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Payments to copyright holder in Italy rose unexpectedly (9)

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I believe the answer is:

royalties

'payments to copyright holder' is the definition.
(eg royalties for a songwriter)

'italy rose unexpectedly' is the wordplay.
'unexpectedly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'italy'+'rose'='italyrose'
'italyrose' is an anagram of 'ROYALTIES'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for royalties that I've seen before include "Appropriate payments" , "Payments to composers" , "Writer's payments" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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