IMPRA
Independent Music Performance Rights Association · South Africa
We haven't checked how to join this society yet, or whether it takes this role. Its own site has the rules and the application.
Not a member? We sign you up.
Two questions. We prepare your application, check your proof and documents, follow it until you're a member, then register your songs so the money reaches you.
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Your membership plan · South Africa
We register you with IMPRA and SAMPRA
IMPRAAs a performer · one of the optionsPerformer
SAMPRAAs a performer · one of the optionsPerformer
- We check you can join and which proof of use the society accepts for your music.
- We prepare the application with you: details, documents, songs.
- You sign and pay the society's fee directly to the society.
- We follow it until you're a member, then register your songs and link each recording to its composition.
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As a performer
Your options in South Africa
Register with your home performers' society. It pays you when the recordings you play or sing on are broadcast or played in public, and it can collect from other countries where it has agreements.
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SAMPRA
South African Music Performance Rights Association · South Africa
We haven't checked how to join this society yet, or whether it takes this role. Its own site has the rules and the application.
How we chose these
Your home society comes first: it is the one you join for the rights listed. The joining details come from each society's own website, read on the date shown on its card. Countries we haven't checked yet show the society from our worldwide directory, with a link to its site.
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Why join?
Songwriters
Societies pay the writers registered with them. If you write songs and aren't a member of an authors' society, your writer share of radio, TV, live and streaming plays can't reach you. It sits unidentified until it is claimed, or is shared out to others.
Performers
When a recording you are on is broadcast or played in public, performers are owed a share (neighbouring rights). It is paid through performers' societies, and registering is how it finds you.
Producers and publishers
Master owners collect their share of the same plays through producers' societies. Publishers collect the publisher share of the songs through the authors' society. Both collect through a society membership.
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