On the Ballade website on January 14, and in Aftenposten on January 17, Audun Aagre wrote a follow-up post as a result of TONO's response and comments to Aagre's claim that TONO opposes music films. Here you can read TONO's response and comments on the matter.
/ 18/01/2008 / codexBy Berit Kolstad, Deputy Director of TONO and Head of the NCB Department
We have already declared our agreement that NCB's AV tariffs are not well adapted to documentary films about and with composers and their music, and we have also already said that we take this issue seriously. It naturally follows that we will do something about it. It should be clarified that what NCB charges is not a form of We charge for the actual use of music that is inserted. The remuneration collected is earmarked for the individual musical work and is of course settled with the rights holder in the same work. It is difficult for us to understand that despite the fact that other "hard" production costs in connection with a film production have become lower, this does not seem to have any positive effect on the producer's willingness and ability to pay for the actual content of the production, in this case the music. On behalf of all rights holders, we find it sad to experience that these always become the balance sheet item. We do not believe that film producers make “music films” solely out of pure enthusiasm for and love of a composer and his/her works, any more than we believe that most composers want to give away the use of their works out of that enthusiasm for and love of the producer. From that standpoint, we should probably find a proper level of tariff for documentary films about and featuring composers and their works. We will not take this discussion further in the media, that is not where we negotiate or set tariffs.