NEW ROYALTY PLAN FOR DUMMIES

OneMusic Australia is a new partnership of entities which collect royalty fees for artists, songwriters and record labels. Among its proposed changes are fees for nightclubs playing recorded music for dancing. As it stands, different bodies now collect the royalties with different rates — for example PPCA’s rate for recorded music for dancing is $1.31 per person times the capacity per night. The APRA rate is $0.86 per person multiplied by actual attendance.

The proposal is a single rate of $2.20 per person per night based on a venue’s capacity not attendance. A venue with capacity for 500 would be billed $1100 for one night.