Broadcasting Records.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 8

Broadcasting Records.

'J'HE QUESTION of the right of broadcasting companies to use phonograph records for their entertainments was being inquired into in Sydney during November, the claim of the manufacturers of the records being that their sales are being destroyed. One agency stated that it was selling only fifteen per cent of the number of records disposed of previously (though the decline was not attributed wholly to the broadcasting). The national network, which is in the hands of the Federal Government, made an arrangement some time ago with the Columbia Graphophone, the Parlophone and His Master’s Voice Companies, but there remain several broadcasting companies which have made no such agreement, and the phonograph companies had decided to prohibit the use of records for broadcasting owing to the detriment to the sales.

The Australian Performing Rights Association is active in watching the use of copyright music. A Church of England Dean wrote to the commission saying that he had had a demand for a return as to all choral items, which included hymns, in a service that was broadcast.