March 20, 2026
Joint statement from local creator groups including AMPAL, APRA AMCOS, ARIA PPCA, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors, Australian Writers’ Guild, AWG Authorship Collecting Society, Copyright Agency and Screenrights Australian authors, songwriters, recording artists, visual artists, photographers, illustrators, playwrights, screenwriters and producers are in the sights of the country’s most powerful education bureaucracies. State and territory education departments […]
March 19, 2026
Surveyors play a vital role in Australia’s property, infrastructure and development sectors. Behind every subdivision, building project or land transaction is the work of a skilled surveyor preparing detailed plans that define boundaries and guide development. What many people may not realise is that these plans are also copyright works. A landmark High Court decision […]
March 12, 2026
The 2026 Stella Prize Longlist presents another twelve exceptional works by Australian women and non-binary writers. This year the Stella received 212 entries, with the 2026 judging panel comprising Sophie Gee (Chair), Jaclyn Crupi, Benjamin Law, Gillian O’Shaughnessy and Ellen van Neerven. Spanning poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction and graphic works, the 2026 longlist presents themes […]
March 11, 2026
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution, entitled ‘Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence – Opportunities and Challenges’, strongly backing the creative industries in relation to AI. Among other things, the Parliament calls on the European Commission to support collective licensing markets and strengthen transparency requirements. Highlights from the resolution are set out in IFRRO’s news […]
March 11, 2026
The report, entitled Economic and policy review of three reports on copyright and AI, critiques economic modelling in three reports published by proponents of a text and data mining (TDM) exception for commercial AI development in the UK. The report highlights that the tech companies’ modelling: wrongly assumes that copyright is the main constraint on […]
March 6, 2026
The report, from the Communications and Digital Committee, entitled AI, copyright and the creative industries (pdf here) includes the following recommendations: Rule out a new commercial text and data mining exception with an opt-out model Make transparency about AI training data a statutory obligation Create the conditions for a fair and inclusive UK licensing market The Committee issued […]
March 4, 2026
The report, entitled Content Superpower: UK publishing and the AI licensing market, includes the following findings: The AI licensing market is established, for training and for RAG. The market is growing, with the number of publishers active in the licensing market set to almost double this year. Publishers’ high-quality content is increasingly valued and an […]
February 17, 2026
Copyright Agency acknowledges the passing of Uncle Lionel Fogarty, a proud Mununjali man of the Yugambeh Nation, an award-winning poet, activist and valued member of our community. Over more than four decades, Uncle Lionel made a significant contribution to Australian literature. From his first collection Kargun (1980) to Harvest Lingo, his fourteenth collection, his work […]
