Copyright Clearance
Index
- Australian Copyright Council
- Copyright Agency Ltd
- ARIA - Australian Record Industry Association
- Arts Law Centre
- PPCA - Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
- Screenrights
- Following up clearance for use of non-original music
- AMCOS
- DEECD Copyright Aware Website
- Copyright Permission Request Sample Letter
Australian Copyright Council
The Australian Copyright Council is an independent non-profit organisation, providing information and advice on all aspects of copyright within Australia and overseas. They provide detailed information sheets and present regular seminars on aspects of copyright nationally. Contact them if you have any queries in regards to copyright.
Phone: (02) 9318 1788
Email: info@copyright.org.au
Website:
www.copyright.org.au
Copyright Agency Ltd
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is a non-profit, member-based organisation that manages licensed copying and communication of literary, dramatic and artistic works. Their members are Australian authors, journalists, visual artists, and newspaper, magazine and book publishers. CAL acts as a channel between copyright rights holders and those who copy their works. CAL serves as an initial point of contact if, for example, you plan to set a literary work to music.
Phone: (02) 9394 7600
Email: info@copyright.com.au
Website:
www.copyright.com.au
ARIA - Australian Record Industry Association
ARIA was established and operates to represent the broad interests of all member record companies. It acts as an advocate for the industry, domestically and internationally, and collects statistical information from members and retailers. ARIA is a focus for industry opinion and compiler of industry information. If you need information about what record label/company an artist records for, ARIA is the place to start.
Phone: (02) 9267 7996
Email: aria@aria.com.au
Website:
www.aria.com.au
Arts Law Centre
The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national community legal centre for the arts. It is a not for profit company established with the support of the Australia Council. Arts Law gives preliminary advice and information to artists and arts organisations across all art forms on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters including contracts, copyright, business names and structures, defamation, insurance and employment.
Phone: 1800 221 457
Email: info@artslaw.com.au
Website:
www.artslaw.com.au
PPCA - Phonographic Performance Company of Australia
PPCA is a national, non-government, non-profit organisation representing record companies and recording artists. PPCA grants licenses to anyone publicly playing sound recordings or music videos. Licence fees are distributed to recording artists, record companies and to a trust fund that gives grants for music and the performing arts.
Phone: (02) 9267 7877
Email: ppca@ppca.com.au
Website:
www.ppca.com.au
Screenrights
Screenrights, formerly trading as the Audio-Visual Copyright Society, is a non-profit copyright collecting society for producers, distributors, scriptwriters, music copyright owners, rights owners in artistic works and sound recordings and other rights holders in film and television. Screenrights administers certain rights in film and television programs on behalf of these copyright owners, collecting fees for the exercise of these rights and distributing this money to the relevant rights holders.
Phone: (02) 9904 0133
Email: info@screen.org
Website:
www.screen.org
Following up clearance for use of non-original music
There a several steps you may need to follow:
- You will need to find out who owns the rights to both the music and the lyrics in a recording.
- You will need to write to the owners seeking written permission to use their composition in your work.
- You will need to attach a copy of their written permission to your work whenever you enter it into festivals or awards.
AMCOS
The AMCOS website has useful documents regarding music and copyright, especially a brochure entitled Music Copyright for Schools.
AMCOS conduct information sessions for schools on music copyright. They do not charge a research fee for students using the AMCOS search service to locate copyright owners of music.
AMCOS also provide a service where they will perform a search on ownership to a music title. The form for this service can be downloaded from the AMCOS website at: www.amcos.com.au/
The contact at AMCOS is Fiona Loader, Print Music and Educational Licensing Manger.
Phone: (02) 9935 7700
Email: floader@apra.com.au
Website:
www.amcos.com.au
DEECD Copyright Aware Website
There is a new site developed through DEECD called The Copyright Aware Website. It is a source of news, ideas and resources for schools on responsible information use and copyright law.
Website: www.copyrightaware.gov.au
