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[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:22 PM 5/02/2010, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>As the owner & manager of my fm broadcast radio station, i pay sizable
>annual fees to APRA-AMCOS <http://www.apra-amcos.com.au> for my license.
>
>"The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) collects and
>distributes licence fees for the public performance and communication of
>our members' musical works. The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners
>Society (AMCOS) collects and distributes mechanical royalties for the
>reproduction of our members' musical works."
>
>whereby, "Works .. means all musical works, including any words normally
>associated with those works by the copyright owner for Australia, the
>right of public performance of which is vested in APRA for Australia and
>New Zealand."

What he said. The royalties don't go to CAL. They go to the music 
societies who dish out percentages to various people. Note also, it's 
not the musicians themselves who pay it. But in live venues, I don't 
now if it's taken out of some sort of fee to the performers or not.

Jan



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