The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited
The first copyright collecting society set up in Australia, APRA represents 30,000 music writer and publisher members. As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for more than 1,000,000 international

APRA is an association administering the rights of the world's composers, songwriters and publishers in Australia and New Zealand.

Established in 1926, APRA represents nearly 30,000 Australasian writers and publishers through direct membership, and nearly 1.66 million writers and publishers throughout the world under reciprocal, bilateral contracts.

APRA administers the Performing Rights in music. These are the rights that, under the modern language of copyright, are those of performance in public and communication to the public. In practice, the organisation's clients are radio and television stations, pay-television operators, venues playing music and, increasingly, on-line businesses using music in some form.

APRA is non-profit making. Its twin aims are simple: to ensure that licences for the exercise of performing rights in music are as accessible and reasonable as possible - with the result that legal compliance with the copyright law is as widespread as it can reasonably be - and to ensure that writers and publishers are paid the royalties to which they are entitled as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Since 1997 APRA has managed the reproduction rights licensing business of AMCOS. The integrated business is now responsible for the collection of more than $110 million and the distribution of almost $95 million annually.

About AMCOS
The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) represents virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand and, by way of reciprocal arrangements, the vast majority of the world's composers, writers and music publishers.

AMCOS on behalf of music publishers grants licences for the reproduction (copying) of musical works.