Copyright Agency Limited

CAL, Copyright Agency Limited

Level 15, 233 Castlereagh Street
Sydney
NSW 2000
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9394 7600
Fax: +61 2 9394 7601
Email: info@copyright.com.au
web: http://www.copyright.com.au/

Chief Executive:
Chief Executive : Jim Alexander

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
General Manager : Caroline Morgan

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of incorporation : 1974
Year of first collection : 1986
Year of first distribution : 1989

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 10
Total number of Author Representatives :3
Total number of Publisher Representatives :3
Remarks about the Board : Of the three author representatives on the board - 2 are appointed by the Australian Society of Authors and 1 is elected by a postal ballot of CAL's author members. Of the three publisher representatives on the board - 2 are appointed by the Australian Publishers Association and one is elected by a postal ballot of the publisher members of CAL. In addition, up to four independent directors are appointed by the Board.

Members:
Total Rights holders represented : 22922
Remarks about the members : 14,987 authors and 7,935 publishers

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : Yes

Licensing system:
Non voluntary licence - legal licence
Other licensing system : Voluntary licensing for corporations, press clippers, associations, local government, document delivery and worship use.
Mandating rights holders :
Statutory scheme for education and government. Direct grant of mandate by rightsholders for voluntary schemes.

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Literary, artistic and dramatic works, including extracts from books, journals and newspaper articles, and including digital works.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): Coursepacks, document delivery, press clipping and other reprographic copying.
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Total number of licensees: 11,745. All education institutions: 9,623 schools (2,694 non government, 6,929 government), 5 school groups, 742 independent colleges, 32 TAFEs, 9 adult education colleges, 39 universities. Also licences for 536 government departments, as well as licences for corporations, associations, religious organisations, press clipping services, document delivery services, and institutions assisting the disabled.


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: Literary, artistic and dramatic works, including extracts from books, journals and newspaper articles
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): Course packs, university and school intranets and other digital uses in the education sector in reliance on the statutory licence. Voluntary digital schemes include aggregated journals for subscription and transactional use; intranet, internal email, scanning and storage in corproate sector; scanning and emailing press clips and downstream press clip use. CAL uses Electronic Use Surveys to estimate volumes and types of works used digitally. The results of these surveys are used to calculate licence fees and distribution allocations.
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Statutory: Digital reproduction and communication in education sector. Restricted mandate for government use which does include digital copying. Intranet, internal email, scanning and archival storage of works in the corporate sector; digital press clipping including downstream use in corporate sector and by government departments; and online journal aggregators.

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : Sample surveys for statutory and blanket licence schemes distributed to authors, publishers and, less frequently, rightsholder associations. Where the author and the publisher are both CAL members, allocation is to the author unless otherwise directed.
Title-specific distribution : Yes
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : No
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No
Other distribution method : methods: CAL supplements its survey data with other sources which provide an indication of usage


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 25
Bilateral agreements type A with : ACCESS, AIDRO, ALCS, CADRA, CCC, CEDRO, CEMPRO, CFC, CLA, CLASS, CLL, Copibec, Copy-Dan, DALRO, HKRRLS, ICLA, JAC, Kopinor, Luxorr, NLA, OSDEL, Pro Litteris, Reprobel, SIAE, Stitchting Reprorecht
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 8
Bilateral agreements type B with : BCOPY, COLCCMA, FILCOLS, Fjölís, JAMCOPY, LITA, TTRRO, VG WORT
Other agreements with RROs : Digital Repertoire Exchange - ACCESS, CCC, CLA, CLASS, CLL, Copy-Dan, DALRO, HKRRLS, Kopinor, Luxorr

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
AUD 121,000,000.00 (+/- EUR 92,401,680.03)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
AUD 121,000,000.00 (+/- EUR 92,401,680.03)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
AUD 118,900,000.00 (+/- EUR 90,798,014.51)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
AUD 2,100,000.00 (+/- EUR 1,603,665.52)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
AUD 112,000,000.00 (+/- EUR 85,528,827.80)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
AUD 28,000,000.00 (+/- EUR 21,382,206.95)

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
AUD 140,000,000.00 (+/- EUR 106,911,034.75)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 1.3095 AUD