[cc-licenses] Creative Commons and Collection Society
Jamison Young
jam at jamyoung.net
Tue Jul 17 00:27:17 EDT 2007
In Australia APRA have a half and full membership. According to APRA
3000 artists apply for membership each year. About 500 of these
application might have something to do with a professional publisher /
manager/ label. These 2500 artists are going to be lucky to earn on
average 5 dollars through the collecting system in the next 5 years
( that is a guess). The artists (not with publisher /manager/ label)
that would collect the most in this time would most likely be the
artists that are performing original works combined with covers of
popular material. These artists would most likely make more money for
the publishers of that material than they would for themselves.
Artists that do create only original works and do not do any live
performance are going to find it hard to ever become full members of
APRA. If they do ever collect a royalty they will most likely pay
more for the publicity to that publishing system than they get back.
Its possible to get some radio play through the community radio
networks in Australia. Yet this airplay means that you get very
little royalty back as the license fees to APRA are small and for the
most these stations still play music owned by publishers/labels. The
commercial networks generally don't play any self published materials
as the cost for well published material is the same as materials not
published at all. The people that benefit the most from these
artists are the people that master and mix their recordings as well
as online opportunities that the artists has to pay for. APRA
recommend that the artists seek legal advice prior to using a CC
license. Is CC not best just letting artists know that they should
get some good advice prior to joining a CS ? An artist that puts any
kind of restriction or cost for use for their material (that is not
with a publisher/label/manager) seems to be making conditions worse
for that material.
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