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Other => Politics => Topic started by: Nar8iv on March 06, 2007, 04:26:45 PM
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UK's MCPS.
http://www.artslink.co.za/news_frameset.htm
In a significant development for the domestic music industry, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) has entered into an historic agreement with the UK-based Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS).
The just-concluded licensing agreement is for the administration of reproduction rights -commonly referred to as 'mechanical rights'- in musical works in South Africa. It allows SAMRO to issue licences to music users in South Africa for the reproduction of musical works in the repertoire of MCPS which forms part of an alliance with the UK's PRS (Performing Rights Society).
SAMRO has been administering performing rights in musical works for public performance, broadcast and diffusion services for over 40 years, and this is the first agreement it has signed with a rights organisation in the UK for mechanical rights. This is a new area of activity for SAMRO and follows on from the organisation's stated intent mid-2006 to enter the mechanical rights administrative terrain.
Leon van Wyk, who heads the International Affairs division at SAMRO, said the organisation was "delighted" at the inking of the agreement.
"We are delighted to have signed this agreement with the MCPS on behalf of our composer-songwriter-publisher members in this developed market.
"This augurs well for us, in view of the problems encountered historically both by our members and our affiliates in receiving their just dues from the exploitation of their musical works in the field of mechanical rights. The conclusion of this agreement provides a basis that gives SAMRO members peace of mind. We treasure our cordial business relationship with our counterparts and look forward to maintaining an excellent working relationship with MCPS in the future."
Karen Buse, Executive Director of International Affairs at the MCPS-PRS Alliance was equally as upbeat.
"MCPS is pleased to enter into this arrangement with SAMRO and we are confident this will herald a new era in mechanical rights licensing in South Africa.
"The MCPS-PRS Alliance has had a very productive relationship with SAMRO over many years and we look forward to working with them on mechanical rights issues. The MCPS repertoire is often represented in foreign territories by sub-publishers but there are still important works which will flow through this agreement."
This is the 25th mechanical rights reciprocal agreement which SAMRO has concluded since declaring its intention in mid-2006 to administer mechanical reproduction rights.
dont know what this means , or if its relevant.if its already been posted......ignore it.
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very suspect. usually when they make an effort to be vague about shit....it means someone's getting f***ed..... i dont trust SAMRO.
Last month i was chilling at my firends store...choice records in town. He was telling me this story about a copper walking into the store and proceeding to try and tax him.....for playing music.
My friend proceeded to tell him that the music he was selling in the store had nothing to do with SAMRO and that as a matter of fact the shit he was bumping was his OWN. The copper said it didnt matter and that SAMRO has a monopoly on ALL music in SA... that means...if you play music in a commercial setting, you gotta pay some kind of tax/fee to SAMRO.... EVEN IF THAT MUSIC IS SELF PRODUCED.
The only way he got out of it was proving to him that in fact he wasnt making any profit.
wtf? Can i get a confirmation? D? anyone?
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if you play music in a commercial setting, you gotta pay some kind of tax/fee to SAMRO
True, but this is usually through your license fee for a club, radio station e.t.c., that goes through ICASA who then pay SAMRO and the music owners get their royalties.
.... EVEN IF THAT MUSIC IS SELF PRODUCED.
Not true if you're not part of any royality collecting org. Your homie was being hustled.