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MAY 2006 NEWS

Our fourth issue of CANVAS, Viscopy's newsletter, looks at the art world of New Zealand and also talks about some misunderstood Viscopy services, including Licensing and the Online Image Gallery.

We also have reports from our Indigenous Copyright Education Officer detailing his current projects both in Australia and New Zealand; our Licensing Manager details our work in primary licensing.

• Download the full March 2006 Newsletter here.

CODE OF CONDUCT - CODE REVIEWER REPORT

April 2005 - Review of the Code by Hon. J.C.S. Burchett, QC. (pdf 213kb)

Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies (pdf 191kb)

Licensees: Submissions for Complaints and Code Violations (pdf 5kb)

DISTRIBUTION REPORT

• Our most recent six-monthly distribution was finalised in August 2005. Over $210,000 in royalties was returned to Australian visual artists, a 6.3% increase over the previous period (December 2004)

• Indigenous artist members accounted for 16.7% of the royalty paid.

• Membership now stands at over 5,350.

Viscopy Distribution Policy (pdf 57kb)

VISCOPY MEMBERS: MAY 2006

A complete and current listing of VISCOPY's primary members as of NOVEMBER 2005 is available here in pdf.

• Download the complete listing (192kb).

VISCOPY CONSTITUTION (PDF - 408kb)

Viscopy’s Constitution has been accepted by the membership. This is a PDF copy of the constitution. Viscopy sent details of the proposed changes to Members prior to the November AGM; the constitution was unanimously accepted.

VISCOPY ONLINE IMAGE GALLERY

If you're a full member of VISCOPY, we invite you to participate in our online image licensing gallery. You can submit samples of your work to be displayed on our site. Download and complete the Image Gallery Project participation form and return it to us. Then you can submit up to a dozen or more image of work (in electronic format), and we will arrange to have this work uploaded to the gallery site. This service is available to full VISCOPY members only.

• Download Image Gallery Permission form (for VISCOPY Members)

If you are a new or existing VISCOPY client, you may find our guide to using the Online Licensing Gallery helpful. Print out this guide and keep it with you when you're licensing one of our members works.

• Download Online Gallery User Guide (for VISCOPY Clients)

VISCOPY INDIGENOUS EDUCATION OFFICER

Trevor James is the Indigenous Visual Copyright Officer at VISCOPY, a position funded by DCITA.

Trevor, of both Kaurna and Arrernte descent, will provide VISCOPY's national program of rights education in terms of art practice. Prior to joining VISCOPY, Trevor was with both the University of Sydney and the Indigenous Law Centre at UNSW as Co-ordinator for the community education program.

Trevor can be contacted by phone on 02 9280 2844 or by email at atsi@viscopy.com