Retransmission royalties are generated when free to air television or radio broadcasts are retransmitted across a different network such as pay television. This is because provisions in the Australian Copyright Act allow broadcasts of copyright material to be retransmitted in Australia provided the retransmitter pays a royalty to the relevant rightsholders.
Screenrights has been appointed by the Australian Government to administer these provisions, with royalties payable to rightsholders in programs that are retransmitted from 4 March 2001.