PPCA Update

Update from Les Mills Australia: As an example under the new scheme a Club with 30 classes on the timetable would pay $23,400 per year to the PPCA (30 classes multiplied by $15) from the previous $1510 per year (30 classes multiplied by 96.8c) – representing a 1500% increase in annual fees. Les Mills has … Read more

Update on PPCA Case

Permission to reproduce this article obtained from Les Mills Australia Pacific Now that closing submissions for the PPCA case have finally been heard at the Copyright Tribunal, we thought it timely to give you an update on the case and our assessment of the likely outcome. Members of the fitness industry have been subjected to a large … Read more

New Video Sizzlers on tracklists

This time around our tracklists have been updated well in advance and for those that were missing our tracklists for the past 2 releases can now rest assured that they will hopefully not be published so late in the future. The latest tracklists for the Quarter 3 releases were updated a few weeks ago, however … Read more

$177.89 raised

This groupfitness.org ebay auction for Operation M.U.S.I.C. has now ended and has raised $177.89 for the cause. Thank you to all those who bid on the autographed Les Mills clothing and hopefully this auction has increased awareness worldwide about the predicament the fitness industry faces. Please keep supporting this cause by including a link to … Read more

the bid on cool stuff auction

Proceeds towards fighting unfair copyright fees  Currently there is a huge threat to the existence of group exercise in Australia as PPCA makes a move to increase music tariffs (the royalty fee that is paid for the privilege of using music in group fitness classes). Therefore Operation M.U.S.I.C. has been an initiative created by Fitness … Read more