State and Federal Government
The State and Federal Government scheme (SFG Scheme) has been developed by OneMusic Australia for Australian state, territory, and federal government bodies. The scheme comprises the typical types of cover required by state and federal government bodies and uses the rates and structures as applies under each ‘source’ scheme. Links to each scheme are provided below.
This Rate Setting Guide describes how OneMusic Australia sets the rates under the SFG Scheme. For more information about how OneMusic Australia 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:
- Workplace Music
- Background Music
- Car Parks
- Featured Music
- Exhibiting Music Videos
- Website Use
- Telephone on Hold
- Background Music for Dining
1. Workplace Music
Workplace Music permits state and federal governments to:
- allow employees to play music while at work (including via radios, streaming services, and CDs), whether the music is played on speakers or via headsets and earphones;
- allow employees to use music in staff training or in other presentations;
- allow employees to play background music online via closed networks when working remotely, during staff meetings, staff training, and presentations to which the general public are not admitted; and
- perform music for the benefit of employees, their families, or corporate guests at free functions and private conferences put on by state and federal governments. If there is an entry fee at any function, or the gross expenditure on live artist performers is $50,000 or more, a separate Event licence will need be to obtained.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Workplace Music under the SFG Scheme is a flat fee, with the rate depending on the number of full-time employees. Deductions are available where a state or federal government body either uses no PPCA recordings or no APRA and/or AMCOS works.
Rate:
The rate is less than but similar to the rate under the Workplace Music licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Workplace Music is available HERE.
2. Background Music
Background Music means music played that is not given prominence or used as a feature of the location. It includes music contained in television programs and films.
Background Music has been a feature of APRA’s public performance music licensing since the 1930s and is typically recorded music that is delivered via a sound system at the location (including CDs and digital music services), but can also be from televisions, radios, and commercial background music suppliers.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Background Music under the SFG Scheme is a flat fee, with the rate depending on:
- the device and/or source of music used; and
- the size of the area of each location operated by the government body where music is audible, in m2.
The device or source of music indicates the value of the music to the licensee. The less sophisticated the device or source, such as radio, the lesser assumed value of the use. For instance, a licensee who chooses radio as the source for its Background Music is indicating less of an interest in the selection of musical works and the value to its business, compared to a licensee that uses a customised or even professionally curated digital playlist.
As a result, there are three (3) options depending on the device and/or source of the music played – Gold, Silver and Bronze. Bronze, at the lowest rate, is limited to a terrestrial or digital broadcast through television and/or radio, and Gold, at the highest rate, includes additional rights for playing music from a digital music service.[1]
Each of Gold, Silver and Bronze are further divided into ‘area size’ tiers based on the dimensions of the area where the music is being played.
Deductions apply under the Gold and Silver tiers for each location where the playing of music either uses no PPCA recordings or no APRA and/or AMCOS works.
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Retail and Service Providers licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Retail and Service Providers is available HERE.
3. Car Parks
Car Parks is for indoor or outdoor car parks where OneMusic Australia’s music is audible to those members of the public who use a government body’s services for parking.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Car Parks under the SFG Scheme is a flat fee that is able to be ‘added on’ to a Background Music licence.
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Retail and Service Providers licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Retail and Service Providers is available HERE.
4. Featured Music
Under the SFG Scheme, the Featured Music licence category is for live or recorded music that is given prominence as a feature (for example, where music is played live and put together for a specific purpose or event like a gallery donors’ night), excluding performances where there is an entry fee or where gross expenditure on live artist performers for that performance is greater than $4,000.
Rate Structure:
The Featured Music rate is a fixed amount for each day featured music is performed at the location, with two price tiers depending on location size in m2. The rate for Featured Music is able to be ‘added on’ to a Background Music licence.
Deductions are available for each location for each day where the performance of music either uses no PPCA recordings or no APRA and/or AMCOS works.
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Retail and Service Providers licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Retail and Service Providers is available HERE.
5. Exhibiting Music Videos
Exhibiting Music Videos means to play music videos via a source such as a TV network channel (MTV or ABC Rage), online platforms such as Vevo, digital services such as YouTube, or from a DVD.
Rate Structure:
The fixed annual rate for Exhibiting Music Videos is able to be ‘added on’ to a Background Music licence, with the rate structure tiered according to location size in m2.
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Retail and Service Providers licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Retail and Service Providers is available HERE.
6. Website Use
The use of OneMusic Australia’s music as background streams on websites is a licensing category that appears in a number of OneMusic Australia’s schemes, including the SFG Scheme.
More information about the rate and rate structure for Website Use is available HERE.
7. Telephone on Hold
Telephone on Hold involves the communication of music across telecommunication lines to listeners placed on hold by a government body. The right to reproduce or copy music for the purposes of placing that music on the telephone on hold system is also available under this licence category.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Telephone on Hold is a flat annual fee, with the rate depending on:
- the caller capacity of the telephone system;
- whether the licensee is a single location or a multiple location licensee; and
- whether the licensee requires copying as well as communication.
A deduction is available for a state, territory or federal government body that does not use PPCA recordings or APRA and/or AMCOS works in its telephone on hold music.
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Workplace Music licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Workplace Music is available HERE.
8. Background Music for Dining
Background Music for Dining means music (recorded or otherwise) used in dining areas, including music videos, at the government operated location, which is primarily intended to be passively listened to, not intended to be the main focus, and is not featured music.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Background Music for Dining under the SFG 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 television and/or radio. Gold, at the highest rate, includes music played from an online stream or from a music download via a consumer digital music service or other online source.
The rate structure for each tier is a flat fee, with the rate depending on the Dining Area Capacity.
Deductions apply for each location where the playing of music either uses no PPCA recordings or no APRA and/or AMCOS works.
Dining Area Capacity means the seating capacity of the restaurant (in other words the number of seats generally placed for customers in the dining premises, both inside and outside, where the music can be heard).
Rate:
The rate is the same as under the Dining licence. More information about the rate and rate structure for Dining is available HERE.
[1] The right to reproduce (copy) and publicly perform music from a digital music service in a business setting (Digital Copy/Delivery). More information about Digital Copy/Delivery is available HERE.