September 30, 2022
The sixth edition of Sydney Contemporary art fair was held at Carriageworks, Redfern across 7 – 11 September 2022. Over 28,000 art collectors, industry professionals and art lovers visited the fair, to see 450 artists and 90 galleries at the first in-person fair since 2019. Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund supported First Nations Voices, Walk, Look, […]
September 30, 2022
Blue Poles Park was recently opened in the new Canberra suburb of Whitlam, in a nod to Whitlam’s approval of the controversial artwork purchase by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) almost 50 years ago.
September 30, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
