November 8, 2021

Combating aliteracy with Australian literature

Earlier this year the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announced the Reading Australia Fellow for 2021: Edwina West from Oakhill College (NSW).

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.

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September 28, 2021

Publishers, share your content with our platform FLEX!

FLEX is our cloud-based library platform that enables educators and librarians to store reading materials and send them easily to students via secure digital links.

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September 28, 2021

Publishers celebrated at the virtual 2021 EPAAs

The prestigious annual 2021 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAAS) were held last Thursday 9 September in a free virtual event via YouTube, celebrating the educational publishing industry, whose resources are used widely across the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary/VET and Scholarly sectors in Australia.