Notices for members

AWGACS subscribes to the Copyright Collecting Societies Code of Conduct, with compliance independently reviewed each year. Interested parties are invited to make submissions to the Code Reviewer regarding the period 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.

To make a submission, contact the Code Review Secretariat at secretariat@copyrightcodeofconduct.org.au. Submissions close 31 July 2026.

To read the full notice, click here.

Your payment statement for the 24-25 distribution is now available.

If you received a payment in the 24-25 distribution, you will have received your payment statement via email.
Statements are available online for payments made from December 2025. If you do not see a payment statement, this means you have not received a payment from the 24-25 distribution.
The link to view and download your payment statement is: https://members.awgacs.org.au/memberportal/login.

Please get in touch with us if you would like a statement for payments older than December 2025.

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AWGACS was established in 1996 as the copyright collecting society for screen authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Since then, we have collected over $33 million dollars for members and authors from around the world.

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COPYRIGHT COLLECTING SOCIETIES CODE OF CONDUCT - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2026

Compliance by participating collecting societies with the Code’s standards of conduct is the subject of an independent annual review.

May 21

Education giants seek midnight raid on creator rights

Joint statement from AMPAL, APRA AMCOS, ARIA PPCA, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors, Australian Writers’ Guild, AWG Authorship Collecting Society, Copyright Agency and Screenrights. The Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) is seeking concessions that go significantly further than what the Australian Government consulted introduced into Parliament. Friday 20 March 2026 – Australian authors, songwriters, recording artists, visual artists, photographers

Mar 19