PUBLISHER/COMPOSER REPRESENTATION
Since 1991 we have represented many Australian and overseas publishers for the collection of copyright fees for use in religious worship. We now represent over 1000+ publishers who control the rights for over 60,000 hymns.
If you would like to have us collect copyright fees on your behalf on a non exclusive basis please email us and we will send you our very simple 2 page contract which will enable us to offer copying use of your hymns to over 2000 churches through Australia and New Zealand.
Most of our licence holders have only one copying licence so if your hymns are not included in our licence then they are unable to copy on overheads or liturgy sheets and are much less likely to use your music. By signing our non exclusive agreement you are making your music available to many thousands of worshippers which will substantially encourage the sale of your publications recorded music and so on. This will provide a just royalty stream that will be paid to you each year.
All our licence holders are required to keep records of what they copy during each licence period and these returns form the basis of payments to publishers/composers. In simplistic terms if your music is used for 5% of returns then you receive 5% of the royalties collected after our collection fee of 25% is deducted.
Royalties are paid from the 1st of November each year and a statement is issued detailing the exact number of copies and net fees collected for each title. Church licence fees are based on the average number of worshippers who attend the church each week, plus we collect fees for special events from non annual licence holders.
Publishers/composers are required to advise us of all the titles they control and regularly update us with any additions or subtractions to their list.