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Separate distribution 'pools' are created at the APRA Board's discretion for particular performance types where the licence fees collected are significant enough to warrant a specific analysis and analysis can be achieved in a cost effective manner.
The licence fees collected, less administration costs, are allocated specifically to the owners of those works which have been performed in each category.
Music On Hold
Our new Music on Hold (MoH) scheme hit the market in March 2001 in line with the Digital Agenda Amendments to the Copyright Act. Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about Music on Hold.
Concerts
Concerts fall into two main categories:
1. ABC and Symphony Australia concerts (and their New Zealand equivalents) receive a 100% analysis from concert returns provided by the relevant bodies.
2. Promoter concerts (in the main large and almost always contemporary music concerts by local and international artists) also receive a 100% analysis based on returns provided by the concert promoters, in conjunction with "set lists" recorded by an APRA staff member who attends the concert/s personally.
Cinema
The Motion Picture Distributors' Association of Australia provides APRA with the titles of films, including independent releases, exhibited during each six month distribution period, together with the percentage of national box-office for each film. Details of the music contained in each film are obtained from each film's music cue-sheet.
Airlines
APRA analyses QANTAS in flight audio and video programming as well as Virgin Blue's in-flight audio programming. QANTAS logs are provided electronically.
Ambient Music
Distribution payments are based on several sources of information, including selected ambient radio programmes, Qantas in-flight ambient music reports and information provided to APRA by ambient music writers and publishers.
Discos and Dance Clubs
The distribution of royalties in respect of dance music (as opposed to retro/commercial music) played in discos and dance clubs is based on ARIA's Club Chart. This data is provided to APRA in much greater depth than the published top-20, to provide APRA with a more comprehensive basis for distribution.
The distribution to retro and commercial music played in discos and dance clubs is made on the basis of radio reports from selected stations, which APRA's experts have determined most closely resemble the music played in such establishments.
Aerobic and Fitness Classes
APRA receives details of the music played in aerobic and fitness classes from the largest suppliers of the specially recorded tapes used in these venues.
Church Performances
Performances of musical works authorised by churches, but taking place outside of Divine Services, are licensed by APRA and included in APRA's distributions. The licence fees paid to APRA by churches are distributed on the basis of data provided to APRA by CCL (Christian Copyright Licensing) Australia.
Miscellaneous Live Performances
APRA members and affiliated foreign societies provide details of live performances in venues such as clubs, pubs and hotels from which it would be both impractical and uneconomical to receive and analyse licensees' logs. These Live Performance Returns share in a discrete revenue pool. Royalties from this source are distributed annually.
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