Yeah. I can tell ya Cobber. The APRA pay per song per play is two buck, and it isn'tm the artist performoing it who pays for it.
That comes out of the money PROs collect from venues, and other related scources as I am still trying to find out what,
Once again from memory, private gigs at houeses and some venues are not deemed as public performance and so do not require a play list to be submitted.
Toward the some suit may her the artist doing the song and turn the writer into an over night millionaire.
Yeah right.
Happens all the time.
Fact is re the payed to perform thing Guys.
With APRA the artist performing a song does not have to even be paid to sing the song for it to be used to alow the Writer to be listed as a full pro member.
All it takes is that the song is listed in the writer's initial application along with the date, artist, venue and location, and the venue managers signature under the "yes, this song was sung on this date at my venue" thing.
And yes. APRA do check with the venue it did in fact happen, on a random basis.
I do symathize with artists who don't always get paid their true worth Bob, but do try to remember quite often the writer doesn't get paid at all in most cases, and I am sure most of them spent a lot of time and/or money getting the song up to a stage where the artist could hear it good enough to think it would be worth singing.
I don't call that greed , I call that fairness.
And can tell you, my first royalty cheque, small as it was because I don't perform often felt good.
And was the only payment I got for the gig too as I was just up jamming.
Sort of made me feel like I did belong.
Graham


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