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 14, 2022

Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund Awards Two of Australia’s Richest Author Fellowships

The Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Author Fellowship and Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writing are two of Australia’s richest grants for writers. Today, the Cultural Fund awarded the two life-changing fellowships, valued at $80,000 each, to award-winning author Mirandi Riwoe and non-fiction writer Saskia Beudel. Copyright Agency CEO Josephine Johnston says, “The Cultural Fund’s fellowships total $160,000 […]

September 9, 2022

Education Minister acknowledges crucial role of Australia’s educational publishing industry

In his address to the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards on 7 September, the Education Minister, Jason Clare, acknowledged the crucial role of Australia’s educational publishing industry. The Minister said that the Australian Publishers Association and its representatives are ‘an integral part of Australia’s education system’. He referred to the quality learning materials produced by Australia’s […]

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 5, 2022

Universities’ appeal against Tribunal decision to be heard November 2022

In May this year, the Copyright Tribunal published its decision regarding copyright fees payable by the 39 members of Universities Australia for 2019–22 (see our announcement here and the Tribunal’s decision here). In July, the universities filed an application with the Federal Court seeking judicial review of several aspects of the Tribunal’s decision (see our […]

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 […]

September 1, 2022

Sydney Contemporary’s Talk Contemporary 2022 program

Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund is supporting Sydney Contemporary’s Talk Contemporary program, as well as ‘First Nations Voices: Walk Look Listen’ at this year’s art fair. First Nations Voices, Walk Look Listen features new videos by First Nations artists whose work is showing at the Fair, enabling the viewer to see the artist talking about that […]