clothes store, or library, is required to obtain an APRA licence. These licenses can be as little as $96 (including GST) per year for a café. Retail store’s licence fees are based on the size of the outlet (m2) and also by the device by which the music is communicated. Hospitality businesses in most instances will have a background music licence and perhaps a live music licence for live performances at their venue. The live music licence fees make up the live performance return pool. To collect on this money you must do your Live Performance Returns – we don’t know where and what you’ve played unless you tell us. Fitness Centres require APRA licenses for background music in their centre and if applicable a fitness class licence for the music used in aerobics and fitness classes. All concerts, events and festivals are required to have an APRA licence. For ticketed events the licence fee is based on the gross sums paid for admission. The licence fee is distributed to the composers of the works performed – this is why we ask you to submit setlists. Even if there isn’t a ticket charge the Promoter is still required to have an APRA licence and this licence fee is based on gross sums paid to the performers. So, the next time you are in your favourite shop or café, look out for their APRA sticker (pictured here) or ask the proprietor if they have their APRA licence up to date – if they have: thank them! INTERNATIONAL NOTES TOURED OVERSEAS? LET US KNOW It’s really important that you let APRA know about your overseas tours. You are probably aware that you can do this quickly and easily using our online Overseas Live Performance Return within the Member Forms section of www.apra.co.nz. The rules regarding what information is submitted and the rules for analysis for distribution purposes differ from country to country; and may change from time to time. For example, if you are touring in Ireland, you will need to submit a representative set list covering 16 gigs in the country. For the UK, you must ensure you include the postcode of the venues in the UK (including Northern Ireland). In the US, performing rights organisations will usually only distribute on the top 200 grossing tours (according to Pollstar magazine) in that country. Please note it may be possible to make a claim through the ASCAP international awards scheme for your US tour in certain circumstances. The ASCAP award application forms are also available within the Member Forms section of www.apra.co.nz. In many developing countries and in certain regions such as Asia, copyright law and practice may not yet be well established. We monitor the rules and processes around the world and any changes to them. So, if you have any questions about concert tours in certain countries please don’t hesitate to contact your member services representative before filling out the form. Please be aware that payment is according to the rules (and delays) of our sister society in the territory where the performance occurred. If you provide us with tour information, we will make the claim to the foreign society and follow it up. Be mindful that in some cases our claim may prompt the society to licence the venue or concert you have notified us of, if it was previously unlicensed. JINGLES OVERSEAS By the same token, whether or not you receive income from music used in an advertisement that is broadcast overseas, is subject to the law and rules of the society in that territory. We also monitor international practice and requirements for claims in this regard. Many territories do not distribute royalties on broadcast ads at all (especially those that don’t licence broadcasters yet!). Please contact your Member Services representative if you have questions about the use of your music in advertisements in any territory before filling in the Overseas Jingle Reporting Form available online.
Trans-Tasman Exchange The Centre for New Zealand Music and the Australian Music Centre take turns each year in facilitating a residency scheme which allows a composer from one country to work intensively with a leading professional performing group in the other. Creative New Zealand and the Australia Council respectively provide funding support for the project. The Trans-Tasman composer exchange was instituted in 2003 and New Zealander Kenneth Young, the 2007 recipient, will be the fifth composer to take up the opportunity. He is being hosted by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and will spend a total of seven weeks in 2008 working intensively with the players and artistic management. As well as writing a work for the orchestra to perform in early 2009, Ken will participate in seminars and events including the Australian Composers School and presenting a guest lecture at the Tasmanian Conservatorium. Previous Trans-Tasman composers have been Gareth Farr (NZ), James Ledger (Aus), James Gardner (NZ) and Colin Bright (Aus). NZ Landscapes on YouTube Twelve ‘Landscape Preludes’ from twelve New Zealand composers were performed together for the first time at the recent New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington. Pianist Stephen de Pledge, who commissioned and performed the works gave the composers a simple brief: they were to be for solo piano, 2-4 minutes in duration and reflect the general them of ‘Landscape’. “My only worry”, Stephen admitted, “was that they might all sound too similar, but in fact it has been fascinating to see the composers’ reactions. I don’t think you could find a more different set of pieces and yet, while they are highly individualistic, the idea of ‘Landscape’ has leant them a certain cohesiveness.” Nine of the twelve composers were present at the Festival performance and, with permission from the Arts Festival organisers, composers and Stephen himself, film students from Dunedin’s Aoraki Polytechnic recorded the concert along with interviews with the composers. The results will be published online to video-sharing website YouTube allowing people anywhere a means to see and hear the results of this fascinating creative process and an outstanding Festival event. Funding for the commissions came from Creative New Zealand, Jack Richards, Chamber Music New Zealand and the James Wallace Foundation. Pianist Stephen De Pledge congratulates nine of the twelve NZ composers involved in the Landscape Preludes performance at the NZ International Arts Festival. More on YouTube. The composers are: Ross Harris, Michael Norris, Samuel Holloway, Jenny McLeod, Dylan Lardelli, Eve de Castro-Robinson, John Psathas (obscured), Jack Body, and Gareth Farr. Really Simple Syndication for SOUNZ Following its launch in late November 2007 hundreds of people have signed up to the new SOUNZ website. It has continued to grow and develop with new works, samples, downloads and information being catalogued and added each week. The facilities and search capabilities are extending almost organically! One of the newest options to be made available are RSS feeds from the News and Music pages. Those who choose to link the RSS feeds to their browsers will automatically be sent information about the latest news updates and products as they become available. A whole new world of New Zealand music! Centre for NZ Music (trading as SOUNZ) PO Box 10042, Wellington 6143, NZ. Street address: Level 1, 39 Cambridge Terrace Phone: 64-4-801 8602, Fax: 64-4-801 8604 Email: info@sounz.org.nz www.sounz.org.nz APR AP MAY 2008 13
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