November 29, 2021

Copyright Agency Announces New Appointments

Copyright Agency Chair, Dr Kate Harrison welcomes Leslie Loble to the Board. The appointment was announced at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 24 November 2021 and is in addition to the reappointment of Jane Curry, Dr Oliver Watts and Adele Ferguson.

November 29, 2021

2022 Triennial Code of Conduct Review

In 2022, a triennial review of the Collecting Societies Code of Conduct will be conducted by the Code Reviewer.

November 8, 2021

Not Just a Piece of Cake: Q&A with Hazel Edwards and Sarah Bacaller

Hazel Edwards OAM, author of the much-loved children’s book series There’s a Hippopotamus On Our Roof Eating Cake amongst over 200 other books, has recently released her memoir,

November 5, 2021

Finalists announced for the 2021 Annual Walkley Awards

The 2021 finalists have been revealed for the 66th Annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

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October 19, 2021

Success Story: new research on rights sales shows increased demand for Australian books overseas

The popularity of Australian children’s books overseas, the strength of the Chinese language market, and increasing interest in Australian adult fiction have been driving the success of Australian books overseas. The research, Success Story: International rights sales of Australian-authored books 2008–2018, was conducted in partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts, Macquarie University and […]

October 16, 2021

Statement

On Friday, the Copyright Tribunal delivered its decision in relation to the rate that media monitoring companies, iSentia and Meltwater, should pay to use news publishers’ print and digital content in their monitoring services. The media monitoring organisations’ (MMOs) case began in 2017 following the development of a new licensing model by the Copyright Agency. […]

September 28, 2021

Tribunal update – better measurement for members

On 10 August Copyright Agency (CA) filed an important opening Position Paper with the Copyright Tribunal in support of implementing a new digital way of collecting data about the use of members’ material to teach millions of Australian school students..

Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler accepting the Daisy Utemorrah Award via video-link at the WA Premier's Book Awards ceremony at the State Library of WA.

September 28, 2021

Cultural Fund in Western Australia

Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund supports great work from cultural organisations and writers and visual artists in Western Australia, with opportunities that assist creators at different stages of their careers.

Image Credit: Image courtesy of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards of Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler accepting the 2021 Daisy Utemorrah Award for their junior fiction manuscript 'Dirran'.

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