APRA members: if you havent yet, book to go to the roadshow in your city. Before you do, print out and look CAREFULLY at the proposed changes to Live Performance Returns. In essence, APRA wants to weight LPR royalties to reflect the APRA fees paid by venues. Hence, greater royalties pool for LPR at giant venues ($10,000 licence, eg Adelaide Entertainment Centre etc) and lesser royalties pool for tiny venues ($100, your local cafe/pub). What this means to me is that those few, very very few, performing their own works at giant venues will end up with giant royalties from a big royalty pool, and those many, very very many, performing their own works at tiny venues will scrabble for the crumbs from a tiny royalty pool. So the current about $1.70/song will reduce to Spotify royalty levels for thee and me, while those already at the top will rake even more in. As a bit of Social Darwinism--only the best survive and winner takes all and there is no second--this is pretty good. As an encouragement to those of us in the poverty-struck grunt squad, its pretty bad. Dont believe me? Print out that Discussion Paper, work it out for yourselves then go to the Roadshow and kick up a fuss.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:07:40 +0000
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