July 15, 2024
Copyright Agency Chair, Dr Kate Harrison, is pleased to welcome Terri Janke as an Independent Director to the Board. Terri replaces Jason Eades, who recently stepped down after six years as a director. Terri brings a wealth of experience to the Copyright Agency Board. A Wuthathi, Yadhaigana and Meriam woman and an international authority on […]
May 16, 2024
Kirsty Murray has stepped down from the Board after serving for four years as a Director. Kirsty was nominated by the Australian Society of Authors and appointed to the Board in 2020. During her time with Copyright Agency Kirsty has shared significant insight into the experiences of our author members and been a strong advocate […]
August 10, 2022
The Copyright Agency today announced the appointment of Matthew Ricketson to its Board, filling the casual vacancy for the Author Member. Dr Ricketson has worked as a journalist with the Age, the Australian, the Sunday Herald and other press publications. He has taught journalism at RMIT, was a Professor of Journalism at the University of […]
June 30, 2021
Copyright Agency Board Director, Kate Harrison, has been appointed as the organisation’s Chair.
November 26, 2020
Copyright Agency Chair Kim Williams has used today’s AGM to welcome Arthur Baker, Kirsty Murray and Richard Eccles to the Board.
September 6, 2018
In July, the Copyright Agency sought nominations from members for three elected Board Director positions – that of Publisher Director, Author Director and Artist Director. Incumbents, journalist Adele Ferguson and visual artist Dr Oliver Watts, will remain on the Board as their positions have not been contested. The two people running for the Publisher Director role are the incumbent Jane Curry (Ventura […]
March 28, 2018
Recently the National Association for Visual Artists (NAVA) General Manager, Penelope Benton, sat down with Dr Oliver Watts, the inaugural artist director on the Copyright Agency board. They discussed the benefits and implications of copyright, as well as new and existing initiatives for visual artists. Why is copyright important? Copyright is a wonderful invention, it takes […]
January 25, 2018
At the end of last year, the Copyright Agency and Viscopy formally merged. This was after a five year “services agreement” where the two organisations merged their backend operations but maintained two Boards and two separate memberships. Between them, the organisations represent around 40,000 direct and indirect members, ranging from visual artists and illustrators to […]
