get a screenrights licence
Australia
Want to copy from television and radio?
Email Screenrights' licensing department to find out whether you already have a licence. All universities, TAFEs, government schools and almost all other schools are licensed by Screenrights to copy from radio and television. Vocational Education Training providers, ELICOS Colleges and other training institutions can also get a licence from Screenrights and make the most of television as a teaching resource.
Licence application forms
If you are from an Australian educational institution, you can download our licence application forms here.
Cost of the licence
This depends on how your copying and communication practices are monitored. Institutions that choose not to keep records of everything they copy, but elect to participate in a survey, pay an annual fee per student. As the administrative burden of sampling is considerably less than full record keeping, most institutions choose this option.
Institutions that keep records of every copy they make, pay a fee for each minute copied. This per minute fee will vary according to the type of program that is copied (programs that are likely to be kept as an ongoing resource cost more per minute than those that are more ephemeral in nature).
Copying without a Screenrights licence
Institutions that do not have a Screenrights licence and copy from television or radio may infringe copyright, unless they obtain prior permission from all the relevant rightsholders in the program. The practical impossibility of doing this led to the educational copying provisions being established in the first place.
Filming 'Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History', Mitra Films Pty Ltd
"Because of the Screenrights licence, we have ready access to documentaries, movies and other programming for use in lectures, tutorials and to keep as an ongoing resource at the university."
- Liz Curach University Librarian UWS
