Documentaries are booming in use in Australian lecture rooms, with royalties delivering big quantities in line with non-profit proper administration physique Screenrights.
Talking yesterday on the Australian Worldwide Documentary Convention, Screenright CEO James Dickinson stated, “In March 2020, when the lockdowns occurred, utilization elevated in a single day by 120%. That’s performs within the classroom of broadcast content material below a display license. In 2021 it kind of plateaued. However then in ’22, ’23, ’24 and now once more in ’25 it’s growing by between 20 to 40% per yr. So it’s gone from 5 million performs a yr to final yr, 36 million. Factual continues to be over half of what will get watched within the classroom in Australia. And overwhelmingly, it’s Australian content material and documentary is the only largest style.”
Final yr Screenrights distributed round $42m in licensing to stakeholders.
“That could be a report for Screenrights, essentially the most we’ve been capable of pay out in a 12 month interval, and that’s within the face of us having to fully rebuild our techniques. A 3rd of the folks working at Screenrights are software program engineers having to recreate the techniques. It’s a large funding that we’re having to undertake, however we’re nonetheless managing to get out these report quantities.”
