session fee. There are special provisions for the repeating of educational programmes and for compilation programmes.

The agreement sets out various levels of "combined use fee" which the producing ITV company must pay to the musician within specified times in order to acquire the right to sell the programme or programmes containing the musicianâs performance overseas.

It then provides for royalties (ie a percentage of the gross receipts from the sale to be shared out among the musicians whose work is included in the programme) payable on each overseas sale.

For live performances or "as live" recordings, the ITV-MU agreement allows for the engagement of musicians for four-out-of-five-hours sessions, and specifies minimum per-session fees. For pre-recording of music (in sound only or in sound and vision), it allows for three-hour sessions, and again specifies minimum fees. It includes defined limits on the amount of music that may be recorded in a session.

The agreement sets out a great deal of detail both on matters to do with rights and their use, and to do with working conditions during recording.