Australian music royalty including Cold Chisel’s Ian Moss, country queen Kasey Chambers and one-time King of Pop where at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday to spread the word and the word was “copyright”.
“Please just protect our copyright. That’s all I’ve got to say,” John Paul Young said in a statement.
Ian Moss said, “(as a songwriter) royalties are your living. You work hard to write a song. If we could all do that we’d all be writing hits everyday…people love their live music, but people have got to write that music in the first place and they need to make a living”.
200 Ministers, Senators and Parliament House staff watched a concert on the steps of Parliament House by Kasey, John, Ian and All Our Exes Come From Texas.
“Touring for me, particularly here in Australia, is everything,” Kasey said. “It feeds my kids…I make my living from touring music, and it’s important for me to get out to all the regional places as well. I tour most of the year and visit some of the littlest towns throughout Australia, but we have to have these venues to play in”.
The key issues addressed were:
• Protecting creators’ rights
• The value of copyright
• The importance of local content
• Supporting Australia’s music micro-businesses
• Australia’s global music export potential
Here are some figures detailing how the Australian music industry impacts on the economy.
AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC INDUSTRY IN NUMBERS
Australian contemporary music is big business
• Music Australia has estimated the music sector contributes $4 to $6 billion to the Australian economy1
• Copyright industries generate more value add to the Australian economy than manufacturing and health care; recorded music is one of the most significant contributors2
• Evidence from overseas suggests that the introduction of a Fair Use exception will result in a drop of $1.3 billion in Australia’s GDP3
• More Australians attend live music than sport4
• Australia’s live contemporary music industry generates revenues of $1.5 to $2 billion annually5
Contemporary music generates jobs and growth
• Expenditure associated with live music making in Australia is estimated to generate in the order of 64,747 jobs, 37,652 of which are full-time6
• Creative industries are strong contributors to employment growth, growing 40 per cent faster than the economy as a whole7
• Australian music and performing arts businesses comprise almost one per cent of all Australian small businesses8.
1 Estimating the Value of the Music Sector (2005-2014) – Music in Australia Knowledge Base
2 Australian Copyright Council (2015)
3 Understanding the costs and benefits of introducing a ‘fair use’ exception (2016) PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia
4 Roy Morgan Research (2014) Rocking on or all jazzed up, more Aussies go to see live music than live sport
5 E&Y for APRA Economic contribution of the venue-based live music industry in Australia (2011) & 2014 Ticket Attendance and Revenue Survey Live Performance Australia (2015)
6 The Economic and Cultural Value of Live Music in Australia, University of Tasmania (2014)
7 ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) CREATIVE ECONOMY REPORT CARD (2013)
8 Valuing Australia’s Creative Industries Final Report (2013) Creative Industries Innovation Centre
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