FAQs for Publisher Affiliates
For FAQs About the Repertoire Payment for Publishers, please click here.
Can I send you a list of my company's published works in a spreadsheet?
Yes. Please read "Providing a Works List to Access Copyright" for what information we require.
My publishing company recently acquired a publishing company that was one of your affiliates. How does this affect any royalties you were sending them?
Any royalties payable to the affiliate will be payable to their new owners. Please notify Affiliate Services in writing of the change in ownership so that we can review and update our files accordingly.
If I affiliate, do my authors automatically become affiliates?
No. Your authors must affiliate on their own. Please ask them to contact Affiliate Services and request an affiliation kit.
Can you send royalties directly to my authors?
Access Copyright can send royalties directly to any author who is one of our affiliates. If the author is not an affiliate of Access Copyright, we send the royalties we have collected for them to their publisher for distribution. However, we can work with you to develop tools (such as consent forms and language to embed in your publisher/creator contracts) that enable Access Copyright to pay royalties to your authors directly.
How can I encourage my authors to affiliate with Access Copyright?
We can give you information to provide to your authors which highlights the benefits of becoming an Access Copyright affiliate. Please contact us for more information.
The agreements we sign with our authors provides for a royalty split for reprographic royalties that is different from what you have outlined in the affiliation agreement. What do we do?
Access Copyright can accommodate special royalty splits as needed. Please provide us with notification in writing of the special split and give us a list of all the works that would be affected by it. In the event of a dispute between a publisher and creator regarding royalty splits, Access Copyright will apply our default splits until the dispute is resolved.