Information Sheets

About CAL and copyright

• Introduction to CAL and copyright
• CAL's licences
• How does CAL collect and distribute funds?
• How does CAL determine administrative fees?
• Ownership and infringement of copyright
• International copyright: treaties and organisations
• Getting permission to copy
• Copying print music
• Copyright for journalists
• What are moral rights?
• Copyright for photographers
• Copyright and the internet
• Protecting and offering work in the digital environment
• CAL's complaints handling procedure
• Dispute resolution procedure between CAL and its members or licensees
• Copyright terms of use for websites

CAL's licences

Business

• CopyrightAccess

One-off permissions

• Copyright Express

Educational institutions

• Guidelines for schools, TAFEs and independent educational institutions
• Copying rights and obligations for educational institutions
• How to qualify for the Statutory Educational licence
• How to apply for the Statutory and CAL Educational licences

Institutions assisting people with disabilities

• Statutory licence for institutions assisting people with an intellectual disability (pdf)
• Statutory licence for institutions assisting people with a print disability (pdf)
   
• Statutory licence for institutions assisting people with an intellectual disability (html)
• Statutory licence for institutions assisting people with a print disability (html)

Government departments and agencies

• The statutory licence for copying by Commonwealth, State and Territory Government departments and agencies
• Information for government departments and agencies who 'downstream' press clippings

Not-for-profit associations and organisations

• Associations licence

Religious organisations

• Licence for religious organisations

Press clipping

• News Access licence for PR consultantcies and marketing firms
• News Access licence for business
• Information for government departments and agencies who 'downstream' press clippings
• Information for corporations and non-government departments who 'downstream' press clippings

Membership and payment

• CAL and ex gratia payments
• Tax and your CAL distribution 
• Becoming a member of CAL
• CAL's sampling and distribution: how do they work?
• CAL's procedure for dispute resolution between members
• CAL's Distribution Rules
• CAL's New Media Licence Schemes and your works
• Distribution of statutory education licence fees: artistic works
• CAL payments for artistic works and accompanying text
• Making your claim - A guide to CAL payments

CAL's Cultural Fund and Creative Industries' Career Fund

• CAL's Cultural Fund
• Creative Industries' Career Fund

Artists' Resale Royalty

• What it means for visual artists
• What it means for the art trade
• Art Trade Checklist

Dispute resolution

• CAL's procedure for dispute resolution between members 
• Disputed Allocations Resolution Procedure (DARP)
• CAL's complaints handling procedure
• CAL's Dispute resolution procedure

If you are looking for copyright information on music, film etc, you should visit the Australian Copyright Council's website at www.copyright.org.au.