May 15, 2025
Perpetual, the trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has unveiled this year’s longlist, featuring ten remarkable novels that offer a kaleidoscopic portrayal of Australian life in all its diversity. The selected works, which include two former winners and two past short-listees, celebrate the talent and creativity of authors from across the nation and set […]
April 23, 2025
The Co-Opt Club™ is a groundbreaking initiative launched by Cotton On, in partnership with Universal Music Group, to empower emerging Australian visual artists by merging fashion and creativity. At the heart of this project lies a mission to foster ethical collaborations between artists and brands—an area where Copyright Agency plays a pivotal role. Empowering Artists […]
April 16, 2025
In the lead-up to the 3 May Federal Election, the Australian book industry is calling on all readers, writers, publishers and booksellers to stand up for books, stories and ideas. The Books Create Australia election campaign is a joint initiative by four of the sector’s leading organisations: the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the […]
April 14, 2025
Margaret Preston (1875 – 1963) is one of Australia’s most iconic and influential artists. A trailblazer in modernist painting, a committed advocate for Aboriginal art and Australian identity, and a fearless innovator in style and form, Preston’s legacy remains vividly alive today—not only in the nation’s galleries, but in the everyday lives of people who […]
April 14, 2025
Congratulations to the six shortlisted authors for the 2025 Stella Prize: Translations by Jumaana Abdu (fiction) The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (fiction) Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe (non-fiction) Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser (fiction) Black Witness by Amy McQuire (non-fiction) Cactus Pear For My Beloved by Samah Sabawi (non-fiction) Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund […]
March 31, 2025
On 20 March, The Atlantic published an article about Meta’s use of a dataset of pirated books (called Library Genesis or LibGen) to train its Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model. The Atlantic has provided on an online tool to enable writers and publishers to search the dataset for their titles. You can see the joint […]
March 19, 2025
Under the Resale Royalty Scheme, visual artists are entitled to a five per cent share on eligible resales of their original works valued at $1,000 or more in Australia, and the ability to access the schemes in participating countries when their works are resold there. As of 31 March 2025, international reciprocity will be extended […]
March 11, 2025
A new initiative launched today by Australia Reads will introduce readers to the benefits of reading through live literature events with Australian authors. A partnership with the Copyright Agency and Creative Australia, LitUp will offer funding and support for 20 communities to host live literature events with writers and illustrators, across primary schools, public libraries, […]
