Dance & Performance Instructors and Dance Schools
The Dance and Performance Instructors and Dance Schools Scheme (DPIDS Scheme) has been developed for dance schools and dance, acting, and performance tutors.
This Rate Setting Guide describes how OneMusic Australia (OneMusic) sets the rates under the DPIDS Scheme. For more information about how OneMusic fixes rates and determines rate structures more generally, please see the Rate Setting Guide - General Background available HERE.
This scheme provides coverage for the use of OneMusic’s music in these licensing categories:
- Music in Dance Classes
- Dance School Events
- Audio Recording/Digital Package
- Video Recording Package
- Website Use
1. Music in Dance Classes
The Music in Dance Classes licence category provides permission to Dance and Performance Schools to play or perform music in association with dance classes, lessons, and rehearsals.
Dance classes taking place in fitness centres or gyms (such as Zumba or Hip-Hop) are covered under the Fitness Centre and Fitness & Wellbeing Instructors scheme, available HERE.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Music in Dance Classes is a flat fee per Location, with four price tiers depending on the number of dance classes per week over a 12-month period.
Location means a particular place where the dance instruction takes place. However, if a dance instructor spreads their dance classes across different Locations at different times of the day or different days of the week (such that two or more classes are not held at the same time on the same day at more than one location) we will count this as operating in one Location.
Rate:
OneMusic consulted with dance school licensees and peak bodies during 2018. The previous rate structure for both APRA and PPCA was a rate per day per location irrespective of the number of classes held. The new rates more closely align the licence fee with the number of classes, which acts as a better proxy for audience/box office.
2. Dance School Events
The Dance School Events licence category is for the use of OneMusic’s music at events, recitals, and performances by the Dance and Performance School or students of a Dance and Performance Instructor where the Entry Fee is $40 or less (including GST and any booking and handling fee). It excludes ballets, performances in a dramatic context, and Eisteddfod Performances.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for the Dance School Events licence category is a flat fee per licensee, with two price tiers depending on the number of Dance School Events per year.
Rate:
APRA consulted with dance school licensees and peak bodies in 2018. The previous APRA and PPCA live performance rates were used as a benchmark.
3. Audio Recording/Digital Package
The Audio Recording/Digital Package covers the Reproduction (copying) of up to 2,000 tracks containing PPCA Sound Recordings and/or APRA Works and AMCOS Works. This includes downloading or accessing music from a consumer digital music service (for example, Spotify).
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for the Audio Recording/Digital Package is a flat fee per student.
Rate:
OneMusic consulted with dance school licensees and peak bodies in 2018. This licence was previously offered by AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society) and ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) under a joint licensing arrangement. Under that licence there was a single rate covering both this Audio Recording/Digital Package and the Video Recording Package. The new rate for the Audio Recording/Digital Package was a continuation of the AMCOS/ARIA rate - a rate that had been in place since the early 1990s, subject to CPI adjustment – but at 1/3rd of that rate.
4. Video Recording Package
The Video Recording Package licence category includes:
- making up to three video recordings (that include APRA Works, AMCOS Works, and ARIA Sound Recordings) per student of a Dance School Event per year; or
- making three copies per student of the one video recording per year.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for the Video Recordings Package is a flat fee per student.
Rate:
OneMusic consulted with dance school licensees and peak bodies in 2018. This licence was previously offered by AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society) and ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) under a joint licensing arrangement. Under that licence there was a single rate covering both this Video Recording Package and the Audio Recording/Digital Package. The new rate for the Video Recording Package was a continuation of the AMCOS/ARIA rate - a rate that had been in place since the early 1990s, subject to CPI adjustment – but at 2/3rds of that rate.
5. Website Use
The use of music as background streams on websites is a licensing category that appears in a number of OneMusic’s schemes, including the DPIDS Scheme.
More information about the Website Use licence category is available HERE.