CAL, Copyright Agency Limited

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

Chief Executive:
Chief Executive Jim Alexander

Key representatives:
General Manager, Corporate Relations Caroline Morgan




HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History Summary:

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
How are Board Members elected:
Remarks about Board:
There are 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.
There are 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.
Four independent representatives on the Board are appointed by the Board.

Members:
Total Number of Member Associations:
Total Publishers' associations:
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations:
Total Rights holders represented: 15951
Remarks about the members:
Direct members are 15,951 of which 9,436 are authors and 6,515 are publishers.

DATES OF FINANCIAL YEAR  July 1 - June 30

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION
Type of National legislation:

Common law

Legal system: Non voluntary licence - legal licence
Other licensing system: Voluntary licensing for corporations, and government press clippers, associations, local government 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.
Pilot Projects:

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.

Pilot Projects: Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (APRIL)

With the University of Sydney, CAL is developing a website and database to support digital trade of tailored anthologies and individual poems, podcasts of readings, interviews and associated material.

Classic Australian Works (CAW)

A print on demand service for out of print and culturally significant Australian works which was initially launched in 2003 with 25 titles. CAW is being enhanced - with new editions of the works being produced which will include scholarly introductions by literary experts, as well as expanding the repertoire of works available. The works are also available for digital supply, in addition to the print on demand model.


Other Licences

Other areas of licensing


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.
Distribution methods: Title-specific distribution, Statistical surveys
Other distribution method: CAL is developing an enhanced distribution scheme.

AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A: 22
Bilateral agreements type A with: ACCESS, AIDRO, ALCS, CADRA, CCC, CEDRO, CEMPRO, CFC, CLA, CLASS, CLL, Copibec, Copy-Dan, DALRO, HKRRLS, ICLA, NLA, OSDEL, Pro Litteris, Reprobel, SIAE, Stitchting Reprorecht
Number of Bilateral agreements type B:9
Bilateral agreements type B with:  BCOPY, FILCOLS, Fjölís, JAMCOPY, KOPINOR, LITA, TTRRO, VG WORT, COLCIA
Other agreements with RROs: Digital Repertoire Exchange - CCC, CLA, ACCESS

FINANCIAL DATA

Total amount collected for all licensing
AUD 111,200,000.00 (+/- EUR 69,500,000.00)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing
AUD 111,200,000.00 (+/- EUR 69,500,000.00)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing
AUD 109,775,000.00 (+/- EUR 68,609,375.00)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide
AUD 1,425,000.00 (+/- EUR 890,625.00)

Total amount distributed from all licensing
AUD 104,900,000.00 (+/- EUR 65,562,500.00)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders
AUD 83,920,000.00 (+/- EUR 52,450,000.00)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs
AUD 20,980,000.00 (+/- EUR 13,112,500.00)

The exchange rate of 1 January 2010 was applied, being EUR 1=1.6000 AUD