Members whose works are entitled to a payment are paid directly to their nominated bank account.

Refer to our Payment Timetable for payment release dates.

If you are a rightsholder or creator, you can receive a payment if the use of your work is covered by a Copyright Agency commercial licence or the copying schemes (statutory licences) we manage for government and educational purposes.

To be entitled to receive a payment, you must:

• have been a rightsholder since the work was created (be the first owner of copyright);
• have become a rightsholder by acquiring rights;
• have been appointed by the rightsholder as their agent to collect Copyright Agency payments on their behalf; or
• have been allocated a payment by a foreign collecting society under its distribution policy.