Posts by Sacha
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Nice interview, David. Thanks again.
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Political slashfic in the offing?
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Heh. Usually defeated by stairs, so the metaphor holds.
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Somone send a film crew! Next season's hot reality show, maybe for the Japanese or German markets.
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Them guys in wheelchairs is jest dangerous to common folk. </chews straw>
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"I gave it to the captain and he threw it out the window"
Nice.
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Oh, and I should say there's twaddle from both sides in that story.
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Radio royalty dispute between broadcasters and rights-holders hits local courts tomorrow.
The case is shrouded in secrecy, but the Sunday Star-Times has been told the music industry is seeking a four-fold increase in royalties from the country's two major radio networks.
...Suppression orders are expected to be imposed tomorrow, restricting reportage of individual radio station advertising revenues and other commercially sensitive information. Publicly available figures put last year's total radio industry advertising turnover at about $268 million.
Based on a deal in place since 1996, stations have been paying 1.75% of their gross advertising revenue in royalties to Phonographic Performances New Zealand (PPNZ) the monetary arm of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (Rianz) which, in turn, distributes payments to 61 record labels and more than 900 local artists.
PPNZ is now seeking a 6% payment from commercial stations with gross advertising revenue of more than $5m a year.
Kristin Bowman, PPNZ managing director, said: "At the heart of the debate is our desire to see a fair and reasonable return for those who create music."
And again the blanket conflation of creators with rights-holders continues. Looking forward to a journo becoming smart enough to call them on that during interviews, or at least ask what arrangements will be in place to ensure that the record companies pass on the increase to musicians. Kind of like bank interest rates.
Case should be interesting, anyway, and echoes those recent efforts overseas.
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Leerjet, surely.
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quite useful if you are looking at dropping a cheeky 6kg
I may need to become infected several times in succession. :)
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