Generally, if a person wishes to use material where the copyright belongs to someone else, contact should be made with the owner of the copyright, see assignments and licences. Information, and in some cases advice, can be sought from the Australian Copyright Council.
In some areas there are a large number of copyright owners and rather than contacting every owner, associations (called collecting societies) have been formed to collect royalty payments on behalf of their members who own the copyright. In Australia these associations are:
- Screenrights (formerly AVCS), representing filmmakers, scriptwriters, music publishers, composers and other owners of copyright, which collects royalties from educational institutions.
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS), which acts for music copyright owners in collecting royalties for record manufacture, sheet music and some film making. (APRA (see below) manages the affairs of AMCOS and they share a website)
- Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA), which acts on behalf of owners of copyright in relation to the public performance and broadcasting of musical works.
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), which acts for authors and publishers in collecting photocopying fees from educational institutions and other organisations.
- Phonographic Performance Company (PPCA), which performs the same function as APRA but for copyright owners of sound recordings.
- VISCOPY -a copyright collecting society for visual artists.
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Acts that do not infringe copyright : Last Revised: Tue Aug 3rd 2004
