the fees charged by the apra and rianz are not exorbitant, and even if they were, those organisations set the rules the music licensing. So you can either follow the rules by paying what they ask in order to legally operate your LPFM station, or alternatively refuse to pay, and face the consequences. Moaning about the APRA fee is not unlike complaining to your local power company about the price of electricity. Operating a LPFM station is for many a hobby, and as with most hobbies, there is invariably a cost involved. After all, whether you decide to while away your time talking into a microphone, or by shooting deer, cleaning spouting or crutching sheep, you are going to incur expenses along the way.
incidentally Ethan, as you're operating a stream of your station on your website, you ought be paying apra an additional $600 + GST a year for this privilege.
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Tony Katavich
THE MULCHER LTD
PO Box 51
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----- Original Message -----From: Kead@...To: LPFM_Radio@...Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:52 PMSubject: Re: [LPFM] APRA/RIANZ (PPNZ)I agree. We dont make any money out of this, we are promoting other peoples music. Apra & Rainz is about $350 together each year. This is alot of money, I agree APRA need to rethink there pricing
Aparantly they bill in september, they have time to change it.
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> No Doubt many of you might have been contacted by the licensing
> authorities. APRA are doing a major push at present with
> Bars/Restaurants and now LPFM.
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> While I am happy to pay $100 to RIANZ (PPNZ) and that seems
> fair....not that we run commercials so it's just a cost! Just got a
> contract from APRA and they want $200 PA. This is double what RIANZ
> charge and APRA normally charge bars/restaurants less than this and
> are normally far less than RIANZ.
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> I was e-mailed by Emma. Dunno what you guys think but I have told them
> to rethink the pricing as I am not prepared to pay this much. While I
> can't imagine you want to proactively e-mail....cos you'll end up with
> a bill like mine! I think it's worthwhile going back to them with a
> similar response if you get the message.
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