NaSTA 1990: Difference between revisions

Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s the host station had to organise paying a licence fee for copyrighted music to The Performing Right Society Limited (PRS) and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society Limited (MCPS). Back in 1987, after the they realised student television was using copyrighted music illegally, YSTV had arranged a deal with them which meant that NaSTA stations could use copyrighted music if they paid £30.  Unfortunately the 1989 NaSTA hosts, GTV, did not pay the copyright fees/collect the money leading to YSTV publishing a somewhat passive aggressive article about copyright in a 1990 Conference newsletter. It was in 1990 that YSTV once again negotiated with the PRS and MCPS and got the fee down to £18 per station (or unit as they were known then!)