• Publisher Membership: Assessment of Eligibility


  • According to the APRA AMCOS Constitution a Publisher is a company/business/enterprise that safe guards and is responsible for ensuring songwriters and composers receive income when their compositions are used commercially.

    Publishers support the careers of songwriters & composers by;

    • Investing in them
    • Creating commercial opportunities for their songs through licensing exploitations
    • Providing co-writing collaborations
    • Removing the administrative burden of song split registrations
    • Provide royalty accounting and analysis

    In order to be elected to publisher membership, the APRA & AMCOS Board must be satisfied that an applicant meets the basic criteria. Please do not apply below unless you meet the eligibilty requirements as listed on our website.

    Please fill out the following Assessment questions in order to receive application forms for publisher membership via email. Once you have returned the completed, signed and witnessed application forms, they will be submitted to the APRA AMCOS Board for review. The Board meet approx every 2 months.

    Membership is only open to publishing companies/businesses registered and operating in Australia, New Zealand or a South Pacific Nation.

    The information entered below must match information held at 
    ASIC, Australian Business Register or NZ Companies Office

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    Please answer the following questions to see whether you are eligible:

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