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How one unlikely pop hit led to a music export boom – The Australian Financial Review
This Victorian performer was almost solely responsible for a 15 per cent increase in the royalties flowing to local songwriters from overseas in 2019-20.
“On the upside, that has won us a lot of goodwill from our licensees,” said Mr Ormston, who is in a long-runningfeud with Peter Strong, of small business peak body COSBOA, over how much APRA AMCOS charges for playing music on commercial premises.
Dean Ormston, chief executive of APRA AMCOS, whose overall royalty distributions were down 0.9 per cent in 2019-20 with worse to come.
Peter Braig
Meanwhile the pandemic has amplified the importance of digital revenue to songwriters. APRA AMCOS pass…
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