Film Rights and Artist Royalties Associations in Australia

I’ve been doing some research and the short version is: currently there is no association which collects royalties for video producers who perform their material live. APRA collect royalties for musicians, so if I perform my own music (even if it’s ambient, minimal stuff with found sound or whathaveyou) with my VJ sets I’d get paid performance royalties from APRA, but nothing similar exists for visual performance yet.

Other useful people may be:

• Artworkers - based in Brisbane.
• ASDA - Australian Screen Directors Association - should become a member with these guys, apparently they’re making some progress on performers rights and royalties for directors.
• NAVA - National Association for the Visual Arts - apparently give advice etc.
• SPAA - Screen Producers Association of Australia
• ArtsLaw - advice and template legal agreements

28-02-2007@23:53