Amateur Rights Agreement Form - Playwrights Guild of Canada

Please read our Policies and Procedures before filling out this Agreement Form.

This form is for playwrights who wish to give PGC permission to administer amateur rights on their behalf.

Name of Playwright:*
Email*
Please list your co-creators:
Co-creators are given credit on amateur rights contracts and can be included in the royalty payment plan.
Play Title:*
Play Run Time*
Notes (if music is obtained elsewhere)
PGC will administer your amateur rights on request only. The administration fee charged to the playwright is 10% of the royalties if a member, and 15% if the playwright is not a member. If you would like PGC to administer those rights, please agree below.*
- I hereby grant PGC permission to negotiate the contracts for amateur productions of this play.
A higher commission fee will be charged to playwrights who are not full PGC members.
If there are co-creators for this play, please check this box if you agree to split the royalties with them once they are sent to you first by PGC.*
- Agree
- This is not how we would like to handle the royalty payments.
- There are no co-creators for this play.
If you would prefer to handle royalty payments another way, please let us know. If you wish to have PGC split the royalties between all co-creators and send them out separately, please provide contact information for the co-creators.
If you require PGC to split the royalties amongst all co-creators and pay each person separately, we will need to ask each person for their banking information, address, phone number, and HST/GST#. Payees that are not full members of PGC will be charged a higher Commission Fee.
Do you give PGC permission to charge the standard rate:*
- Yes
- No, I would like to set my own rates.
Standard Rates are $105 for the first performance - $90 for any subsequent performances for full length plays. Your royalties are paid to you once the production closes and the company has fully paid for the rights (full payment is due one month after closing performance). You will not receive your royalties in instalments. For one-act plays, the rates are $90 for the first performance and $75 for any subsequent performances.
If you are setting your own amateur rates, please let us know what those rates are:
Do you have any additional notes?
I have read the Policies and Procedures and agree to have PGC administer my amateur rights.*
- Yes, I agree.
- No, I don't agree.

You can read our Policies and Procedures here.