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Appendix 6 - Resale royalty arrangements - major proposals
Listed below are major proposals submitted to DCITA as part
of the department's consideration of a resale royalty scheme in Australia in
2004.
The Australia Council
The Australia Council supported a
model that incorporated the following features:
- a minimum price threshold of
$3000;
- a sliding scale that starts at
5 per cent and trends down to one per cent;
- coverage of all sales through
professional intermediaries;
- administration by a copyright
collecting society; and
- supervision by the Copyright
Tribunal.[1]
NAVA
NAVA proposed the following
arrangement:
- the scheme should apply to all
Australian artistic works which are resold in Australia or overseas in
countries with comparable schemes;
- the duration of the scheme
should be tied to copyright arrangements – that is, the life of the artist plus
70 years;
- the level of the threshold
should be set by the copyright collecting society (which would be appointed by
the Attorney General); and
- the royalty should be a flat
rate of 5 per cent.[2]
Viscopy
Viscopy proposed that:
- all artistic works currently in
the period of copyright should be covered;
- the duration should exist for
the same period as other forms of copyright, that is 70 years;
- an appropriate threshold would
be between $1000 and $3000; and
- the royalty should be a flat
rate of 5 per cent.[3]
Desart
Desart proposed the following
arrangements:
- a minimum threshold of $5000;
- a sliding scale stating at 2.5
per cent for the portion of the sale price up to $200 000; 0.75 per cent
for the portion of the sale price up to $500 000 and 0.25 per cent
exceeding $500 000;
- the scheme should cover all
works of fine art, craft and sculpture;
- a collecting agency should be
established; and
- the duration of arrangements should be in line with
copyright arrangements.[4]
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