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APRA NARROWcast COMPLIMENTARY Licence

Thank you for requesting a Broadcasting Licence from APRA.

As you may be aware APRA is a non-profit association of songwriters, composers and music publishers who, as members, have assigned to APRA the broadcasting, public performance and diffusion rights in their works, so that a central single authority may administer these rights for the mutual benefit of both music creators and music users. APRA’s primary task is to license these rights to members of the public.

The law of copyright has always sought to strike a balance between two policy objectives, namely, the encouragement of creativity and the protection of access to the products of that creativity. APRA provides a mechanism which serves the public interest while protecting the interests of, and consequently the incentives for, creators of music.

APRA owns and controls, in respect of almost all current musical works wherever originally written or published in the world, the right to transmit the works via a broadcasting service. APRA controls this right by means of direct assignments from composers and publishers in Australia and New Zealand (in respect of works of Australian and New Zealand origin) and by means of blanket assignments from its affiliated societies in other countries of the world (in the case of music of ‘foreign’ origin).

The licence fees which APRA collects from its licensees are distributed, after deduction of administration costs, to its members and to affiliated societies overseas, in accordance with its distribution rules and music usage data received from radio and television stations, concert promoters, members and many other types of users of copyright music.

I understand your service will be self-funding, equipment used for the broadcast is to be donated and the service will not be transmitting any paid advertisements or sponsorship announcements.

On this basis I am pleased to confirm APRA’s grant to your organisation of a complimentary radio broadcasting licence for the period:

1 st July 2009 – 30 th June 2010

This grant authorises the broadcasting of APRA's controlled works during the above mentioned transmission, subject to appropriate broadcast acknowledgments (in the way of acknowledgement that the music is being broadcast courtesy of Australasian Performing Rights Association)

You should be aware that this grant does not extend to authorise the broadcasting of certain musical works, please refer to Attachment A. These exemptions are standard for all APRA’s blanket radio licences.

Please note that if the circumstances of your radio service changes from that described overleaf you should contact APRA forthwith as the service may no longer be entitled to a complimentary licence from APRA.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you every success with your broadcast.

Yours sincerely

Attachment A

The Special Event Licence offered by APRA does not extend to or authorise:

1. Dramatico-Musical Works

a) the broadcasting in their entirety in any manner whatever of Dramatico-Musical Works;

b) the broadcasting of excerpts from any Dramatico-Musical Works if APRA has notified the Licensee in writing that such excerpts are prohibited from broadcast; excerpts other than those described may be broadcast by the Licensee but subject to the general limitation that the Licensee may not broadcast without written permission more than two excerpts from such work in any period of three (3) consecutive hours of broadcasting;

c) the broadcasting of oratorios or major choral works exceeding twenty (20) minutes' duration in their entirety or such excerpts if the duration of any such excerpts exceeds twenty (20) minutes; and

d) the broadcasting of copyright Sound Recordings, the making of an adaptation of any musical, literary or dramatic work, or the giving of a public performance by means of the reception of a broadcast.

2. Parody

2.1. the broadcasting of a parody which denigrates a musical work or is such as to cause a reasonable person to be misled as to a view or association held by the writer of the work.

NB: "Dramatico Musical Work" means an opera, operetta, musical play, revue or pantomime which consists of words and music written expressly therefor;

Extract from APRA Narrowcast Radio Licence Agreement

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