Australasian Performing Right Association Limited

APRA is seeking re-authorisation to continue its arrangements for the acquisition and licensing of performing and communication rights in music. The arrangements cover:

a.   ‘input arrangements’ -

o    the assignment of performing and communication rights by members to APRA and the terms on which membership of APRA is granted and

o    APRA’s reciprocal arrangements with overseas collecting societies by which, for the most part, the collecting societies grant each other the exclusive right to license works they respectively control

b.   ‘output arrangements’ – the licensing arrangements between APRA and the users of musical works and

c.   ‘distribution arrangements’– by which APRA distributes to relevant members the fees it has collected from licensees/users.

Re-authorisation has been sought for five years.

On 5 June 2019, the ACCC released a draft determination proposing to re-authorise APRA’s arrangements, subject to conditions, for five years. A copy of the draft determination is available from the links below.

On 27 June 2019, the ACCC granted conditional interim authorisation on the same terms as APRA’s previous authorisations A91367-A91375, including the conditions of authorisation C1 to C3.