{"id":6850,"date":"2024-03-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.creativecommons.net\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:17:11","slug":"submission-accc-apra-authorisation-aa1000661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/au.creativecommons.net\/2024\/03\/18\/submission-accc-apra-authorisation-aa1000661\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission in response to APRA’s latest re-authorisation application with the ACCC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Elliott Bledsoe, Co-lead<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CC Australia made a submission in response to the application by the Australasian Performing Right Association for revocation of authorisation AA1000433 and substitution of new authorisaton AA1000661.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edme-Fran\u00e7ois Jomard (Editor)<\/div>Vases, meubles et instrumens. 1-25. Instrumens \u00e0 vent des \u00e9gyptiens; 26-34. Instrumens bruyants et de percussion<\/a>CC0 1.0 Universal<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Image: A scan of a page of Impr. imp\u00e9riale<\/em> showing intricate line drawings of wind instruments. Edited by Edme-Fran\u00e7ois Jomard, 1817. View full attribution details<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The music collecting society Australasian Performing Right Association<\/a> (APRA) made an application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission<\/a> (ACCC) to re-authorise APRA’s arrangements for managing music performing rights in its repertoire. Applications for authorisation by the ACCC arise where an applicant seeks approval to engage in conduct that may otherwise breach Australian competition law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with previous re-authorisation applications by APRA, CC Australia made a submission in response to this application in which we reiterated our long-standing concern that Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0(CC) licences are still unable to be used by Australian musicians, locking them out of the most well known open content licensing (OCL) scheme. Since Creative Commons International flagged the issue with the ACCC by back in 2005<\/a>, we still believe that CC should be compatible with APRA’s licensing model. Nearly 20 years later and this issue remains unresolved. Every Australian musician should have the choice to directly licence their works, including under a CC licence, if they wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the submission we also raised again concerns with the governance of Australian collecting societies, including APRA. We recognise the benefits that APRA provides as a collecting society and that APRA has made a number of positive improvements to its operations, but that does not mean there isn’t room for greater regulation of collecting societies and more in how APRA collects data about music usage by licensees, and how this determines the distribution of royalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find out more about the application on the ACCC’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our submission is available to read online<\/a>. You can also download the submission as a PDF, a Word document or in Open Document Format below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the submission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Submission \u2013 Portable Document Format (PDF \u2013 273 KB)<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Submission \u2013 Word document (DOCX \u2013 990 KB)<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Submission \u2013 Open Document Format (ODT \u2013 240 KB)<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Image: ‘Vases, meubles et instrumens. 1-25. Instrumens \u00e0 vent des \u00e9gyptiens; 26-34. Instrumens bruyants et de percussion’ in Description de l’Egypte : ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 faites en Egypte pendant l’exp\u00e9dition de l’armee fran\u00e7aise \/ publi\u00e9 par les ordres de Sa Majest\u00e9 l’empereur Napol\u00e9on le Grand<\/em>, edited by Edme-Fran\u00e7ois Jomard, 1817. Collection: Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library<\/a>. View online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This submission<\/span> is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.<\/a> Test<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Past submissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Past submissions to APRA re-authorisation requests by CC AU or Creative Commons international.<\/p>\n\n\n\n