1. Music Copyright Issues. top
| Music Copyright Law in Australia is covered by the Copyright Act 1968. APRA is an association administering the rights of the world's composers, songwriters and publishers in Australia and New Zealand.
AMCOS on behalf of music publishers grants licences for the reproduction (copying) of musical works. |
| When you hear a song you most likely consider it one entity. You may not realise there are several parts to a song |
| There are the actual sounds themselves -- the performance of the work. |
| There are the notes that the musicians play to create the song -- they could be embodied in sheet music. |
| There are the lyrics for the song -- they can be written down on a sheet of paper. |
| A license is required to use any one of these parts in a performance. For most people requiring music components for occasional use, obtaining a license is impractical and involved. |
| Recording Studios of Australia has purchased a license to resell performing rights from the owners and producers of the backing tracks, and the lyrics which are used for the song. All royalties, license fees, production costs, and other charges associated with the production of the backing tracks are paid by the producer of the song. A license fee is paid by us to AMCOS for each reproduction of the lyrics. |
| This means you can legally use our backing tracks for your performances. You cannot use them to produce records or CDs or audio cassettes. Only for your own performances. |
| Apart from the purchase price payable to us, there are no further charges as all license fees have been paid by us and the producer of the backing tracks. |
| When you buy songs from this site mechanical copyright is paid through AMCOS. Using this site will suppport the music makers and protect producers from the damage done by sites offering illegal free download. You must not copy, give away, swap or sell or broadcast any of your purchased tracks. Doing so is an infringement of Copyright and has severe penalties. Your license grants you the right to use your backing tracks for your own performances. If you have concerns about your rights or if you know anyone who is breaching copyright, please let us know. |
Backing Music For Education |
| Many people, including educators, do not realise the use of music, composed or performed by others, is something that requires legal permission to use. |
| You cannot legally take your favorite recording of a piece of music, and use it to accompany a video project, a school yearbook, or a cable television program, produced at your school. |
| (For that matter - e.g. - restaurants cannot play CD's of various musical artists, without paying a fee for the use of the music.) |
| Recording Studios of Australia has created a library of music that schools, educators, students and teachers may use, in full compliance with all applicable copyright law. |
| Following are some of the many uses commonly used within the area of schools and education. |
| - School Yearbooks in many schools have recently gone "high tech." They produce the yearbooks with music on CD's. |
| In order to use music in this manner, a license must be secured. These licenses are generally very expensive, and not realistically possible for most schools to afford. We provide music of all genres and styles of music for schools to use with these CD Year Books, at very affordable prices. The music may be used by the school as often as desired, and complies with all copyright law. |
| - Class projects |
| Teachers sometimes assign projects that require music. These can include multimedia presentations in class, web site design, or various other things |
| - School concerts or fundraisers, choral or church services. |
| The use of music in any of these projects requires a license for the use of the music. |
| We receive many calls from teachers, students and school administrators, concerned about using music legally. |
| At Recording Studios of Australia we provide quality music, which may be used legally, for all school related projects, at an affordable price. |
2. Credit Card Terms & Guarantee. top
| Recording Studios of Australia, musicbackingtracks.com, and musicbackingtracks.net are wholly owned subsidiaries of Callsave Pty Ltd. |
| Your credit card statement will show Callsave Pty Ltd as payee. |
| We take great care to keep credit card details confidential and all information is securely held in our Brisbane office. Our concern is to protect data integrity and ensure the maximum protection for our genuine customers, against possible fraudulent misuse of your credit card. |
| Use of your credit card to pay for service is not an approval of credit. |
Guarantee |
| We guarantee using our secure forms to send your credit card information is 100% safe and secure. Our guarantee means you will pay nothing if unauthorised charges are made to your card as a direct result of using our secure application forms. |
| Since Callsave commenced business in 1993, we have never had an incident of misuse of a credit card where details were emailed to us. So you will be one of thousands who have used our application in total safety. |
| Our secure server software (SSL) is industry standard and ranks with the best available secure commerce transactions. |
| If you still do not want to send all your credit card details (for any reason), simply enter only the last 5 digits of your card and the expiry date. Then, send us a separate email with the rest of the number. |
| Our guarantee is .. under your credit card provider's terms, your bank cannot hold you liable for more than $50 of fraudulent charges. If your bank does hold you liable for any of this $50, Callsave Pty Ltd will cover the full amount up to $50. We will replace these funds where the unauthorised use of your credit card resulted through no fault of your own whilst using our secure server to send us your credit card information. |
| With any instance of unauthorised use of your credit card you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with their reporting requirements. |
3. Our Terms & Conditions. top
The following Terms and Conditions apply: |
| 1. You must satisfy yourself you know the song and artist for the backing track you order. This applies to the style, key, backing chorus, and any other effects which may have been in the original recording by the artist. We cannot legally make changes to any backing track nor can we make refunds for your individually customised order. By completing and sending us your order you agree you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions. |
| 2. We will take every effort to reproduce your ordered backing tracks to the highest musical quality possible. This is not an instant process. If you receive a backing track from us you consider defective in musical quality compared to the original recording by the featured artist, please inform us immediately upon receipt, and we will forward a replacement backing track at no further cost to you. No further liability will be accepted by us. |
| 3. Our delivery times are an approximation only. We will endeavour to provide the backing tracks ordered by you as quickly as possible. It is time consuming to manually reproduce each track onto CD or audio cassette. Where a large volume of orders is being processed it may not always be possible to meet your requested delivery date. We accept no liability for delivery at any time past any requested delivery date. |
| 4. Orders may be part processed at any time after we receive your order. Once received by us your order cannot be cancelled without a penalty. The degree of penalty will depend on the state of the order at the time of cancellation, and may be up to 25% of the order value or $20 for an order of a single track. |
| 5. Orders can only be received on our order form with the copyright declaration completed and signed. This is required for legal purposes in respect of the Copyright Act. Telephone orders will be accepted, but must be confirmed by completing our official order form and sending by email or postal service. |
| 6. Credit terms apply for school and approved institution orders. Payment must be made within 14 days after invoice date. Our invoice will attach to your order delivery. An official school order form must accompany your order to us. Terms may be available to other institutions but must be arranged prior to any order being placed. |
| 7. All other orders must be prepaid at the time of order. You may pay by credit card, cheque, or money order. Credit cards accepted are Mastercard, Visa, and American Express. Your credit card Statement will show Callsave Pty Ltd as the payee. Cheques and money orders should be made payable to Callsave Pty Ltd. Cheques must be cleared before your order is processed. |
8. You must read and agree to the providing by us of information about the customer in relation to the Privacy Act (1988). These are viewable at:
Important Information about Credit/Privacy Act 1988 |
| 9. You will indemnify us and hold us harmless for any consequential damages resulting from any action or non action on our part in the processing of your order or any advice offered by us or information provided by us. This will apply equally to any of our employees or agents. Any liability will be limited to refund of any payment made by you in respect of the order in dispute. |
| 10. We will not be liable for losses or non performance due to acts of God, police action, acts of war, or political disputes. |
| 11. Notices will be deemed delivered by us if hand delivered, faxed, telexed, or delivered by eMail or ordinary mail to the address set forth on the customer service application form or as subsequently amended. |
| 12. These Terms may vary from time to time. |
4. Our Privacy Policy top
| Recording Studios of Australia, musicbackingtracks.com, and musicbackingtracks.net are wholly owned subsidiaries of Callsave Pty Ltd. |
| This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We value our own privacy and the security of our personal information we take all possible care of information you provide to us in the course of purchasing our products or services. |
| Unless required by law to do so, we will not knowingly disclose your e-mail address or any other personal information you provide to us to any third party,for any reason. We will not rent or sell our customer database under any circumstances. |
| We add your name and email address to our mailing list when you become a customer, solely for the purpose of providing you the best possible level of service and to keep you informed of changes to services and policies whilst you remain our customer. We will not otherwise add your e-mail address to our mailing list unless you give us explicit permission to do so. You can request us to remove your e-mail address from our mailing list at any time. |
| We will not distribute aggregate statistics about our customers, users, or Affiliates. |
| We recommend you not send your credit card or other sensitive information in standard e-mail messages. Whilst we take all possible security precautions, all e-mail potentially passes through numerous intermediate relays as it moves across the internet. Not all of them can be assumed to be secure. |
| Recording Studios of Australia (RSA) maintains a Secure Socket Layer (secure server) page to place credit card orders and to email us confidential information. You should use our secure application forms and email forms provided for this purpose. |
| All credit card transactions placed through RSA are cleared directly by us through our parent Company bank (Westpac). We do not use a third party clearing house to process credit card transactions, and your credit card information will not be known to anyone except the bank. RSA reserves the right to disclose as it sees fit credit card information and related details which have been used to complete fraudulent transactions. |
| All e-mail communications between you and us are deemed to be in confidence. We will not knowingly disclose to third parties the e-mail addresses, personal information or attributable contents of e-mail sent to us unless we are required by law to do so, or we believe that the nature of the message in question may be illegal. E-mail sent to you by us is deemed to be sent under the same conditions. RSA reserves the right to disclose unattributed e-mail contents or edited portions thereof as we see fit. |
| This Privacy Statement is subject to change without notice. |
| If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: |
Privacy Manager
Recording Studios of Australia
P.O. Box 3043, Loganholme Qld 4129 Australia
Ph: + 61 7 3219 9622 Fx: + 61 7 3219 7520 Email: privacy@musicbackingtracks.net |
5. Important Information about Credit/Privacy Act 1988 top
Important Information To Applicant for Credit
(Section 18(E)(1) Privacy Act 1988) |
Note: this applies only to credit applicants. |
Notice of disclosure of your credit information to a credit reporting agency. (Privacy Act 1988) |
| We may give information about you to a credit reporting agency to obtain a consumer credit report about you, and/or to allow the credit reporting agency to create or maintain a credit information file containing information about you. |
| The information may be limited to: |
| Identity particulars your name, sex, address (and the previous two addresses), date of birth, name of employer, and drivers licence number. |
| Your application for credit or commercial credit the fact that you have applied for credit and the amount. |
| The fact that we are a current credit provider to you. |
| Details of accounts which are overdue and for which debt collection action has commenced. |
| Information that, in our opinion you have committed a serious credit infringement (that is, fraudulently or shown an intention not to comply with your credit obligations). |
| Dishonoured cheques cheques drawn by you which have been dishonoured upon presentation and which remain uncollectible. |
| That credit provided to you by us has been paid or otherwise discharged. |
| Period to which this understanding applies This information may be given before, during or after the provision of credit to you. |
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Statement by applicant for credit |
Note: Your application for credit is an agreement you have read and understand these conditions and agree to be bound by them. |
| 1. I have been informed Recording Studios of Australia may give certain personal information about me to a credit reporting agency. |
| 2. I/we agree that Recording Studios of Australia may obtain information about me/us from a business which provides information about the credit worthiness of persons for the purpose of assessing my/our application for consumer credit. |
| 3. I/we agree that Recording Studios of Australia may obtain a consumer credit report containing information about me from a credit reporting agency for the purpose of assessing my/our application for commercial credit. |
4. I/we agree that Recording Studios of Australia may exchange information with those credit providers named in this application or named in a consumer credit report issued by a credit reporting agency for the following purposes:
.. to assess an application by me/us for credit
.. to notify other credit providers of a default by me/us
.. to assess my/our credit worthiness.
I/we understand that the information exchanged can include anything about my/our credit worthiness, credit standing, credit history, or credit capacity that credit providers are allowed to exchange under the Privacy Act. |
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| If there is anything you do not understand about these provisions and conditions, contact Recording Studios of Australia for further information. top |
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