{"id":225,"date":"2024-06-22T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=225"},"modified":"2024-06-22T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:03:53","slug":"senate-standing-committee-on-legal-and-constitutional-affairs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/senate-standing-committee-on-legal-and-constitutional-affairs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Commercial Radio &amp; Audio (CRA) chair Ciaran Davis:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercial Radio &amp; Audio (CRA) welcomes the recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, that the\u00a0<em>Copyright Legislation Amendment (Fair Pay for Radio Play) Bill 2023<\/em>\u00a0not be passed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good news for the 260 radio stations across Australia that CRA represents, as this Bill would have had dire consequences for our industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercial radio provides an essential service to communities across Australia, delivering local content, news and information in a challenging economic and regulatory environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCRA expects that the cap debate can now be put to rest, to allow radio to sustain itself as a critical part of Australia\u2019s media landscape and cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is to be further analysis, the focus needs to be on where the money is going, as we remain concerned that multinational record giants are profiting at the expense of Australian artists and industries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial Radio &amp; Audio (CRA) chair Ciaran Davis: \u201cCommercial Radio &amp; Audio (CRA) welcomes the recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, that the\u00a0Copyright Legislation Amendment (Fair Pay for Radio Play) Bill 2023\u00a0not be passed by the Senate. \u201cThis is good news for the 260 radio stations across Australia that CRA &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/senate-standing-committee-on-legal-and-constitutional-affairs-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS REPORT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}