Copyright Collecting Societies
These organisations collectively administer their members' copyrights. They issues licences for use of copyright materials, collect royalties and distribute royalties to copyright holders.

• APRA (the Australasian Performing Rights Association which administers musical copyrights)

• AMCOS (the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society, which administers a different type of musical copyright)

• CAL (Copyright Agency Limited, which administers largely text-based copyright)

• Screenrights (the Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited, which administers copyright in audio-visual material such as films)

• PPCA (the Phonograph Performance Company of Australia which administer music copyright owned by record companies)

• Viscopy (the Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Society which administers copyright in visual arts such as paintings)