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Copyright Collecting Societies |
Copyright collecting societies collect royalties and distribute them to members who hold copyright in film, sound recording and visual art. The societies ensure that their members collect royalties where it is difficult to do so on an individual basis, as well as provide a point of contact for people seeking permission to use material. Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS)Street: 6-12 Atchison St, St Leonards
Post: Locked Bag 3665, St Leonards NSW 2065
Ph: (02) 9935 7900
Fax: (02) 9935 7999
Email: via webpage
Web: www.amcos.com.au
By arrangement, the Australasian Performing Rights Association Limited (APRA) administers the rights of AMCOS, who represent virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand and, by way of reciprocal arrangements, the vast majority of the world's composers, writers and music publishers. While APRA and AMCOS remain independent companies, following an agreement reached on 1 July 1997, APRA manages the affairs of AMCOS and the organisations' staff and offices have been amalgamated.Australasian Performing Rights Association Limited (APRA)Street: Head Office, 6-12 Atchison St, St Leonards
Post: Locked Bag 3665, St Leonards NSW 2065
Ph: (02) 9935 7900
Fax: (02) 9935 7999
Email: via website
Web: www.amcos.com.au
APRA represents 30,000 music writer and publisher members. As part of a worldwide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for more than 1,000,000 international composers. APRA has five offices in Australia and an office in New Zealand. Each office handles both licensing and membership matters.Australian Record Industry Association Ltd (ARIA)Suite 3, Lvl 4, 19 Harris St
Pyrmont NSW 2009
Ph: (02) 8569 1144
Fax: (02) 8569 1181
Email: aria@aria.com.au
Web: www.aria.com.au
ARIA operates to represent the broad interests of its member record companies, who range from small boutique labels to large companies. ARIA performs four main functions: it acts as an advocate for the industry; it collects statistical information and compiles charts; it offers a focus point for industry information and views; and it offers a blanket licensing function on behalf of its members for various copyright users.
Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collecting Society Limited (ASDACS)Street: Room 22, NSW Writers' Centre, Callan Park, Rozelle
Post: PO Box 614, Rozelle NSW 2039
Ph: (02) 9555 7042
Fax: (02) 9555 7086
Email: asdacs@asdacs.com.au
Web: www.asdafilm.org.au
ASDACS collects remuneration arising from the blank tape levy for private copying of film and television programs, the retransmission of broadcasts by cable, and the renting out of video cassettes. These secondary use rights are collectively administered. The European societies, on behalf of the director members, deal directly with the broadcasters, cable networks and video manufacturers.Australian Writers' Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS)8/50 Reservoir St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Ph: (02) 9281 1554
Fax: (02) 9281 4321
Toll free: Available to members only
Email: awgacs@awg.com.au
Web: www.awg.com.au
AWGACS was set up by the Australian Writers' Guild in 1996 as a non-profit collecting society. The European collecting society monies that AWGACS distributes include European statutory monies for private copying (this is a levy collected by European collecting societies on every blank video cassette tape sold in certain European countries), cable retransmission of free-to-air TV, copying done by educational institutions and video rental.
Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Ltd (PPCA)Street: Suite 3, Lvl 4, 19 Harris St, Pyrmont
Post: Box Q20 QVB PO, Sydney NSW 1230
Ph: (02) 8569 1100
Fax: (02) 8569 1183
Email: ppca@ppca.com.au
Web: www.ppca.com.au
Established in 1969 the PPCA is a national, non-government, non-profit organisation representing the interests of record labels and Australian recording artists. The PPCA grants licences for the broadcast, communication and public playing of recorded music and music videos. It then distributes the licence fees it collects to the record labels and Australian recording artists registered with PPCA under its distribution policy.ScreenrightsStreet: Lvl 3, 156 Military Road, Neutral Bay
Post: PO Box 1248, Neutral Bay NSW 2089
Ph: (02) 9904 0133
Fax: (02) 9904 0498
Email: info@screen.org
Web: www.screen.org
Screenrights collects money on behalf of copyright owners in film and television when their programs are copied by schools, TAFEs and universities across Australia under provisions in the Australian Copyright Act. It also undertakes other royalty collection services on behalf of its members, including collecting royalties from other collecting societies overseas and administering similar educational copying provisions in New Zealand. Screenrights is non profit and all money that it collects is distributed to
copyright owners after the deduction of its administrative overheads only. Screenrights can also help filmmakers promote their programs to the educational sector for free through its online resource hub, www.enhancetv.com.au.
VISCOPY LimitedLvl 1, 72-80 Cooper St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Ph: (02) 9280 2844
Fax: (02) 9280 2855
Email: VISCOPY@VISCOPY.com
Web: www.viscopy.com{www.viscopy.com}
VISCOPY is Australasia's visual arts copyright collecting agency, representing 250,000 premier Australian and international visual artists. VISCOPY represents many Indigenous artists exclusively. It licenses the copyright in artistic works and pays the artist or copyright owner a royalty for the reproduction. It represents its artist members for the full range of rights, reproduction, publication and communication, thereby providing copyright users with authorised access to thousands of artistic works for commercial, non-commercial and educational purposes. Membership is free, and there are no yearly fees. Established by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) in 1996, VISCOPY receives support through the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, and is actively working towards financial autonomy. |
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