11 March 2024 Comment from Peter Saxon - In her keynote address at BIGSOUND 2023 last September, as reported in The Music, the CEO of the Australian Recording Industry...
23 January 2024 There’s a story about Coldplay, at the height of their fame, sending a song to David Bowie in the hope of a collaboration. Bowie turned...
12 December 2023 It was poignant on reflection that I was waiting for Missy Higgins concert ticket presales to open when I heard that Richard Kingsmill was leaving...
21 November 2023 Let’s imagine that you grow and supply bananas. There are major international supermarket chains and local shops.
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...
20 March 2020 The PPCA Board has moved to introduce an emergency special policy to provide one off advances ranging from $250 to $10,000 for PPCA Registered Artists suffering...
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...
24 July 2016 Comment from Peter Saxon The long running dispute between the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) and Commercial Radio Australia has finally concluded with...
19 July 2016 The legal battle between the radio industry and the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) over payments for online broadcast of music has been raging...
2 May 2016 For several years now, the commercial radio industry with its peak body Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has been battling the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) over...
21 October 2015 Stations in some key regional markets have turned their audio streams back on this week. Larger markets such as Townsville, Sunshine Coast, Wollongong, Dubbo and...
26 August 2015 The CBAA has finalised a new PPCA music licensing agreement for CBAA members. In addition to existing rights to broadcast sound recordings, the new licence...
15 August 2014 A petition against increased fees being charged for radio station online streaming has gone live and is quickly gaining traction. The petition states: "For the...
7 March 2014 Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull met with media company managers today, beginning a series of talks to discuss industry issues, particularly ownership regulation, which could potentially...
5 March 2014 Steve Owens lives in Newcastle and works 100 metres from the KO and NX FM studios in Charlestown. But he can’t get good reception, so...
16 February 2014 Opinion from Peter Saxon To PPCA boss Dan Rosen’s credit he was quick to accept radioinfo’s request for an interview, despite the risk that like...
13 February 2014 Grant Broadcasting's executive director Grant Cameron, has told Radio National the extra cost to his company would be more than $1 million a year for...
12 February 2014 The ongoing and increasingly bitter dispute between the PPCA and the Radio industry is back in the Copyright Tribunal today. As reported previously on radioinfo,...
10 February 2014 A story published in today’s Australian Financial Review to bring readers up to speed with the PPCA copyright dispute, due at the Copyright Tribunal this...
6 February 2014 Southern Cross Austereo has found a loophole in the PPCA streaming dispute. With such a large network, SCA has the ability to leverage its metro streams...
6 February 2014 There has been a lot of discussion on the PPCA streaming dispute, but the ABC has been quiet on the subject… until now. radioinfo asked ABC...
4 February 2014 The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) has distanced itself from the decision by commercial radio operators to cease streaming their simulcasts of local radio...
3 February 2014 As reported previously on radioinfo, regional radio across Australia has pulled the pin on streaming their local programming through their websites. This is in response...
3 February 2014 Opinion from Peter Saxon. Open and fair-minded person that I am, I was prepared to carefully consider the PPCA’s written response to regional radio’s shutdown of...
2 February 2014 The PPCA has not taken kindly to regional stations pulling the plug on streaming, rejecting CRA’s claim that a simulcast licence results in ‘double dipping.’...
31 January 2014 Australia’s regional radio stations pulled the plug on their live internet streams at midnight, due to a court ruling that would force them to pay...
15 December 2013 The CRA Christmas drinks is usually a convivial affair. This one, no exception The CEOs, senior management and other stakeholders deemed to be important enough...
