What’s a fair price to pay for music? In Australia, musicians aren’t getting paid as much as overseas artists for songs played on the radio
- Written by Rod Davies, Lecturer in popular music and songwriting, Monash University

The Australian recording industry recently announced a campaign called Radio Fair Play.
The campaign argues “artists and rights holders aren’t getting paid fairly for songs played on radio”, in reference to the license fees radio stations pay for the use of songs in their broadcasts.
In Australia, sound recording license...