Like the MU Television agreement, this agreement stipulates minimum fees for the musician’s work and for all these uses of it. It also defines the conditions under which the work is undertaken: working hours, overtime payments, travel arrangements and so on. These aspects of this agreement are summarised in the Managing the People pages of this producer’s toolkit.

The ISM agreement:

(See the start of these pages for an explanation of which musicians this agreement does and does not apply to.)

As with the two MU agreements, payment of the fees specified by this agreement entitles the BBC to transmit the programme in which the musician’s performance appears, once, on one of its channels, via all its transmission platforms (terrestrial, digital,

cable), either simultaneously or at different times in different BBC regions.

Like the other agreements, the ISM agreement allows for reduced fees to musicians engaged on programmes shown in one region only. It also allows reduced fees for Schools and Continuing Education programmes.

It allows for repeat fees calculated as percentages of the original fee. For overseas sales, it allows the BBC to choose between purchasing defined numbers of television transmissions in defined territories for set percentages of the original fee, or paying royalties on all sales on the same basis as that set out in