March 2025 distribution: top facts and figures
Last month, we paid 111,421 members their share of £35,038,136. We've put together some headline statistics that you might find interesting.
This March, we once again paid out more money to our members than ever before, with the amount paid growing steadily each year.
What was the £35 million paid out for? We paid our members for thousands of books and articles and more than four million minutes of TV and radio transmissions.
What are the most common amounts that members receive? Most members (79.8%) received payments between £100 and £1,000. For other members:
- 15.6% of members received payments between £10 and £100.
- 4.4% of members received payments between £1,000 and £10,000
- 0.2% of members received payments over £10,000
Where does this money come from? The three biggest sources are different income streams from the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), followed by Italian TV broadcasts and income from the Educational Recording Agency in the UK.
We also paid members £516,564.16 for international Public Lending Right (PLR). PLR schemes typically pay authors when their works are lent out by libraries, although the exact nature of PLR schemes differ on a country-by-country basis. While PLR for UK and Ireland library loans is administered by the British Library, we collect money on behalf of UK authors for PLR schemes outside the UK.
