Copydan

Depending on how you manage your own accounting and tax returns, you may need to raise an invoice to account for the income you’ve received for your Copydan royalties. In the first instance, please contact your accountant for advice on this if you have one.

If you need to raise an invoice for VAT purposes, please raise this with zero-rated VAT to:

Copydan Writing, Bryggervangen 8, 2.sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish VAT number: DK 18463504

You must include the following statement: “This supply is subject to the reverse charge.”

Send this invoice to copydan@ivorsacademy.com or by post to The Ivors Academy, 1 Upper James Street, London, W1F 9DE. Do not send your invoice directly to Copydan.

The Ivors Academy is responsible for making all reasonable efforts to contact rightsholders who are due Copydan royalty payments. We report the details of these efforts to Copydan.

If, after three years of trying, we are unable to reach a rightsholder, the funds owed to them are classified as non-distributable revenue.

In line with our agreement with Copydan, these non-distributable royalties may be used to support activities that serve the general best interests of UK songwriters and composers.

Copydan provides The Ivors Academy with information about rightsholders alongside the royalty funds, based on their own methods of measuring and allocating payments. Sometimes this information includes details of the specific works used, and sometimes it only identifies the rightsholder.

We cross-reference this information against various databases - primarily our membership database and PRS for Music - and carry out desk research to identify rightsholders, contact them, and confirm the correct bank account details to send payments.

We make the same efforts to contact all rightsholders, whether or not they are members of The Ivors Academy. This work is carried out regularly throughout the year to ensure that if we are unable to reach a rightsholder initially, we continue making efforts to ensure they receive any royalties owed.

As this is an ongoing agreement with Copydan, rightsholders who have not earned royalties to date may still do so in the future.

We distribute Copydan royalties twice a year – in July and again in January for any remaining balances.

UK songwriters and composers whose work has been copied in Denmark since 2015. You may be a member of The Ivors Academy or not – we treat everyone equally in our efforts to find and pay rightsholders.

Copydan Writing is a collective management organisation in Denmark that licenses the copying of text and sheet music by schools, universities, and businesses. It ensures that writers are paid when their work is copied. The Ivors Academy acts as Copydan’s UK agent, distributing these royalties.

Through an agreement with Copydan, customers can easily and legally copy text and sheet music, while ensuring that the rightsholders are fairly paid for the use of their work.

This right does not exist under UK law: PRS and MCPS do not cover the copying of text and sheet music in this way. Copydan has therefore appointed The Ivors Academy (the trading name of BASCA: the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) to distribute these royalties on their behalf.

The Ivors Academy is not a collecting society and acts solely as Copydan Writing’s agent in the UK.