Radio Fair Play

06 June 2023

Radio Fair Play is a campaign by PPCA to ensure artists and rights holders (usually labels) are paid fairly for the use of their music.

· Artists and rights holders aren't getting paid fairly for songs played on radio

· Profitable commercial radio stations and the ABC are protected from paying more by a legislated cap

· Get involved to help us remove the cap and negotiate better deal for you

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History

Fifty-four years ago, the Copyright Act was written

Back then, radio stations were less profitable and localised Radio argued for a cap on how much they had to pay in licensing fees - and they won

The Cap

The cap is set at 1% of gross commercial radio revenue

ABC, including Triple J, is capped at just half a cent ($0.005) per head of population, and is not indexed to CPI

Unique to Sound Recordings

No cap exists on any other type of copyright, the free market negotiates rates.

If agreements aren't reached, it goes to the Copyright Tribunal to establish a fair rate.

This happens for radio broadcast fees of sound recordings too - but that rate can never go beyond the caps.

It's unfair.

Unique to Australia

There is no similar cap anywhere else in the world

Global rates are currently between 1.5% and 4% for use of sound recordings.

Australia is out of step.

Commercial radio is highly profitable - and music is why people listen to it

Ad revenue for commercial radio grew to over $700 million last financial year

Yet they pay just $4.4 million (approx.) for the use of all sound recordings across 260 stations

ABC pays just $130k (approx.)

Last year more than 2 in 3 Australians reported regularly listening to music on the radio

Music deserves a higher value.

It is time

PPCA and others have fought for decades.

Reviews have recommended its removal and in 2006, the Government said they would abolish it. But they didn't.

With cost-of-living pressures, and industry still recovering from COVID - it ends now.

It's time to SCRAP THE CAP.

SIGN THE PETITION

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