{{Short description|Australian copyright agency}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{use Australian English|date=July 2021}} right|200px '''Copyright Agency Ltd''' ('''CAL''') is an Australian not-for-profit<ref name=about>{{cite web | title=About Us | website=Copyright Agency | date=2021 | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/about-us/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> public company<ref name=abncurrent>{{cite web | title=Current details for ABN 53 001 228 799 | website=ABN Lookup | url=https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=53001228799 | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> that facilitates reuse of copyrighted material by third parties, collecting fees and delivering the payments to the creators.<ref name=about/> Its business names include '''Viscopy''', '''Rightsportal''' and '''Smarteditions'''.<ref name= abnhist>{{cite web | title=Historical details for ABN 53 001 228 799 | website=ABN Lookup | url=https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=53001228799 | access-date=11 July 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711103217/https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=53001228799| archive-date=11 July 2021| url-status=live}}</ref>
It is officially appointed by the Australian Government to administer the management and payment of royalties to creators, including acting for educational institutions.
==History== On 2 July 2012, Copyright Agency and Viscopy (formerly Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Agency or VISCOPY<ref>{{cite web | title=Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Agency (VISCOPY) | website=Arts Law Centre of Australia | date=18 February 2011 | url=https://www.artslaw.com.au/organisations/viscopy/ | access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>) entered into an arrangement whereby Copyright Agency would manage Viscopy’s business.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://art.base.co/news_story/471-viscopy-and-copyright-agency-merge-kind-of| title=Viscopy and Copyright Agency merge (kind of)| first= Rebecca Gabrielle|last= Cannon |date=30 July 2012}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web | title= About Us | website=Viscopy | date=2 April 2015 | url=https://viscopy.net.au/about-us/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402232839/https://viscopy.net.au/about-us/ | archive-date=2 April 2015 | url-status=dead | access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>
On 30 November 2017, Viscopy merged fully with Copyright Agency.<ref>{{cite web | title=Green light for Copyright Agency and Viscopy merger | website=Copyright Agency | date=8 November 2017 | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/2017/11/members-benefit-copyright-agencys-merger-viscopy/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref><ref name=jfa>{{cite web | title=About | website=John Fries Award | date=17 May 2021 | url=http://www.johnfriesaward.com/about/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> This name is still retained as a trading name.<ref name=abnhist/>
==What it does== The company has been officially appointed by the Australian Government to manage the Australian education copying scheme, under the Statutory Education Licence.<ref>{{cite web | title=Education | website=Copyright Agency | date=7 April 2021 | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/licences-permission/educational-licences/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> It also manages the Commonwealth, State and Territory government copying schemes and the Resale Royalty Scheme for artists.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resale Royalty Scheme | website=Copyright Agency | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/about-copyright/resale-royalty-scheme/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref>
Educational institutions (or a body administering an educational institution) may claim a Statutory Educational licence under Part VB of the ''Copyright Act 1968''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2008C00593|title=Copyright Act 1968|date=10 November 2008|accessdate=20 March 2018|publisher=Australia Government - Federal Register of Legislation}}</ref> by: # publishing a notice in the ''Commonwealth of Australia Gazette'' (universities, TAFE institutes, full-time primary and secondary schools, pre-schools and kindergartens are exempt from this requirement); and # Completing the Statutory Educational license notice and returning to CAL; and # Entering into a CAL Educational license by completing the agreement and returning to CAL.<ref name=howto>{{cite web|url=http://www.copyright.com.au/info%2520sheets/CR11_how%2520to%2520apply%2520stat%2520edu%2Epdf |accessdate=8 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719170446/http://www.copyright.com.au/info%20sheets/CR11_how%20to%20apply%20stat%20edu.pdf |archivedate=19 July 2008|title=How to apply for the Statutory Educational and CAL Educational licences}}</ref>
An annual fee is payable by participating educational institutions based on estimated usage of copyright material, usually determined by student numbers.<ref name=howto/>
==John Fries Award== <!---John Fries Award redirects here.---> The John Fries Award was established in 2010, named in honour former Viscopy director and honorary treasurer, John Fries. Awarded annually to an emerging visual artists, it is a non-acquisitive art prize worth {{AUD|10,000}},<ref name="jfa" /> sponsored by the CAL Cultural Fund, UNSW Galleries and Art Van Go.<ref >{{cite web | title=Our sponsors | website=John Fries Award | date=25 June 2020 | url=http://www.johnfriesaward.com/sponsorship/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref>
==Copyright Agency Partnerships== <!---redirects target this section.---> In April 2021, the Copyright Agency’s cultural fund announced the launch of a Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) three-year artistic commission series, in partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. The commissions, worth {{AUD|80,000}}, are designed to support mid-career and established visual artists with a commission as well as a solo exhibition, and will run for three years (2021–2024). The granting of the award is judged by representatives of the three institutions and an independent peer.<ref>{{cite web | title=Copyright Agency Partnerships | website=Copyright Agency | date=28 June 2021 | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/culturalfund/copyright-agency-partnerships/ | access-date=19 September 2021}}</ref> The inaugural winner of the award was TextaQueen, whose project ''Bollywouldn’t'' will be exhibited at A4 in 2022.<ref name=cap>{{cite web | title=TextaQueen is awarded the inaugural Copyright Agency Partnerships $80,000 commission with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art | website=Copyright Agency | date=10 August 2021 | url=https://www.copyright.com.au/2021/08/textaqueen-is-awarded-the-inaugural-copyright-agency-partnerships-80000-commission-with-4a-centre-for-contemporary-asian-art/ | access-date=19 September 2021}}</ref>
==Commentary== Nicholas Gruen commented in 2008 that the cash-strapped educational sector was paying unnecessarily high royalties to CAL, and suggested that a public subsidy to content creators. He also criticised CAL for seeking royalties from for old surveyors' maps held in the New South Wales Government's land registry, for which surveyors have already been paid and which had been deposited on the public record and therefore free for use.<ref name="Club Troppo 2008">{{cite web | title=The lawyers creating unnecessary intellectual property rents – again | website=Club Troppo | date=12 August 2008 | url=https://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/08/12/the-lawyers-creating-unnecessary-intellectual-property-rents-again/ | access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref>
== See also == * Australian Copyright Council * Copyright agency * Copyright law of Australia
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.copyright.com.au}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090716062035/http://www.copyright.com.au/Copyright_Users/Education/Education.aspx Copying Rights for Educational Institutions]
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