Nicht registrierte Künstler verlieren Aufführungsvergütungen

Definition

PPCA distributes performance royalties for sound recordings at the end of each financial year, allocating income on a track‑by‑track basis and then sharing the Australian repertoire balance 50/50 between featured artists and labels.[3] Featured Australian artists must lodge a direct artist registration to access their 50% income share; if they fail to register, their entire artist share together with the label’s 50% is paid directly to the label.[3] This creates systematic revenue leakage for artists who do not understand or complete the registration process and for labels that lack processes to push artists to register or to contractually pass through these royalties. For a mid‑catalogue artist whose recordings generate, for example, AUD 20,000 in PPCA‑allocable performance royalties annually, failure to register can forfeit approximately AUD 10,000 per year to the label, multiplied across multi‑year catalogue exploitation. Across a roster of 20 such artists, a label group could be sitting on AUD 200,000 per year of unclaimed performer share that never reaches artists, which is a reputational and contractual risk if challenged. Conversely, from the artists’ perspective this is a pure revenue leakage resulting from administrative non‑compliance rather than lack of usage.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Sound recording artists in Australia 🇦🇺 lose up to 50% of eligible PPCA performance royalties on each track when registrations are missed. Automation of artist and track registration with PPCA and label reconciliation eliminates this leakage.

Affected Stakeholders

Featured recording artists, Record label royalty departments, Artist managers, Entertainment accountants

Related Business Risks