UPDATE ON LITIGATION – The hearing with the Australian Writers’ Guild and AWGACS is being heard in the Federal Court in November. More information.
A MESSAGE FOR WRITERS – Screenrights is currently contacting writers to clarify some ambiguity between the number of registrations lodged with us by AWGACS for claims to royalties on behalf of writers compared to what AWGACS says is its total membership. Read more.
Screenrights Chair Jill Bryant announced today that she had received Chief Executive Simon Lake’s resignation. “It is with great reluctance that we’ve accepted Simon’s decision to resign to address a serious health issue.”
Congratulations to our very own Emma Madison on being awarded the 2018 Anita Prahbu Women Leaders in Business award by the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
It is with great sadness that we report the loss of our friend and colleague, Janet Keane.
The 2018 Call for submissions to the Copyright Collecting Societies Code of Conduct review is now open.
The Screenrights Cultural Fund has been established to invest in the Screen Industry in Australia and New Zealand. The Cultural Fund can support a wide range of activities, from small individual projects and events through to large-scale initiatives.
Screenrights has announced another successful year, with distribution of more than $43.1 million dollars to more than 3,000 individual members in the 2016/17 financial year.
Member relations and service design are key focus areas for Screenrights in providing efficient, accessible rights management pathways for our members in the screen industry.
Screenrights CEO, Simon Lake said “Our members depend on copyright law to ensure that they receive a fair fee for the use of their works”.
Mr Philip Argy conducted an independent review of the Express Resolution Process. Screenrights provided draft responses to the review and sought members' feedback on Mr Argy's recommendations.
Screenrights introduced the Express Resolution Process (ERP) in November 2015 to assist members with the resolution of their competing claims. The Express Resolution Process [...]
October 2017 On 19 September Justice Jago listed the matter for a hearing date on 16 July 2018. April 2017 Last week (5 April [...]
The majority of royalties distributed to Screenrights members are through the use of your broadcast content for educational purposes. Screenrights brings filmmakers and educators [...]
Take this opportunity to let us know what you're interested in hearing about. It will go a long way in helping us to improve [...]
Screenrights, Copyright Agency and Universities Australia welcome the introduction of amendments to streamline and update the statutory licence in the Copyright Act for copying [...]
Our offices had an unusual post holiday buzz last week. No slow start into the year at Screenrights! We very much believe it was [...]
Screenrights Resolution is your new online portal for competing claims. You’ll be able to explore simple and practical approaches to resolving your competing claims, [...]
It is with great sadness that we report the loss of our friend and colleague, Georgia Blain. Georgia worked with Screenrights for almost 20 [...]
Representatives of Screenrights, the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and its collection society AWGACS today concluded a second day of mediation in relation to AWG’s ongoing [...]
Our wonderful Member Relations team will be holding a number of member meetings around the country (and New Zealand) in October. If you'd be [...]
The results of our 2016 Member Survey are in (and presented below in a colourful infographic)! See what respondents had to say about us, [...]
Screenrights has welcomed the assistance of the Federal Court in reaching agreement on a timetable for mediation of the claims made by the Australian [...]
Do you have an Australian film or television project in financing or about to be green-lit? Have you considered Disbursements by Screenrights to manage [...]
Screenrights aims to provide the best possible experience for its members. Member feedback helps to guide our decisions. By taking five minutes to complete [...]
Screenrights made a submission to the Productivity Commission in response to its draft report on Australia’s intellectual property arrangements. Screenrights expressed its concerns on [...]
The 2016 competing claims deadline is fast approaching. June 15 is the last date for resolving competing claims which involve royalties subject to the [...]
Take a minute to fill out our three-question survey so that we can make the newsletter more interesting for you. Do you think that [...]
Lawyers representing Screenrights and Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and the Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) were once again before the Federal Court [...]
The March payment run saw distributions totalling $3.6 million paid to Screenrights members. 329 Screenrights members from around the world received payments. Screenrights Distribution Manager [...]
As our members may know Screenrights has six years to distribute the royalties it collects, this means that each year some royalties face a [...]
Members may have read recent claims made by AWG (Australian Writers Guild) and AWGACS (Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society) in the media. Whilst [...]
Screenrights has offered to mediate the issues raised by AWGACS. We consider it unfortunate therefore that AWGACS has initiated litigation. Screenrights pays the appropriate rights [...]
Screenrights is proudly supporting the Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne from 28 February – 2 March this year. In addition to our stall [...]
Well, we hope you're at least a little bit familiar with us already. But just in case you need to brush up on who [...]