The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) today announced stage two of its AirIT initiative at the Adelaide Fuse Festival. AirIT is community radio’s exclusive catalogue of Australian music, provided free by Amrap for both the sector and the music industry.
MusicNSW is thrilled to announce a $48,000 commitment from Industry and Investment NSW (IINSW) to supporting export opportunities through the South By Southwest Conference held in Austin, Texas this month.
Distributed to artists and industry through support and funding, this money will assist in developing the profile and opportunity for NSW artists and industry in an international marketplace.
As part of this funding 11 grants of $3,000 each will be distributed to the following applicants to support their activities at what is arguably the world’s largest music industry event. Bird Music, Dappled Cities, Hello Pavement, Hub Artist Services, Jack Ladder, One Louder Entertainment, Parallel Management, Pivot, Sally Seltmann, Spunk and Winterman & Goldstein will each receive support for their attendance at SXSW.
These successful applicants represent a diverse cross section of the contemporary music industry in NSW and, for the first time, MusicNSW has been able to extend funding opportunities to industry individuals and organisations actively engaging in international markets and bringing economic and creative activity back to NSW.
“Music is a fantastic export for Australia, it obviously generates revenues for the country and NSW, but it also plays a very strong ‘ambassadorial’ role,” said Kylie Hargreaves, Executive Director of International Markets and Trade at Industry and Investment NSW upon the announcement of this funding.
Last month the Federal Court of Australia found that the 1979 and 1981 recordings of Men At Work’s iconic Australiana anthem Down Under infringed the copyright of children’s classic Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree when they allegedly reproduced a couple of bars for a flute line. While EMI and Men At Work are appealing the decision the ruling establishes an interesting precedent for sampling and copyright in music in Australia.
What’s that mean for you, the music maker?
Arts Law and the Music Council of Australia (MCA) are teaming up to deliver a seminar on what this decision means for the musicians and the arts community in Australia.
A panel of leading lawyers will explain the recent court decision involving the Kookaburra song and Men At Work’s Down Under and its impact on musicians, followed by a Q&A session.
Speakers: Barrister Stephen Burley SC, Kate Haddock (Partner of Banki Haddock Fiora) and Andrew Wiseman (Partner at Allens Arthur Robinson, and director of Arts Law)
When: Thursday 18 March at 6.00pm – Registration from 5.30pm
Where: The Gunnery Building 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo
Reservations required: $15/$10 concession – FREE for subscribers/members of Arts Law or MCA
Click HERE for registration form – please email or fax to artslaw@artslaw.com.au or fax 02 9358 6475
MusicNSW and Industry and Investment NSW are thrilled to announce 11 quick response grants built to support artists and independent industry in developing trade opportunities whilst attending the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas this March.
Submissions can only be made by an Artist and/ or independent business/ individuals involved in the industry based in NSW (i.e. must have a registered business name and/or mailing address in NSW). All applicants must be Australian citizens or have permanent residence status in Australia.
Artists and independent industry currently registered to attend the SXSW Music Conference in 2010 are invited to apply for one off funding to support the development of business opportunities whilst at the conference. 11 quick response grants of $3,000 have been made available to both artists and independent industry and will be assessed based on criteria detailed in the official call out, which you can download from here.
For more information contact MusicNSW Creative Director, Eliza Sarlos.
AAPT has launched a landmark deal with EMI music that will see home internet and phone bundled together with a music subscription that allows unlimited streaming from EMI’s online catalogue – The In Song – as well as $50 worth of music downloads a month. This kind of deal is a first for Australia.
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Sound Summit is excited to announce two new Festival Co-Directors for the 2010/11 events: Chris Hearn and Kirsty Brown.
Kirsty Brown is currently the Editor in Chief of her own large-format publication DEMO Magazine and Senior Writer for the Music Network, and was formerly the Managing Editor of Sydney based street press The Brag. Kirsty is a respected figure in the Australian music community, a regular ARIA and AIR voter, a respected speaker who has participated in APRA and Indent workshops, the JB Seed Managers Forum and panel appearances at Sound Summit and Creative Sydney. Kirsty is the regular editor of the annual Big Day Out program and has editorial experience on a variety of levels – including creation of sponsor editorial, editorial for awards ceremonies and has 200 issues of the Brag magazine under her belt.
Chris Hearn has been active in independent music scenes in Newcastle, Sydney and throughout Australia since 2001, regularly touring worldwide with his solo project ‘Alps’ in addition to actively facilitating live music events with long running club night “Spring Break”, and national touring initiative “Past Futures Presents”. In between international tours, Chris has taken jobs as an Administrator, Sound Engineer, and Online Content Contributor, and continues to organise a large number of local events.
The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA), on behalf of Ausralian recording artists and recording labels, has launched a constitutional case in the High Court challenging 40 year old legislation which limits the price that commercial radio industry pays for the recordings it broadcasts.
The High Court will be asked to examine a price cap contained in section 152(8) of the Copyright Act that was introduced in 1969. The price cap limits the amount Australian commercial stations can be required to pay to artists and labels to no more than 1 per cent of a broadcaster’s gross income, well below rates typically paid by radio elsewhere around the world.
The commercial radio sector now earns revenue of up to a billion dollars a year, but the price cap means that the sector in total pays just $4 million dollars for all the recordings played each year on Australia’s 261 commercial radio stations.
The Australian constitution requires that any law effecting an acquisition of property – such as a licence of copyright – must be on just terms.
A few weeks ago the Australian Music Prize (AMP) announced it’s first short list artist; NSW based and one of Australia’s biggest hip hop act – Urthboy. At the St Kilda Festival on February 14, Urthboy and the AMP organisers announced the rest with a majority of NSW based artists following suit:
‘As Day Follows Night’ Sarah Blasko
‘Secrets & Lies’ Bertie Blackman
‘For The Birds’ The Mess Hall
‘Wonder’ Lisa Mitchell
‘Call Signs’ Black Cab
‘Black Across the Field’ Lucie Thorne
‘Kid Sam LP’ Kid Sam
‘Privileged Woes’ Oh Mercy
and ‘Spitshine’ Urthboy
One of these artists will go on to be the winner of The Amp’s prestigious $30,000 cash prize courtesy of PPCA. The winner will also receive $30,000 worth of media on Channel [V] and MAX. Channel [V] is also producing a 30min program showcasing this year’s Shortlisted artists. Furthermore, all of these artists are now eligible to be the winner of the $15,000 Red Bull Award In Recognition of Outstanding Potential.
In a landmark decision delivered Thursday February 5, 2010, the Federal Court of Australia has held that iiNet, and all Australian ISPs, do not have an obligation to prohibit copyright infringement across their networks. This verdict is regarded to have global implications as it now sets a strong precedent in how courts may deal with ISPs worldwide.
During the 3 month trial industry body AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) argued that iiNet authorised the copyright infringement by not actively preventing its customers from downloading movies via BitTorrent protocols.
In its defence, iiNet argued that it could not be held liable for its customer’s actions, much in the same way as Australia Post is not held liable for the trafficking of illegal substances across its networks. iiNet also stated that, under law, its customers are innocent until proven guilty and it was not the ISP’s duty to judge them.
Justice Cowdroy agreed with iiNet that there was no obligation to actively protect the copyright of third parties.The Judge stated that ISPs have no control of the BitTorrent system and cannot be expected to be responsible for it.
The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) and the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN) are pleased to announce Australian Indigenous artists are the first unsigned artists eligble to access Amrap’s AirIT.
The Partnership will see a number of Indigenous added to Amrap’s AirIT each month. The Indigenous artists are sourced and recommended by AMIN, whose member organisations are currently working with Indigenous artists in Queensland, The Northern Territory, Western Australia and New South Wales.
AirIT is community radio’s exclusive catalogue of Australian music, curated by Amrap. Until now artists available on AirIT were mostly signed to major or indpendent record labels.
32% of AirIT users already play Indigenous music on their radio shows, often sourcing the music direct from the artists. Through this iniaititve, Amrap and AMIN will work together to make Indigenous music available on AirIT for all 300+ community stations and their broadcasters to order for Airplay.
AMIN Chair Paul Bodlovich said the project was a perfect fit with the organisation’s aim of supporting contemporary music from across the country.
The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) today announced stage two of its AirIT initiative at the Adelaide Fuse Festival. AirIT is community radio’s exclusive catalogue of Australian music, provided free by Amrap for both the sector and the music industry.
AAPT has launched a landmark deal with EMI music that will see home internet and phone bundled together with a music subscription that allows unlimited streaming from EMI’s online catalogue – The In Song – as well as $50 worth of music downloads a month. This kind of deal is a first for Australia.
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