April 3, 2024
We are aware that businesses and individuals have been contacted by organisations such as Copyright Agent and PicRights in relation to the alleged unlicensed use of photographs on business or personal websites. Copyright Agent and PicRights are not law firms. They are third parties acting on behalf of rightsholders to identify and remedy the unlicensed […]
March 20, 2024
The Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009 (the Resale Act) allows for reciprocal resale rights to be established with countries that have an operating resale royalty scheme and which entitle Australian rights holders to benefit. Under these arrangements, Australian artists will receive royalties when their eligible works are resold in reciprocating countries, and […]
February 23, 2024
Copyright Agency’s visual arts licensing team joined Qantas, Balarinji Design Studio, Tjungu Palya Arts and senior Pitjantjatjara artist Maringka Baker in Uluru on 23 February to ceremoniously launch the latest design in the Qantas-Balarinji Flying Art Series. At the end of 2023, Qantas unveiled the first of its new Airbus A220 aircrafts, featuring the artwork […]
February 22, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces funding of $439,840 to 27 Australian organisations for projects in 2024. The grants support projects to benefit creative writers, publishers and visual artists. In addition to this funding, the Cultural Fund will support nine national Australian writers’ festivals held in 2024. The grants will fund panel sessions and interviews with […]
February 20, 2024
One of the criteria that determines if a resale is eligible for a royalty payment is when the owner of the work acquired it. If an artwork existed as at 9 June 2010 (the start of the scheme), there is no royalty payable on the first resale of that work. This means that a person […]
February 2, 2024
The winners of the 2024 VPLAs were announced in an awards ceremony at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne last night. We were delighted to see so many Copyright Agency members recognised across the categories, with special mention to the winners: Chinese Fish by Grace Ye, Victorian Prize for Literature Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, Fiction A […]
January 31, 2024
Congratulations to our members who were among those recognised in the 2024 Australia Day Honours List, on Friday 26 January by the Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd). Copyright Agency member recipients include: One appointment as Companion of the Order (AC) Professor Deborah Jane Terry – For eminent service to tertiary […]
January 24, 2024
We are thrilled to see that former Copyright Agency Chair Kim Williams has been announced as ABC Chair. Kim was nominated by an independent panel to hold the position for the next five years. Read the ABC’s announcement here. Kim stepped down from Copyright Agency Board in 2021, after chairing the organisation for six years […]
