Federal Court of Australia
} me AVIV NO. veal eoaf eovcoensenee | ry COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIACOPYRIGHT ACT 1968 IN THE COPYRIGHT TRIBUNAL NO. 1A OF 1980 APPLICATION UNDER S. 152 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 BY WEA RECORDS PTY. LIMITED ASTOR RECORDS PTY. LTD., R.C.A. LIMITED, POLYGRAM RECORDS PTY. LTD., C.B.S. RECORDS AUSTRALIA LIMITED, FESTIVAL RECORDS PTY. LIMITED THE TRIBUNAL: ~ EMI (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED, LOCKHART J. Deputy President R.M.J. PURVIS Esq., Q.C. . D.K. MALCOLM Esq., Q.C. Applicants
STEREO F.M. PTY. LIMITED
Respondent
17 MAY 1983 REASONS FOR DECISION
WEA Records Pty. Limited, EMI (Australia) Limited, Festival Records Pty. Limited, CBS Records Australia Limited, Polygram Records Pty. Limited, RCA Limited and Astor Records Pty. 'Limited ("the record companies") and Phonographic Performance Coe of Australia Limited ("PPCA") have applied to this Tribunal under s. 152 of the Copyright Act 1968 ("the Act") for orders determining the amounts payable to each of them as the owners of copyrights in published sound recordings by the holders of
Licences for commercial FM broadcasting stations in Australia
("the broadcasters"). The broadcasters are Stereo FM Pty.
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-2- Limited ("2MMM"), Sydney FM Limited ("2DAY"), Broadcast FM Pty. Limited ("3FOXK"), Adelaide Stereo FM Pty. Limited ("5SSA"), New Broadcasting Pty. Limited ("6NoOWw"), Melbourne FM Radio Pty.
Limited ("3EOM") and Stereo FM. Brisbane Limited ("4MMM"). Each of the broadcasters is the holder of a commercial radio broadcasting
_Licence under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 which entitles the holder to broadcast by means of FM rather than the
, conventional AM. FM broadcasting by commercial radio commenced in 1980 with the granting of licenses on 22 August 1980 by the
Australian Broadcasting Tribunal.
PPCA was incorporated in New South Wales in March 1969.
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