The agreement contains provisions for payment of travel and subsistence allowances.

The agreement also deals with the acquisition of the performers’ rights of musicians engaged under it, and defines the uses licensed to the BBC on payment of the basic fees, and the further uses that may be licensed on payment of further fees. These aspects of this agreement are summarised in the Managing the Idea pages of this producer’s toolkit.

The BBC deals with the MU through the Contributor and Talent Rights area of Finance, Property and Business Affairs. The full text of the agreement is held by that

department, and by the Business Affairs teams in the genre programme groups and in the Nations/Regions.

You can get advice on interpretation of the agreement from the Business Affairs team in your genre programme group or Nation/Region.

The ISM Agreement

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

This agreement caters for the engagement of the categories of musician that it covers by the day, for live transmission