Dining
The Dining scheme has been developed by OneMusic Australia (OneMusic) for restaurants, cafés, bistros – essentially any commercial enterprise preparing meals and hot drinks such as tea and coffee, consumed onsite or off-site.
This Rate Setting Guide describes how OneMusic sets the rates under the Dining 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.
Licensees under this scheme range from small, single-location premises (for example, a family-owned table service restaurant) to large, multi-location operators (for example, a counter-service fast food franchise).
This scheme provides coverage for the use of our music in these licensing categories:
- Background Music for Dining
- Featured Music
- Website Use
- Telephone on Hold
1. Background Music for Dining
Background Music means music that is not given prominence or used as a feature of a restaurant. Background Music for Dining includes music played from radios, CD players, smartphones, tablets, TV screens, and other devices that are used in a restaurant’s dining area.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Background Music for Dining under the Dining scheme comprises three (3) tier options based on the device and/or source of the music used at the location – Gold, Silver and Bronze. Bronze, at the lowest rate, is limited to music played from a terrestrial or digital broadcast through TV and/or radio. Gold, at the highest rate, includes music played from an online stream or a music download via a personal digital music service or other online source.
The rate structure for each tier is a flat amount, with the amount depending on the Dining Area Capacity according to a series of tiers (e.g. 31-50 seats). A deduction applies for the Gold and Silver tiers where either none of our PPCA recordings or none of our songs are used. A separate deduction applies to all tiers for each location that is open fewer than 150 days per year.
The Dining Area Capacity means the seating capacity of the restaurant; in other words the number of seats generally placed for customers in the dining area - inside and outside - where the music can be heard.
Rate:
The existing APRA and PPCA rates/structure, as at 2019, were significantly different from each other. As a result OneMusic released three consultation papers in 2017 and 2018 that proposed a new rate structure. Following the release of the second paper, Restaurant & Catering Industry Association of Australia (the peak industry body) approached OneMusic with a view to entering into commercial negotiations on the new rates and structure. The outcome of those discussion were reflected in the final position paper, which was published in 2019.
2. Featured Music
Under the Dining scheme, the Featured Music licence category is for live or recorded music that is given prominence as a feature (that is, it is not background music). For instance, when a DJ plays music or where live music is put together for a specific purpose or event such as a ‘Tex Mex Tuesdays’ or ‘Sunday Jazz and Canapes’. Featured Music does not include performances where there is an Entry Fee or where Gross Expenditure on Live Artist Performers for that performance is greater than $6,000.
Rate Structure:
The Featured Music rate is a fixed amount for each day Featured Music is performed at the restaurant, with two price tiers depending on Dining Area Capacity.
Rate:
The licence fee is the same as the Featured Music component of the Cinema and Retail and Service Providers licences, and was benchmarked against the licence fees for Featured Recorded Music under the Hotels, Pubs, Taverns, Bars and Casinos licence, which is $0.264 per person admitted.
3. Website Use
The use of music as background streams on websites is a licensing category that appears in a number of OneMusic Australia’s schemes, including the Dining scheme.
More information about the rate and rate structure for Website Use is available HERE.
4. Telephone on Hold
Telephone on Hold music under the Dining scheme involves the same rates and rate structure as under the Workplace Music and Telephone on Hold scheme.