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Copyright Agency members can elect to participate in any of our three groups of licence schemes: the statutory licence schemes, the new media licence schemes and the commercial reproduction licence schemes.

 

Please contact Copyright Agency's Member Services department if you require further information on your licence scheme participation. Phone 1800 066 844 (within Australia) or +61 2 9394 7600. Alternatively, you can complete the online membership enquiry form.

These are the compulsory schemes created by the Copyright Act 1968 under which a specified class of user may reproduce and communicate copyright works for specified purposes, subject to certain conditions, including payment. Authorised users include educational institutions and federal, state and territory governments.

 

The Copyright Agency corporate licence allows Australian businesses to use works owned by Copyright Agency members in return for a licence fee. The licence, known as CopyrightAccess, is designed to support the proper use and distribution of copyright-protected works in business and covers the digital use of works.

 

The rights granted under this licence include printing and photocopying, internal electronic use (email, intranet archiving etc), supply to regulatory authorities, inclusion in Powerpoints and other presentations and particular permissions for pharmaceutical and health care licensees.

 

Coyright Agency is working with an array of partners in the new digital technology and publishing sectors to develop and expand online use of our members’ works.

 

The partnerships have seen the development of a number of New Media Licence Schemes that promote compliant use of digital material and provide customers with easy access to a wealth of digital content.

 

Copyright Agency provides digital rights management for our members in the following schemes:

 

INFORMIT Collections
copyright Agency provides rights management services to Informit Collections which is a collection of online publications compiled and offered by RMIT Publishing.

It is a subscription-only service offering full text, cover-to-cover pdf access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, reports and other research materials.

 

1.   APA-FT
Based on the Australian Public Affairs Information Service compiled by the National Library of Australia, this full-text database provides subscription access to articles in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text is available for material from 1995 onwards. A pay-per-view service was launched in 2004.

 

2.   AGIS Plus Text
Based on the Attorney-General’s Information Service, this valuable online resource provides subscribers with online subscription access to material of relevance to Australian law. Full-text is available for material from 1999 onwards. A pay-per-view service was launched in 2004.

3. A+ Education
Provides access to articles from more than 130 Australian journals indexed in the Australian Education Index produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

 

ACER's Complete Article Service 
Copyright Agency provides rights management services for the Complete Article Service offered and administered by the Cunningham Library of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

New Online Content Models
Copyright Agency, in partnership with our members, is also developing a number of online content services to pilot new ways of distributing works in the expanding market. For further information about these schemes, please contact us.

Why participate in these projects?

Through these licence schemes Copyright Agency helps members find new markets and additional revenue streams.

 

Copyright Agency provides publishers with an opportunity for distribution of their content in the expanding online marketplace.

 

New technologies make it easier to digitally copy and exchange material without payment to copyright owners. Copyright Agency is a trusted partner in working to secure downstream benefits for the use of published works that would otherwise show no revenue returns.

 

Copyright Agency negotiates with the major content aggregators on behalf of all participating members to achieve the best possible financial return. Acting for many individual publishers adds considerably to Copyright Ageny's negotiating position. Hundreds of journals and thousands of articles are included.

 

Copyright Agency monitors use and manages the collection and payment to all the individual participating members consistent with Copyright Agency's trusted distribution policies. 

 

Copyright Agency's Commercial Reproduction Licence Schemes currently include licence schemes which grant reproduction rights only. Understandably, the number of licensees for these schemes decreases each year, as most licensee organisations seek authorisation for email and communication use. These licences are offered to the corporate, document delivery, local government, press clipping, not-for-profit associations and funeral director licence sectors.

Updated 14 October 2011.