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Originally posted by Dean Millson It's actually not APRA when you read it, it's the PPCA which was set up to represent the labels i believe. How surprising...

Yes, but the APRA pay through is based on what ARIA tell them is getting played (as per their data that they chose to release). The majority of ARIA directors are made up from the 4 majors. Who do you think they will be looking after ?

There is no accurate way to pay though this income on what is actually getting played in clubs, until every dj in every club submits a weekly play sheet.

Even if they did, the increase is well and truely out of line.

mate, i agree with you

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Originally posted by Marcus at Ffour If you take the same venue open an average of 3 nights a week the cost per annum is $65,520 - up from $4368.

The former number eats the latter. huge

so...what does all this mean for the clubbers and DJs?

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Originally posted by Nsonic so...what does all this mean for the clubbers and DJs?

Ideally the clubs will charge a few dollars more in cover charge rather than skimping somewhere else or worse, shutting down. I hope they don't assume that clubbers "won't" pay slightly more. I'd sure as hell rather pay an extra $5, if the alternative is some shitty cover band at a pub or an RnB superclub.. ugh. Shudder.

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Originally posted by Dean Millson I think the most interesting part of this is that most of the music played in the clubs that we all go too comes from overseas, not from local artists. So who is actually therefore getting the money from the $1 per person? Certainly not the artists who produce most of the music.

in a nutshell..

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from inthemix.com.au "After operating costs, the Phonographic Performance Company distributes half the money to record labels and the other half to Australian artists. This is based on the current ARIA Dance Charts. Those venues that play a more 'underground' or non-commercial style of music will effectively be paying for top 40 artists when they're not even playing their music!" this makes me sick. the artists i am going out to hear and support will not even benefit from me paying more, instead i will putting cash in the pockets of the major labels to further saturate the market with the music found on the ARIA dance chart? http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/....asp?chart=1D20

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Originally posted by James Brooke The winners here are artists and producers...

w0rd!!

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Originally posted by kittn I'd sure as hell rather pay an extra $5, if the alternative is some shitty cover band at a pub or an RnB superclub.. ugh. Shudder.

..or a decent aus band for around $15, and they get a "good" cut of that.

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Originally posted by James Brooke yeah it sucks but there isn't much we can do about it...

There is a lot that can be done about it. Shrugging of shoulders and saying "not much we can do" is obviously the worst course of action.

Who gives a shit?

Future will raise ticket prices to all their events by $2.80.

Big whoop.

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Originally posted by Dean Millson I think the most interesting part of this is that most of the music played in the clubs that we all go too comes from overseas, not from local artists. So who is actually therefore getting the money from the $1 per person? Certainly not the artists who produce most of the music.

Depends on which places you go, and what sort of music you go to?

I've been to events that are 100% local music. The income from that based to artists based on this scheme is basically being analysed on the basis of the ARIA Dance Chart. So, say there was a theoretical $100 kitty from that one event, and none of these artists are on the ARIA charts, TV Rock and Rogue Traders get all the royalties, how does that work?

That's exactly how it works by the sounds of it.

Hence why i'm rather skeptical about the whole thing. This seems like the easiest model for the majors to make a grab for cash, not the best model to support artists.

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