Royalties are payable annually in advance. A licensee whose royalty is calculated and adjusted annually therefore pays, in the first year, an amount based on an estimate of the licensee's music usage during the coming year. At the end of the year this payment is adjusted to the actual figure by reference to the return sent in by him. For the ensuing year the licensee pays the equivalent of the royalty calculated for the previous year, that payment in turn is adjusted twelve months later when the actual details can be ascertained. The full text of each tariff is available on request to the Commercial Manager at IMRO's offices.
Most tariffs provide for automatic increases in line with the cost of living.
Any member may, subject to compliance by the member with the Rules of the Organisation, require the company to grant to the member a non-exclusive licence in respect of any particular work or works, the performing right in which has been assigned to the company by such member as the composer, author, publisher or proprietor thereof of the performance of such work or works in public at any particular event or series of consecutive events. Under this procedure, IMRO may, on request within 21 days of the commencement of the show, return to members the whole or any part of the performing right in any of their works to enable members, copyright owners or authorised third parties to license certain performances themselves in particular circumstances, examples of which are set out below. Additionally, it is required that the royalty rate charged by the member will not be lower than the appropriate IMRO tariff rate, and that an exclusive licence is granted, in a defined context, for the performances which are the subject of the notice.