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'Sole Traders Licence'
Roxanne Bodsworth
Marriage Celebrant Victoria
I contacted the COPYRIGHT AGENCY LIMITED because I wanted to be able to legally provide clients with a copy of their ceremony, including the reproduction of any poems or readings used.
The information I was given by CAL, was that 'the CAL Sole Trader license protects small traders from infringing copyright while allowing them to copy, within limits, from the copyright materials represented by CAL. The license covers literary copyright works. For example, where a musical work is copied, the licence covers only the copying of the lyrics. CAL represents over 10,000 authors and publishers in Australia and has reciprocal agreements with reproduction rights organisations in some other countries… [CAL] are thus able to offer an international range of copyright material. The licence fee [of $120] is based on a total of 3 FTE (Full Time Employees).'
Under the license, a celebrant may copy:
• one article in each issue of a periodical, or more than one article if they relate to the same subject,
• 10% or one chapter of a book,
• 10% of the pages in a collection of print (not artistic) works, as long as each work copied:
- has not been separately published; or
- whether separately published or not, does not exceed 15 pages in length in that collection of works.
• lyrics only.
I asked if the sole trader license would cover me for works by authors who are not part of CAL.
It does. CAL indemnifies the sole trader against any action taken for use of material by someone who is not registered with CAL. Because of this, the sole trader does not need to contact them for each author used.
My next question was: considering a poem can be regarded as a complete work, would the sole trader license cover me for using a complete poem or only if it is taken from a collection and can then be regarded as 10%. (Because some poems are passed around on internet sites, or sometimes they have been taken from another ceremony or passed on by someone who has a copy from a funeral they have been at and thought it would be good.)
Poems are considered complete works if published on their own, but if the copy comes from a publication of poems it would be regarded as 10%. Emailing poems or posting poems on a website without the copyright owner’s permission may be a copyright infringement.
I asked if, when presenting a copy of their ceremony to the couple I have married, the copyright information could be presented on the inside of the cover as the couple would be unlikely to want it printed on the front page.
The response was that “as long as it is somewhere on the document it should be fine”.
>The CAL contact for the Sole Trader licence is Peter Montague at
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