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A simplified music licensing program has launched today, with the aim of slashing administration time in half.

Branded OneMusic Australia, the initiative consolidates music licence transactions with Australia’s two music rights management bodies PPCA and APRA AMCOS.

OneMusic Australia will allow businesses to establish and maintain their licence in one place and online, giving greater transparency to the process of music licensing.

This offering is the result of ongoing consultation with the consumer retail and service industry as well as business-to-business service industry and others over the past two years.

There is a bespoke Retail and Service Providers licence scheme to cover the entire retail industry music used in the premises of goods retailers such as a fashion stores.

The user-pays offering provides seven options to add to a ‘shopping cart’ of music licence cover.

Retailers can opt for cover if they have background music, featured music, music videos, website music, music in their car parks, workplace music or telephone on hold music.

A retail business of less than 51 square metres of ‘customer space’ (not including back rooms) with just a radio or television on need only budget for $85 a year for music licence fees.

For the increasing majority of retailer and service providers using a personal streaming service to play music in-store or on the premises, there is abundled Gold package.

It covers digital copy/delivery music use which requires a licence but also permits an unlimited number of devices playing music - from a commercial background music supplier, Video On Demand, TV, radio, CD or vinyl records.

This allows a medium retailer to create different ‘music zones’ and obtain maximum value from their licence.

The retail and service providers licence scheme also offers featured music licence fees of $12 per ‘featured-music-day’ to further encourage and educate the sector on the use of featured music as a profit-booster - worth-of-mouth, customer experience and customer spend.

APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston welcomed the move.

“A simple, single, easy-to-use system will significantly reduce the administration burden for everyone.

PPCA CEO Dan Rosen also supported the venture.

“This is an important initiative which allows us to continue our work in supporting innovation and creativity for the Australian music industry.”

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