CAL: Encouraging Creativity

Protection
Did you know everything that you write down or record and is your own original work is automatically protected by copyright?

You don’t need to register your work to protect copyright. Protection is free and automatic.

Respecting Copyright
Copyright plays an important role in protecting and rewarding authors’ and publishers’ creative endeavours. Ignoring copyright means you are ignoring creators’ rights and robbing them of their means to earn a living.

Infringement
Reproducing another person’s work without permission usually infringes copyright. Dealing with part of a work may also infringe copyright if that part is important to the work – even if it’s less than 10% of the work. You should always check for a © copyright notice before you use someone else’s material. But there are exceptions that allow some uses of copyright-protected works without needing to seek permission from the copyright owner.

Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is an Australian copyright management company whose role is to provide a bridge between creators and users of copyright material. CAL represents authors, journalists, visual artists, surveyors, photographers and newspaper, magazine and book publishers as their agent to license the copying of their works to the general community. We are non-profit and owned by our members.