Music Users
Licences, Permits and Other Forms
Shopping Complex
(Covers any concourse, mall, walkway, circulating area or part of the shopping centre open to pedestrian traffic)
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| 1. Mechanical Music Licence (for piped-in/ background music) | Cost |
| 1st 100 square metres | $ 157.71 per year |
| Each additional 25 sq.m. | $ 24.78 per year |
| 2. Musical Fountain | |
| Every 10 square metres | $ 63.08 per year |
| Annual licence fees are subject to a minimum charge of $250. | |
| 3. Featured Music Licence (for event, fairs, promotions carried out by shopping mall inside mall event space atrium) | |
| (a) Where mall has existing valid mechanical music licence for piped-in background playback music | Featured music licence will be $4200 a year per event space atrium |
| (b) Where mall does not have existing valid mechanical music licence for piped-in background playback music | Featured music licence will be $8400 a year per event space atrium |
Notes
(1) Applications and payments must be received by our office at least 5 working days prior to commencement of the licence year.
(2) The licence fee payable for the first year of the licence will be 50% higher where the music user has not obtained COMPASS’s music licence before performing musical works in public, without prejudice to any claims by COMPASS for past unlicensed usage of musical works.
(3) Licence fees are subject to late payment interest of 10% per annum, with late interest payment for each applicable licence year calculated commencing from the first day of that licence year.
(4) COMPASS reserves the sole discretion to decide which tariff scheme applies for the music usage.
(5) Rates are subject to GST.