RADIO ROYALTIES
REGARDED AS EXCESSIVE IN AUSTRALIA POSTMASTER-GENERAL TAKING ACTION. PAYMENTS MUCH GREATER THAN IN CANADA. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Postmaster-General, Mr A. Cameron refuses to renew an agreement between the Performing Rights Association and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, on the ground of alleged excessive royalties collected by the Performing Rights Association. He says the association unprecedently levies three forms of royalties for copyright recorded music, covering listeners’ licences, national broadcasting stations and music played by commercial stations, hotels and cafes, resulting in approximate collections in Australia of £60,000 a year, compared with collections in Canada, where the numbers of stations and radio licences are slightly in excess of those in Australia, of £23,000. Mr Cameron regards the matter as one for Government intervention and is acting accordingly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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137RADIO ROYALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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