June 28, 2018

Cultural Fund grants for Unis and academics

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has granted tens of millions of dollars to the academic community since inception. In the last decade, we’ve provided millions to universities through programs such as: Deakin University’s research into adolescent reading habits UNSW Press’s Bragg Prize for best Australian science writing Griffith University’s Griffith Review UTS and Uni of […]

June 28, 2018

Introducing Flex

The Copyright Agency has worked with British company Kortext to develop a new online product called Flex, which makes the task of preparing reading material simpler and faster for librarians and lecturers. Flex would work seamlessly with our existing licence agreement with UA, which provides use of enormous amounts of copyright material from anywhere in […]

June 28, 2018

A new way forward with universities

Copyright Agency and Universities Australia, representing 39 universities, have started negotiations on a new licensing agreement. For us and our members this is our second largest licence agreement, valued at over $30m per annum, and we are keen to work with UA to ensure its continued success. This blanket copyright licence allows university teachers and […]

June 28, 2018

Q&A with Trinity Grammar School’s Librarian

Leanne Heanly is the Teaching and Learning Librarian at Trinity Grammar School. In early 2018 she organised a school-based campaign inspired by the Copyright Agency’s This Book Changed My Life campaign. 1. Why did you want to get your students involved in the This Book Changed My Life campaign? We wanted to start the conversation […]

June 22, 2018

NSW Government non-payment: an update from our CEO

Dear members, I wanted to update you on our copyright dispute with the NSW Government over non-payment of licence fees for over five years. We participated in mediation on Wednesday (20 June) but were regrettably unable to reach agreement. This means that the dispute will now be heard by the Copyright Tribunal. As I have said […]

June 22, 2018

LearningField welcomes publisher Jacaranda to its world-first online textbook platform

High school teachers will have access to an even greater choice of books when award-winning educational publisher Jacaranda joins the Copyright Agency’s innovative digital textbook platform LearningField. The addition of Jacaranda to LearningField means teachers now have access to the resources of 20 of Australia’s best educational publishers. In the past 12 months alone, seven […]

June 19, 2018

Barnes weighs in on push for payment

Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes has joined the push for the NSW government to pay creators the millions of dollars owed to them in copyright fees. Read the story in the Daily Telegraph.

June 18, 2018

Authors demand NSW government pay copyright fees

Authors are calling for the NSW government to pay a fair fee for using their material. Read the story in the Daily Telegraph.