Agency coverage

State Government agencies that are part of the Crown are able to benefit from the government’s agreements with declared collecting societies.

Contact State Records on the email below if you are unsure whether your agency is covered by the government agreements.

Agencies should also contact State Records to discuss options before entering an individual agreement with declared collecting societies.

Decentralised Billing

In 2015, the South Australian government approved the establishment of a direct billing model.

The model requires agencies to meet their own copyright liabilities. Direct billing means agencies are invoiced directly by declared collecting societies.

It also allows the relationship with those societies to remain centrally managed by State Records and the Attorney-General's Department.

Agencies will receive invoices direct from Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and Screenrights.

Copyright Agency Limited

In April 2016 a remuneration agreement was reached between CAL and the state government on a rate of $7.30 per full-time equivalent staff member (FTE) with no CPI increase for the 2015/16 financial year.

The first cycle of agency direct billing was undertaken in May 2016 for liabilities accrued during the 2015/16 financial year.

Remuneration is calculated by multiplying the agreed remuneration rate by the number of FTE staff the agency employs.

FTE numbers are taken from workforce information published by the South Australian Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment.

The remuneration rate continues at $7.30 per FTE. GST is not payable on these invoices.

Agencies will receive invoices before the end of the financial year.

Screenrights

The agreement between the South Australian government and the Audio-visual Copyright Society Limited (Screenrights) expired on 30 June 2016.  It continues for successive one year periods until either party gives notice to the other of its termination effective on the next succeeding 30 June.

Invoicing for Screenrights occurs mid year after the conclusion of the previous year's billing cycle and is calculated by multiplying the remuneration rate by the number of FTE staff the agency employs.

FTE numbers are taken from workforce information published by the South Australia's Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment.

Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)

In 2004 the government entered into a licence agreement with APRA. This agreement expired at the end of the 2022-23 financial year.  State Records is currently in the process of negotiating a new agreement with collecting agencies.

Further Information

State Records of South Australia

Phone 08 7322 7077

Email Staterecords@sa.gov.au

Page last updated: 31 October 2022