Music Video Broadcast Rights/Costs??

Mr_Ekan

Hey all,

Hope this is the right forum...

If there's anyone out there who could give me some clarification on the costs associated with broadcasting music videos on Irish TV I'd be very grateful!

I presume there's the IMRO performance royalties, but I've also heard of €100 cost per tape shown...does that mean per video shown, etc?



ta!

4diarmuid

In the old days... RTE paid a lump sum to at that time the Performing Rights Society in London for permission to broadcast live music. Recorded music was the subject of a separate payment to the MCPS Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. All music live or otherwise was typed out on daily schedules including the transmission of music during the test card transmiissions.

Four staff were involved in recording the schedules which were then sent to the PRS and the MCPS. They were supposed to divvy up the money among the artistes. But the Irish got little enough after management fees etc. From what I recall back in the late 70s the Irish artistes were organised by the then manager of the Irish branch of the PRS, Hugh Duffy who was the catalyst for IMRO, Irish Music Rights Organisation. Irish artistes then controlled their own royalties and really decent payments are now made to them by IMRO.

4diarmuid

Hit the send button too soon!!!

I'm not sure if this answers your question! Artistes don't pay for the music played on TV. The broadcaster does. I don't know what the value per play is now but it was quite small but then if it was a top twenty hit it began to amount to a tidy sum. A Eurovision winner would be guaranteed a million. A national song contest winner very much less.

Someone with more recent experience might update the situation.