Register with PPCA and receive 2015 licence income

August 31 is the cut-off date for all Australian artists to register with collection society PPCA (Phonographic Performance Company of Australia).

PPCA collects licence fees from over 70,000 businesses nation-wide that play sound recordings and music videos. Its current distribution is approaching next month when it will distribute the licence income collected (less administration expenses), to registered Australian recording artists and sound recording copyright owners (usually record labels).

Artists whose music is being broadcast or publicly performed, or who hold the copyright in recordings that are receiving airplay, or who are a feature artist in a recording, are being urged to register with PPCA before 31 August 2015 to be eligible for this year’s distribution.

PPCA said record labels do not notify PPCA of artist releases or registrations; it is the artist’s responsibility.

Register at ppca.com.au/.

At the end of last year PPCA delivered $32.8M to registered artists and licensors.

Sydney-based artist Josh Pyke, who is set to release fifth album But For All These Shrinking Hearts on July 31, said in a statement: “Getting a payment from PPCA in January is always like a belated Christmas present. It's always been my aim to reinvest that kind of payment back into music, so a lot of my studio gear gets bought around the PPCA cheque’s arrival.”

Paul Dempsey, frontman and principal songwriter for Something for Kate said: “My PPCA cheque goes straight back into helping me make more music, whether it’s picking up another bit of studio gear, some wacky new instrument or by simply affording me time to put other things aside and experiment.”