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.

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.

Read the call for submissions notice

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.