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14th Jun 2020, 4:25 PM
	scrough No picture 'cos I'm not into 45rpm :( Member since Jan 2013 3428 Points Moderator	I couldn't understand which copyright rate applied to what, so I went back to the 1911 act itself, which commenced 1 July 1912. It seems that it was phased in: Section 19: (3) The rate at which such royalties as aforesaid are to be calculated shall— (a)in the case of contrivances sold within two years after the commencement of this Act by the person making the same, be two and one-half per cent. ; and (b)in the case of contrivances sold as aforesaid after the expiration of that period, five per cent. on the ordinary retail selling price of the contrivance calculated in the prescribed manner, so however that the royalty payable in respect of a contrivance shall, in no case, be less than a halfpenny for each separate musical work in which copyright subsists reproduced thereon, and, where the royalty calculated as aforesaid includes a fraction of a farthing, such fraction shall be reckoned as a farthing.. and then goes on to say that this rate may be changed in future subject to certain time conditions. A farthing is one quarter of a pre-decimal penny (d) and there are 240 pre-decimal pennies in a pound or 12 in a shilling (1/0d). There are a few 'ifs and buts' so you can read the complete Section 19 here Edited by scrough on 14th Jun 2020, 4:47 PM