GSelector provides Association Report formats to create broadcast return reports to copyright authorities and rights collection agencies worldwide. These dedicated report formats are designed in conjunction with local copyright bodies and rights associations for each region. The Association Report can be setup as a Job in the Configuration window of the Tools menu.
NOTE: The USA BMI and ASCAP reports are generated in the Export Schedule window.
Accessing the Association Reports window
Features in the Association Reports window
Generating an Association Report
Click the Interface Tab and then the Association tab, to access a screen similar to the one illustrated here. In the Regions pane, select the Region and Report to use.
Click any area in this image for help
Click any area in this image for help
Wrap, Block or Hour Grid selection
Tabbed options (vary by territory)
Enter a Date and Time Range for the selected Association Report.
Note: The Date formats may vary according to your territory. For full details on which formats are accepted in your region, contact your local RCS office.
By default the time range begins at the start of the From hour and finishes at the end of the Thru hour. Optionally, the time granularity can be changed using the Time Granularity of Scheduling and Reports option, in the Miscellaneous tab of the Setup | Station | Features window, to select the time up to the Minute or Second.
After the start and end dates and hours to Report are entered in the Date and Time Range fields, the user can define further what they want Reported. When selecting the Wrap feature the reported range will include all hours and days specified in the range. So if the Range selected were From: Sat 12/25/2010 at 8 AM Thru: Fri 12/31/2010 at 2PM the hours reported would be from 8AM on the 25th of December thru 2PM the 31st of December, but if the user were to select Block for the same range the hours reported would be only 8AM thru 2PM on the selected days the rest of the hours on the selected days would not be reported. When using an Hour Grid the user will select an existing Hour Grid from a drop-down list or use the import button to Import an Hour Grid from another station within the database. When the Grid Inclusion option is selected the hours that are selected in the Hour Grid will be the only hours included for the Date and Time range specified. If the Grid Exclusion is selected the hours in the Hour Grid will be excluded for the Date and Time Range selected.
In this pane, select the Country and the Association Report type, where more than one Association Report is used for the region. Typically this is the case in many regions.
NOTE: When selecting Canada in this field, a Canadian Parameters tab is displayed in the Tabbed Options pane. GSelector users in Canada should contact the RCS Canada office for details. See the notes on assigning territory-specific codes in this topic.
When selecting Germany in this field, a German Musikcode tab is displayed in the Tabbed Options pane. GSelector users in Germany should contact the RCS Germany office for details.
When Selecting Australia in this field, the Report drop-down has four options. The Australian APRA New Music Association Report allows the selection of a User Defined Attribute and a Report Type. The former allows you to select an attribute for use in the report while the latter provides options of 'Items' and 'Time.' The 'Items' option provides spin counts as previously shown in the report. The new 'Time' option formats the report to show total seconds for each summary which are then summed to indicate actual song runtime instead of spins.
We have updated the format for the UK PPL association report and moved it under Ireland.
In addition we added an IMRO Links association report for Ireland and an ICASA association report for South Africa.
The only report available for the United States is the DMCA report. The BMI and ASCAP reports are generated in the Export Schedule window.
The DMCA Association Report can be used to identify any songs that do not meet the following Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) performance complement rules:
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The “sound recording performance complement” is the transmission during any 3-hour period, on a particular channel used by a transmitting entity, of no more than— |
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3 different selections of sound recordings from any one phonorecord lawfully distributed for public performance or sale in the United States, if no more than 2 such selections are transmitted consecutively; or |
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4 different selections of sound recordings— |
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by the same featured recording artist; or |
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from any set or compilation of phonorecords lawfully distributed together as a unit for public performance or sale in the United States, |
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if no more than three such selections are transmitted consecutively: Provided , That the transmission of selections in excess of the numerical limits provided for in clauses (A) and (B) from multiple phonorecords shall nonetheless qualify as a sound recording performance complement if the programming of the multiple phonorecords was not willfully intended to avoid the numerical limitations prescribed in such clauses. |
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Reference: 17 U.S. Code § 114 - Scope of exclusive rights in sound recordings; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/114 |
The report will check for violations regardless of whether the DMCA Rule is enabled.
Specify a path to send the Association Report to. If necessary users can navigate to the desired folder using the More details button. The filename is normally selected automatically when the Association Report is selected. The option exists to overwrite this field is required. See the notes on using variables in filenames where these are required for details of the elements used in the filename.
GSelector offers four coding standards for use when generating Association Reports: ASCII, ANSI , Unicode , and UTF-8 . The default setting is ANSI. Consult your system documentation for details on which standard to use.
Click this button to generate the selected Association Report.
For some territories, supplementary tabs at the right of the Association Reports window allow the user to specify hours when the station takes Networked output, or to add local Identifying codes, to set the Hours and Days when reports are generated, or to optionally specify what Link Categories are to be included in Reports. Where this takes place, users should also ensure that Segments are accurately entered in the Link window Additional Information window.
GSelector provides a Save button at the top of this pane to save any changes to settings you make in any of the three tabbed options below.
Check all Link Categories to include in the Association report for this station. Then click the Save Associations button.
The Day and Hour filter is available in all territories; The Network Hours grid is only presented for specific territories. Both access a grid of 168 checkboxes, one for each hour of the day across the week. In each tab view, you can manually check individual boxes for the hours and days to include in the report. To select an hour across the week, select and click the Hour box at left. To de-select, click the Hour box a second time. To select a day, click the Day Header at top. To de-select, click the Header a second time.
The Day and Hour grid controls the hours that will be included in the Association Report for this station.
The Networked Hours grid determines which shows are local and which are networked and generated remotely.
NOTE: Due to the wide variety of different report formats for each region, the different options are only documented briefly. For full details on each region's report formats, contact the local RCS support office. GSelector users in regions which are not catered for by the options in this page should contact their nearest RCS office for information and guidelines on report formats for their country and copyright bodies.
Copyright bodies in both Canada and Germany require information to be assigned to specific local parameters in the tabbed options pane of the Association Reports window. If this information is not already specified for songs in your GSelector database, no options can be selected in the tab panes in this window. For more details, contact your local office.