April 3, 2024
We are aware that businesses and individuals have been contacted by organisations such as Copyright Agent and PicRights in relation to the alleged unlicensed use of photographs on business or personal websites. Copyright Agent and PicRights are not law firms. They are third parties acting on behalf of rightsholders to identify and remedy the unlicensed […]
March 28, 2024
The Senate is establishing a Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), to inquire into and report on the opportunities and impacts for Australia arising out of the uptake of AI technologies in Australia. You can see its terms of reference here. The Committee has been asked to consider: recent trends and opportunities in the […]
March 28, 2024
On 15 March, publishers who successfully sued Internet Archive (IA) in relation to its ‘controlled digital lending’ program filed their brief opposing IA’s appeal. There is information about the case, and the publishers’ position, in the statement from the Association of American Publishers here. The District Court’s March 2023 decision, finding that IA had infringed […]
March 27, 2024
Copyright Agency is delighted that the Government’s extension of the artists’ Resale Royalty Scheme will provide opportunities for Australian artists to receive royalties from resales of their artworks in other countries. The reciprocity launch on 31 March 2024 comes amid growing popularity of Aboriginal art worldwide, particularly in Europe, and we’re excited to see […]
March 26, 2024
We can manage the entire licensing process – from matching the right visual artist to your project, and ethically licensing the artwork, to facilitating approvals, and ensuring the artist is fairly compensated.
March 20, 2024
The Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009 (the Resale Act) allows for reciprocal resale rights to be established with countries that have an operating resale royalty scheme and which entitle Australian rights holders to benefit. Under these arrangements, Australian artists will receive royalties when their eligible works are resold in reciprocating countries, and […]
March 18, 2024
On 13 March, the European Parliament approved the European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). You can see our earlier post on the AI Act here. You can see the European Parliament’s announcement here. The next steps are: a final lawyer-linguist check formal endorsement by the European Council publication in the official Journal (expected […]
March 11, 2024
Writer and artist members may be eligible for the Annual Writers Distribution or the Annual Artists Distribution, to be paid in June. If you have not previously received a payment from one of these distributions, you may become eligible if you register one or more verifiable publications containing your works by 31 March. You can […]
