COPYRIGHT COLLECTING SOCIETIES CODE OF CONDUCT - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2026

Each of the copyright collecting societies, Australasian Performing Right Association Limited

(“APRA”), Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society Limited (“AMCOS”),

Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Limited (“PPCA”), Copyright Agency Limited

(“Copyright Agency”), Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited (“Screenrights”), Australian

Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society Limited (“AWGACS”) and Australian Screen

Directors Authorship Collecting Society Limited (“ASDACS”), subscribes to a code of conduct.

In its original form, the Code came into effect in July 2002. The most recent update came into

effect on 20 May 2025.

A copy of the Code is available on each Society’s website or from the Code of Conduct for

Copyright Collecting Societies website https://www.copyrightcodeofconduct.org.au/code

and can be downloaded or, if requested, a copy can be supplied by post.

Compliance by participating collecting societies with the Code’s standards of conduct is the

subject of an independent annual review. The Code Reviewer for this purpose is former

Federal Court judge and former President of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia,

The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM, KC. His current task is to review the Societies’ compliance with

the Code during the period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.

The Code allows for interested parties to make submissions to the Code Reviewer concerning

a collecting society’s compliance or non-compliance with the Code. If you wish to make a

submission, please inform the Code Review Secretariat by email [note new email address]:

(secretariat@copyrightcodeofconduct.org.au). The Secretariat will send you details about the

procedure for making a submission.

The closing date for completing the submission process is 31 July 2026.

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