Copyright web sites

Other Copyright Organisations:

• Australian Copyright Council
• Australian Digital Alliance
• Australian Libraries Copyright Committee
• Commonwealth Copyright Administration (for Commonwealth copyright material)
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation)

• Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
  CAL is an Australian copyright management company that represents authors, journalists, visual artists, photographers and publishers to license the copying of their works to the general community. CAL also provides copyright clearances for books, articles, essays and artwork through its licences to copy.

• Screenrights
  Screenrights, formerly trading as the Audio-Visual Copyright Society, is a non profit copyright collecting society for producers, distributors, script writers, music copyright owners, rights owners in artistic works and sound recordings and other rightsholders in film and television.

• Vi$copy
  Vi$copy, the visual arts copyright collecting society, administers and distributes licence fees for the reproduction of artistic works in Australia. Members include new technology artists, photographers, printmakers, cartoonists, sculptors, illustrators, designers, craftspeople and other copyright owners of artistic works.

• Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA/AMCOS)
  APRA was established in 1926 to administer the performing right of its songwriter, composer and music publisher members. A non-profit organisation, APRA licenses music users and forwards the licence fees to copyright owners in the form of royalties. In addition, APRA manages the reproduction rights business of its sister collecting society, AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society). AMCOS represents virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand and through reciprocal arrangements, the vast majority of the world’s composers, writers and music publishers.

• Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
  PPCA is a national, non-government, non-profit organisation representing record companies and recording artists. Established in 1969, PPCA grants licences to anyone publicly playing sound recordings or music videos. Licence fees are distributed to recording artists, record companies and to a trust fund which gives grants for the encouragement of music and the performing arts.