(CA) Copyright Agency

Year Incorporated

1974

Year First Distribution

1989

Board Members Number

11

Author Reps Number

3

Remarks Board

Of the three author representatives on the Board, two are appointed by the Australian Society of Authors and one is elected by Copyright Agency's author members. Of the three publisher representatives on the Board, two are appointed by the Australian Publishers Association and one is elected by Copyright Agency's publisher members. There is also an elected Visual Artist Director. In addition, up to four independent directors are appointed by the Board.

Rights Holders Number

39000

Staff Number

62

National Legislation Type

Common Law

Licensing System

Legal Licence

Mandating Rights Holders

Statutory schemes for education and government use. Direct grant of mandate by rightsholders for voluntary schemes.

Reprographic Licences Types of Institutions

Universities, schools and colleges are licensed under a legal/statutory licence, and agreements for payment and monitoring are negotiated with industry peak bodies. The federal and each state and territory government are also covered by a legal/statutory licence and agreements with each government. Copyright Agency has voluntary licences with corporations, not for profit and professional associations, media monitoring services and religious organisations. There are also pay-per-use licences for text and for artistic works (primarily fine art).

Reprographic Licences Types of Uses

All forms of reproduction including photocopying, scanning, printing, photograph, upload to server, download; any form of communication include available from server, email.

Reprographic Licences Types of Works

Any form of text, including from books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and websites; all images, with or without text, including illustrations, photographs, cartoons, and fine art; surveyors' plans.

Digital Licences Types of Institutions

Universities, schools and colleges are licensed under a legal/statutory licence, and agreements for payment and monitoring are negotiated with industry peak bodies. The federal and each state and territory government are also covered by a legal/statutory licence. Voluntary schemes are in place for corporations / businesses and visual arts licensing

Digital Licences Types of Uses

Scanning, storage, intranet and internal email. Legal scheme authorises university and school intranet and other digital uses. Voluntary digital schemes include aggregated journals for subscription and transactional use; intranet, internal email, scanning and archival storage in corporate sector; scanning and emailing press clips and downstream press clip use.

Digital Licences Types of Works

Any form of text, including from books, journals, magazines, newspapers and websites; any images, with or without text, including illustrations, photographs, cartoons and fine art; surveyors' plans.

Other Agreements RROs

Following the merger with Viscopy in late 2017, Copyright Agency has agreements with more than 40 visual arts licensing societies internationally.

Other Areas Licensing

Artists' Resale Royalty Scheme

Other Licensing System

Voluntary annual blanket licences for businesses, not-for-profit organisations, media monitoring organisations and local government bodies. Voluntary pay-per-use (transactional) licences for text (principally newspaper articles) and artistic works.

Admin Percentage

17.4%

Amount Business

$7,400,000

Amount Collected Total

$127,000,000

Amount Distributed Licensing

$114,000,000

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders Reprographic

$82,000,000

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

$13,000,000

Amount Further Education

$10,200,000

Amount Government

$8,200,000

Amount Higher Education

$35,000,000

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

$4,100,000

Amount Schools

$53,500,000

Bilateral Agreements Type A Number

26

Bilateral Agreements Type A With

ACCESS, ALCS, Bonus Copyright Access, CFC, CADRA, CEDRO, CEMPRO, Copibec, Copy-Dan, CCC, CLA, CLASS, CLNZ, DALRO, OSDEL, HKRRLS, ICLA, JAC, JCOPY, Kopinor, Kopiosto, Luxorr, NLA, ProLitteris, Reprobel, SIAE, Stichting Reprorecht

Cultural Deductions Percentage

1.5

Cultural Social Deductions Percentage

1.5

Dist Method Both Specific Flag

Yes

Dist Method Full Reporting Flag

Yes

Dist Method Objective Availability Flag

Yes

Dist Method Possibility Copied Flag

Yes

Dist Method Sampling Flag

Yes

Dist Method Statistical Surveys Flag

Yes

New Developments & Court Cases

Legal proceedings between Copyright Agency and the university sector resulted in a settlement agreement in February 2023. Legal proceedings between Copyright Agency and media monitoring organisations are now finished, and Copyright Agency is entering into new agreements. The proceedings in the Copyright Tribunal relating to data collection from the school sector are ongoing.

New Developments Legislation

The current government is again reviewing potential changes to the legislation, but there are not yet any proposals for change.

Outline Distribution Plan

Distributions are based on a variety of different sources, including usage data and data about material available for copying. There are many distributions over the course of a year: for example, there are separate distributions for different sources of licence fees (such as from schools, from universities, from governments). We collect information about the agreed splits for between authors and publishers for allocations to books, and we pay authors their split for a title directly when we have the information in our system.

Publisher Reps Number

3

Remarks Cultural Social Deductions

The Cultural Fund supports projects that enhance the economic and creative climate in which Copyright Agency’s members and Copyright Agency operate and provides practical assistance to the benefit of the Australian cultural community generally. Guidelines about Copyright Agency's cultural fund are published on our website - http://copyright.com.au/culturalfund/

Remarks Financial

These are figures for July 2021 to June 2022, available online at copyright.com.au/annual-reports

Local Currency

Australian Dollar