BOXING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 139, 15 June 1933, Page 11

BOXING

U •'." ::. SYDNEY, June 14. j Bob Thornton, list 21b, defeated the New Zealandcr, Fred Parker, list Gib, 'at the Leichhardt Stadium tonight. Tho contest, was stopped in tho ninth' round. / . ' - ""

the proceeds arc devoted to those institutions, or for maintaining tho place whero -the performance is held. SOME CLAIMS UNREASONABLE. The report goes on to point out that legislation should provide for a determination 'as to whether 'a performing fee could or could not bo lawfully claimed by a manufacturer for tlie use of a record in public. The Commission suggested for the consideration of Parliament that the law should be made clear; oil .this point, and that, in its opinion, tho performing right now claimed by some- record manufacturers was unreasonable, and if in law it existed it Bhould bo abolished. Tho Commission recommended that consideration should be given to the question .whether tho Commonwealth's delegate to tho Brussels International Convention in 1935 should not.bo instructed to press upon" tho convention the claims'and interests of the public in performing musical works in public and the advisability of regulating and controlling such Activities of such monopolies as tho Australian Performing Eights Association and similar societies. It was also to be suggested that the international convention be urged to recognise tho power* of Parliament in each country of1"tho union to regulate and control societies such as these if their activities be detrimental to the public. THREATS TO USERS. - Complaints had been made, and soeraed to be justified, said tho report, that. in many instances the A.P.B.A. had unfairly threatened users in public with litigation for alleged infringement of its. rights, thereby forcing tho users ,to pay fees rather." than incur the expense of contesting claims made upon them. From tho association's bal-ance-sheets, it was ascertained that fees collected from users in-public -other than broadcasting stations .totalled £ 73,551 from 1926 to 1931 inclusive. In 1931 the amount collected was £18,562. Apart from all the disputes which had occurred and the differences of opinion as to tho reasonableness or otherwise of tho association's conduct in tho past, the Commission's conclusions appeared clear. It was difficult to imagine any other monopoly with such powers as were possessed by tho A.P.E.A. through its affiliation and association with the performing rights society and other -societies throughout tho ■ world. If controlled or claimed to control over 80 per cent, of the best music which was subject to copyright—and no one was in a- position to disputo these claims. It could dictate its own terms—without the association's consent no one jould use its music in public. Tho community was prevented from listening to its music unless the association agreed to its use in public. Unless the law was altered there could be no restraint upon its demand" ■