COPYRIGHT FEES ON MUSIC PLAYED IN FACTORIES
DUNEDIN, Last Night (PA).—Factory owners who play recorded music or relay wireless programmes to their employees may have to pay copyright fees in future. The Australasian Performing Rights Association has sent, out circulars stating that as from January 1, it proposes to levy charges on all persons who “cause the public performance of copyright music.” The association maintains that the playing of music in factories constitutes a public performance The annual fee will not be heavy for individual factories, but will run into several thousands of pounds over the whole country. Where tfiere are fewer than 100 employees, the iee will be up to two guineas annually. A factory employing <3OO hands would have to pay £7 10s. To back up its claims, Ihe association quotes judgments of test cases in Australia and England. So far as is known, there has been Tio test case in New Zealand.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 20 December 1950, Page 6
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