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APRA LICENCE
The NZCF has a special arrangement with the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) for member choirs for an annual licence to perform of copyright music in public.
The APRA fee is included in the NZCF membership subscription and no further charges are made by APRA unless the work is a "grand right" composition (a major choral work in excess of 20 minutes' duration). In these cases, a licence must be obtained directly from the relevant publisher.
Non-NZCF member choirs are obliged to pay an annual APRA licence fee of $95.42 and, in addition, must remit 1.5% plus GST of box-office income where copyrighted material is performed or rehearsed. This does not apply to NZCF members. The NZCF/APRA licence can therefore save NZCF member choirs a substantial sum of money – in some cases, more than the cost of their NZCF membership subscription – and also administration time.
What you need to do after each performance
Unless member choirs let APRA know what they have performed, APRA does not know which composers are entitled to a share of the royalty payment made each year. APRA requires a copy of the programme or a list of songs performed by choirs after each concert, to ensure that the licence fee is distributed to composers of songs that are performed.The information can be posted to PO Box 6315, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141 or emailed to licencenz@apra.com.au.
Should you have any queries regarding the any of the above, please visit APRA or email David Vaughan dvaughan@apra.co.nz.
APRA New Zealand
T: (09) 623 4722
F: (09) 623 2174
Freephone: 0800 692 772
Unit 113, Zone 23, 21-23 Edwin St, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024
PO Box 6315, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141
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