Annual Compliance 

Code of Conduct Annual Review Process

Compliance by participating collecting societies with the Code’s standards of conduct is the subject of an independent annual compliance 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.

Any interested party can make a submission about a collecting society’s compliance or non-compliance with the Code of Conduct to the Code Reviewer by email or by mail to Suite 704, 4 Young Street, Neutral Bay NSW 2089.

In June each year, the Code Reviewer invites submissions on each society’s compliance with the Code for the previous financial year (July to June). If you would like to receive an annual reminder of the review process, you can ask the Code Reviewer to email you in June each year.

The process is as follows:

June: interested parties invited to make submissions on collecting societies’ compliance or non-compliance with the Code of Conduct for the past financial year.

31 July: deadline for submissions from interested parties, and for reports from collecting societies about their compliance with the code for the financial year

August: acknowledgements of submissions emailed to submittors; collecting societies’ compliance reports published on Code of Conduct website

August to November: Code Reviewer reviews all reports and submissions, contacts submittors and collecting societies for any further information, and prepares report.

November: report published on Code of Conduct website, provided to submittors and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, and publicised by collecting societies. Any contraventions by a collecting society notified to its members and licensees and noted in its annual report, and published on the Code of Conduct website.

Code Contraventions

Collecting Societies are now required to notify members and licensees if the Code Reviewer finds that they have contravened the Code.

This includes:

1. Notification of the contravention published on the Collecting Society’s website

2. Report of the contravention itemised in the Collecting Society’s annual report

3. Report on this website

Collecting societies’ reports to the Code Reviewer on annual compliance with the Code

Before 2018, compliance reports were provided to the Code Reviewer on a confidential basis. As a result of the review of the Code undertaken by the Department of Communications and the Arts, societies are now publishing their compliance reports, with any confidential material (such as correspondence between a society and a complainant) redacted.

Code Reviewer’s Reports

Code of Conduct 2022-2023

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023

Code of Conduct 2021 - 2022

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022

Code of Conduct 2020 - 2021

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021

Code of Conduct 2019 - 2020

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Code of Conduct 2018 - 2019

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019

Code of Conduct 2017-2018

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018

Code of Conduct 2016 - 2017

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017

Code of Conduct 2015 - 2016

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016

Code of Conduct 2014 - 2015

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015

Code of Conduct 2013 - 2014

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014

Code of Conduct 2012 - 2013

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013

Code of Conduct 2011 - 2012

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012

Code of Conduct 2010 - 2011

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011

Code of Conduct 2009 - 2010

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010

Code of Conduct 2008 - 2009

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009

Code of Conduct 2007 - 2008

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

Code of Conduct 2006 - 2007

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007

Code of Conduct 2005 - 2006

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Code of Conduct 2004 - 2005

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005

Code of Conduct 2003 - 2004

Report of Review of Copyright Collecting Societies’ Compliance with their Code of Conduct for the Year 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004