The Norwegian cooperative of authors and music publishers, TONO, is currently paying a total of NOK 113,6 million to authors and music publishers at home and abroad. The payment is the first of TONO's four annual, quarterly payments, and of the total amount, NOK 48,2 million goes to TONO's members.
/ 17/03/2021 / Kristian DugstadTONO, the collective management company for Norwegian authors and music publishers, is currently paying out a total of NOK 113,6 million. Of this, NOK 48,2 million goes to TONO members and NOK 64,5 million is sent to rights holders abroad. NOK 0,9 million is reserved for currently unidentified rights holders/musical works, unannounced musical works, non-members and disputed rights.
The money that is now specifically paid out comes from TONO's work in invoicing radio and TV channels, film and music streaming services, cinemas, concert organizers, sister societies and so on. The money is settled on the basis of music reports. In total, around 7200 TONO members have had activity this time that involves them receiving a settlement.
The 40 million that Minister of Culture Abid Raja has said will be distributed to TONO and Gramo as compensation for Norwegian rights holders' loss of income as a result of Covid-19 has not yet been paid to the companies, and is therefore not part of this settlement.
– This entire author economy is based on the fact that since 1928, Norwegian composers, lyricists and music publishers have granted permission for the public performance of their music collectively through TONO. The collective management model means that those who create music can receive reasonable remuneration for the public performance of their music, while at the same time, it, and the blanket license principle, imply something as customer-friendly as giving permission to perform practically the world's repertoire in one place, says Cato Strøm, CEO of TONO.
Area Settlement amount in NOK
Radio 15,471,295,25
Television 26,273,595,26
Online 42,308,728,00
Concert/live 5,600,866,93
Cinema 83,024,03
Clock performance 716,627,25
Private copying 2,242,134,90
Abroad 20,909,114,08
Other areas 17,430,85
Radio
In the radio area, payments are being made for performances on NRK (15 channels), Bauer Media (9 channels), and the P4 group (9 channels) for performances in the third quarter of last year. Payments are also being made for performances on local radio stations for 2019, specifically 14 channels that have not previously been paid for.
Television broadcasting
Within traditional TV broadcasting, payments are made for performances on NRK (5 channels), TV2 (7 channels) and TV Norge in the 3rd quarter of 2020. Payments are also made for the NRK web player for the 2nd quarter of 2020, as well as the use of music in NRK's social media channels for 2018 and 2019. Payments are also made for performances in the 2nd quarter of last year on TV2 Sumo and for VGTV linear for 2017 and 2018.
Television distribution
From this area, billing is made for performances on the channels Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, Discovery World, Investigation Discovery and TLC for the first half of 2020. For the channels Fem, Max and Vox, billing is made for performances in the first quarter of 2020.
Concerts/Live events
This includes performances in the areas of theatre, revue and mega concerts, which in the TONO context are concerts with a gross TONO fee of NOK 25,000. There are naturally not many of these in this calculation, in light of the Covid-19 situation.
Streaming services
TONO is this time settling for performances on Spotify for July-October 2020, YouTube for Q3 2020, iTunes for Q2 2020 and for Google Play for Q2 and Q3 2020.
Video on demand services
In this area, TONO settles for music performances in films on Netflix for the 2nd quarter of 2020, Viaplay for the 2nd quarter and 3rd quarter of 2020, Altibox for the 3rd quarter of 2020, Google Play VOD for the 3rd quarter of 2020, SF Anytime for the 2nd quarter of 2020, and VGTV streaming for 2017 and 2018.
Other areas
Settlements are also made for private copying for 2019, as well as from performances abroad. In addition, routine post-clearance settlements are made for previous periods (maximum 3 years back) in the broadcasting area, concert area, cinema, etc., as well as corrections.
About TONO:
TONO was founded in 1928 and is a non-profit cooperative owned and managed by authors (composers and lyricists) and music publishers, and on their behalf manages the economic copyrights in the music they have created. TONO grants permission for the use of protected music, for example on radio, TV, the internet, concerts and cinemas for a fee, and transfers its financial results each year to the rights holders in music that has been played publicly. TONO has more than 36,000 members, but also works with millions of authors and music publishers from around the world. TONO's social role is twofold, on the one hand collecting and simplifying the licensing of protected music and on the other hand providing music creators with an economic basis for creating new musical works. TONO's turnover in 2019 was kr 771 millions.
For more information:
Willy Martinsen, communications manager at TONO, willy.martinsen (a) tono.no, mob. 909 65 254.