Over 4500 teams and associations have received a new agreement
TONO has entered into new framework agreements with the Norwegian Music Council, the Norwegian Armed Forces Music Council, the Norwegian Jazz Forum and the Norwegian Band Association.
/ 28/03/2023 / Kristian DugstadIn recent months, TONO has negotiated new framework agreements that regulate concert performances for a number of groups in the Norwegian music scene.
– TONO works to ensure that composers, lyricists and music publishers are paid fairly when music is performed publicly. The new agreements with the Norwegian Music Council, the Norwegian Armed Forces Music and the Norwegian Jazz Forum provide both voluntary and professional organizations with good framework conditions and predictability in 2023. An important part of the agreement is that the organizations will send TONO reports on performed music, so that the correct rights holders are paid, says Geir Gaarder, Director of Negotiations at TONO.
Two agreements have been renegotiated and signed with the Norwegian Music Council. The agreements apply to 2023 and cover performing groups and organizing groups organized under the Norwegian Music Council, respectively.
There are no fewer than 4330 performing groups that are covered by the performing group agreement. The groups are members of the following organizations: Dissimilis Norway, FolkOrg, Korpsnett Norway, Norwegian Church Choir Association, Norwegian Choir Association, Norwegian Music Corps Association, Norwegian Jazz Forum, Norwegian Mouthpiece Association, Norwegian Singers Association, Norwegian Singers Forum, Norwegian Viseforum, Norwegian Symphony Orchestras National Association, Pascal Norway, Ung i Kor and Ung Kirkesang.
The agreement gives the performing groups the right to perform TONO's repertoire at concerts they arrange themselves, of course within the other terms of the agreement. The agreement requires that the performing groups send complete music reports to TONO no later than 14 days after the concerts have been held.
The framework agreement for organizing teams applies to 235 teams that are members of AKKS, FolkOrg, Klassisk, Norwegian Blues Union, Norwegian Jazz Forum, Norwegian Music Council, Norwegian Vice Forum and Norwegian Cultural Organizers.
The agreement gives the organizing teams the opportunity to arrange concerts where TONO's repertoire is performed. The teams are obliged to send complete music reports to TONO no later than June 30 and December 31 for the previous six months.
TONO invoices the Norwegian Music Council a total annual fee for both the performer agreement and the organizer agreement.
The agreement gives the Norwegian Armed Forces Music the right to perform TONO's repertoire at concerts in and outside military areas, as long as the Norwegian Armed Forces Music itself is the organizer.
The agreement applies to the Armed Forces' five professional music bands in Oslo, Horten, Bergen, Trondheim and Harstad, as well as His Majesty the King's Guards Music Troop and the Home Guards Music Band.
The remuneration is invoiced collectively to the Norwegian Armed Forces Music Department, which also undertakes to send complete music reports to TONO on a monthly basis.
TONO has renegotiated and continued the "jazz festival agreement" with the Norwegian Jazz Forum (NJF).
The agreement ensures predictability for festivals that are members of NJF. The agreement gives the festivals the right to perform music managed by TONO at concerts they organize themselves.
According to the agreement, NJF must send TONO reports on each festival's concerts, ticket revenues, etc., which will then form the basis for calculating the fee. TONO invoices NJF, which pays collectively on behalf of all festivals.
The individual festival is obliged to send TONO complete music reports within 30 days after the festival took place, so that TONO can settle the remuneration to the performed composers and lyricists, and their music publishers.
NMF's members are initially covered by the so-called performer agreement between the Norwegian Music Council and TONO. However, the performer agreement does not cover concerts with ticket revenues over NOK 50.000, national and regional events.
NMF and TONO have had a supplementary agreement regulating such events since 2009. The agreement has been renegotiated and now also applies to 2023.
The supplementary agreement means, for example, that the individual member corps does not need to apply to TONO for special permits for concerts that fall outside the NMR's performance agreement. The fee for the agreement is paid centrally by NMF.