Photo of TextaQueen with CAP and 4A logos.
Photo of TextaQueen with CAP and 4A logos.

October 11, 2022

TextaQueen: Bollywouldn’t opens October 22

Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund is thrilled to announce the opening of TextaQueen: Bollywouldn’t on October 22 at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art as part of the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) program. CAP is a three-year commissioning series in partnership with leading Australian arts institutions 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney), the Australian Centre for Contemporary […]

September 30, 2022

Blue Poles Park opens in Canberra

Blue Poles Park was recently opened in the new Canberra suburb of Whitlam, in a nod to Whitlam’s approval of the controversial artwork purchase by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) almost 50 years ago.

September 30, 2022

$12 million, artists and the Resale Royalty Right

The number of artists benefitting from the Resale Royalty Right continues to grow. The scheme has now reached the milestone of $12 million in royalties generated for artists, plus we see new artists come into the scheme each year – in 2020-21 over 200 artists had their first resale eligible for a royalty payment. Here’s what […]

September 30, 2022

Country to Couture at DAAF

Fine art and high fashion were one at the Country to Couture runway shows, which took place on Larrakia Country in August.

September 6, 2022

Distribution update

We have amended our Distribution Policy in relation to unpaid allocations (‘rollovers’). From July 2022 we will be including rollovers in distributions of licence fees, rather than using them to pay expenses. The net amount for distributions will be materially the same.

September 1, 2022

What Indigenous Literacy Day means to us

Indigenous Literacy Day aims to raise awareness and funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), which supports remote Communities across Australia to shape their children’s literacy future. This year’s theme is Celebrating Stories, Cultures and Languages, highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge through First Nations storytelling and language, and of keeping 65,000 years of culture […]

August 29, 2022

Celebrating 40 years of Tim Winton’s books

Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed authors, selling more than two million copies of his 29 books over a 40-year publishing career. To celebrate this milestone, 18 of his titles are being re-released with brand new covers, giving his wide-ranging backlist a bold and cohesive new look.

August 29, 2022

The timeless success of ‘My Place’

The annual My Place Competition for creative writing – jointly presented by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF), ABC Education and Copyright Agency’s Reading Australia – was inspired by the acclaimed ABC television series of the same name. It tells the story of one Australian community through the eyes of the children who live there, starting in 2008 and going back decade by decade to before colonisation.