CAL is a not for profit copyright management organisation representing authors, journalists, artists and publishers. CAL is the agent for its members and manages their copyrights to ensure that they are fairly paid for copying and communication of their original works.

IFRRO represents copyright collecting societies and rightsholder associations worldwide. It supports the establishment of reproduction rights organisations, develops agreements among its members, and fosters public appreciation of copyright and the role of collecting societies.

Michael Fraser is chairman of IFRRO’s Asia-Pacific Committee, chairman of IFRRO’s Membership Committee and speaks at conferences on behalf of IFRRO and at the invitation of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Michael is a former Chairman of the Australian National Book Council, was a founding partner of the Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Framework Company (INDECS) in 1998, and was a Director of the Hong Kong Reprographic Rights Licensing Society from 1995 to 2001. He was a founding director of the Centre for Copyright Studies, former member of the Copyright Society, member of the Committee of Management of the Australian Copyright Council, was a director of the Arts Law Centre from 1997 - 2003, a director of the International Digital Object Identifier Foundation (IDF) since 2002 and a member of the Law Council of Australia.