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Screen composers’ television copyright income is being dragged down by falling advertising across the free-to-air (FTA) sector, as well as a lack of content quotas.
Television licensing fees were the only category to fall in music licensing organisation APRA AMCOS’s total revenue last financial year. The sector now makes up just 9.3 per cent of its total annual revenue compared to 17.1 per cent in 2018-19.
APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston said advertising revenue had fallen across the FTA sector, which had dragged...