Bill
Copyright Legislation Amendment (Fair Pay for Radio Play) Bill 2023
before parliament, as at 2025-07-23.
- Sponsor
- David Pocock
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-08-03
- second reading — 2023-08-03
- second reading — 2023-08-09
- other — 2025-07-21
- other — 2025-07-23
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-08-03.
The bill would remove legal limits on how much radio broadcasters pay to play sound recordings.
It would delete provisions in the Copyright Act 1968 that cap licence fees at one per cent of gross earnings for commercial broadcasters and at 0.5 cents per person for the ABC.
Copyright collecting societies could then negotiate market rates with broadcasters, and the Copyright Tribunal would remain as a safeguard.
- Removes the one per cent cap on licence fees for commercial radio broadcasters.
- Removes the 0.5 cents per head cap on licence fees for the ABC.
- Allows copyright collecting societies to negotiate market rates for sound recording licences.
- Aligns the treatment of sound recording rights with other copyrights that have no statutory cap.
Radio broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, copyright collecting societies, and Australian artists and rights holders.
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