BROADCAST RECORDS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 87, 3 December 1931, Page 2

BROADCAST RECORDS

MAKERS FORBID USE WITHOUT THEIR WRITTEN coNsent. N.Z. STATIONS AFFECTED. WELLINGTON, Saturday. Registered letters which were d-eli-vered at every broadeasting station throughout the Dominion with the Australian, mail this week carried the information that gramophone records were not to be broadcast or to be used publiely- without the written consent of the manufacturing companies who were signatories t3 Ihe letters. If records are so used, proeee hngs will be taken without further notice to secure a restraining injunctioa and the recovery of damages. The letters also state that the companies eoncerned, the manufacturers of five brands of records, will put a new label on all future records with a warning that they are not to be used for broadeasting purposes. Broadeasting authorities who were approached last evening stated that the object of the companies was to control the broadeasting of records, and it might be that the companies would forbid the broadeasting of popular "hits" within a certain time of their appearance on the market. Whether it was proposed to go further than that and impose a royalty on all records broadcast they were not prepared to state. Negotiations had already been started with the gramophone companies concerned, and in the meantime the broadeasting stations would continue to carry on as before. The records were not to be publiely used unless written permission had been obtained, according to the letters, but the companies have 110 attorney in New Zealand who can give that permission, it is stated. The gramophone companies and the radio companies of Australia are at present engaged in a battle on the subject, and whatever the result may be New Zealand will be bound by the decision.