AN EXPLANATION OF YOUR ROYALTY ENTITLEMENTS

Royalty payments are payments made to musicians for the performance of their music. Musicians are entitled to royalties if their music is played on radio. You should expect to be paid royalties from airplay on broadcast radio, when and where radio stations are using your music.

Ison Live Radio produces products and live streams which are used by broadcast radio. We do not own broadcast radio stations nor do we make any public performance of your music, therefore we are not ourselves liable for the payment of royalties.

When you send music to us you are sending it to us to promote it and for it to be used in our products for radio:

  • Feature radio programs such as World Outback AND
  • Direct programming to subscriber radio stations for transmission by the subscriber station to an audience.

    We do not accept music on any other basis and this is clearly explained on our website.

    All Australian radio stations make license payments and report to APRA. Part of this payment they make is also for your music (where the stations have used one of our products) and to this end we publish playlists for each show so that subscribing stations can report the songs used accurately. Direct programming plays are tracked in real time (ie. when the station has the service switched to air at their station) - we provide monthly logs of all the music each individual station has used in any given month as part of the direct stream. We believe that these are reasonable steps on our part to ensure you receive royalty payments. It is as far as we can press the issue without alienating customers - naturally we can't tell broadcasters what they should and shouldn't report to APRA.

    Overseas organisations like SOCAN and BMI have reciprocal arrangements with APRA in Australia. Tracking and claiming procedures can vary slightly from country to country but generally your royalties are calculated for you from station reporting. This of course is dependent upon the stations reporting correctly and APRA forwarding royalties correctly.

    The other method is for an artist or label to make a claim based on airplay that they are aware of. For us to faciliate this would require us to disclose sensitive business information; in particular a list of our clients. The part of the radio business in which we work is extremely competitive and it is directly against our interests to disclose the details of who uses our products to anyone. Our customer base and contacts are the result of hard work and we insist that anyone who wishes to make use of that customer base does so on our terms.