22 May 2025 Content by Anthony Dockrill One of the bottlenecks in any creative enterprise is copyright. If you work in radio, you've probably run into this wall...
30 April 2025 The Copyright Tribunal is currently hearing the latest dispute between the PPCA and the radio industry about how much commercial and ABC radio stations should...
9 August 2023 Senator David Pocock has introduced a private member’s bill seeking to amend the Copyright Act to remove a long standing 1% cap, which limits the...
31 January 2022 Jana Gibson has been appointed as Head of Program Delivery for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. CBAA’s CEO, Jon Bisset, says, “We are incredibly fortunate...
9 September 2019 In a joint initiative, APRA AMCOS and PPCA have launched OneMusic Australia offering joint public performance licences that will mean the end of separate licence...
5 November 2018 Copyright collecting societies may be on their way out, as a new era of digital rights management looms. Paying music rights for new audio delivery...
19 October 2018 It was a surprise to many to see CRA CEO Joan Warner on stage flanked by two music industry heavies, Dan Rosen, CEO of ARIA and Dean Ormston, Chief...
30 August 2018 Opinion from Brad Smart I don’t like the idea of government-imposed quotas of any kind …never have. To me they’re demeaning to those they’re supposed...
20 March 2018 At the music industry's BIGSOUND Conference last year concerns were raised about some stations not meeting their Australian music quota obligations. Under the Commercial...
4 October 2017 Australian singer/songwriters have seen a bumper year for royalties, with record royalty collections driven by exponential streaming growth, and royalty payments increasing by 17.7% on last year....
2 August 2014 Entries are now open for the 2014 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, the largest charity songwriting competition in the world. With thanks to Alberts and...
18 June 2014 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has reauthorised the Australasian Performing Right Association’s (APRA) arrangements for the acquisition and licensing of performing rights in music...
28 March 2012 The PPCA has lost an appeal aimed at increasing the licence fee required from commericial radio stations. The music copyright collecting agency lost its appeal...
19 February 2010 The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) has launched a constitutional case in the High Court challenging 40 year old legislation which it says “unfairly...
26 September 2007 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has re-authorised the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Limited's collective licensing arrangements for the public performance or broadcast of...
14 May 2006 As part of his copyright reforms announcment, the Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has signaled the removal of the statutory cap on licence fees paid by radio...
23 March 2005 CRA has hit back at the PPCA's submission to Parliament about the 1% cap on copyright fees saying some of the information put forward by...
21 March 2005 Australian recording artists and record companies have countered the commercial radio industry’s position on the issue of copyright price cap reform in a submission to...
20 March 2005 The Australian commercial radio industry has argued against lifting the one per cent cap on licence fees paid to sound recording copyright owners, in its...
17 March 2005 Submissions close today on a discussion paper on whether the 1% cap on licence fees, paid by radio broadcasters for playing sound recordings, should be...
3 February 2005 A discussion paper - requesting submissions on whether the 1% cap on licence fees, paid by radio broadcasters for playing sound recordings, should be repealed...
13 February 1999 The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia have been campaigning to increase Australian Music Content on radio. The PPCA are criticising Radio Stations for only playing...
