SRB to increase nonfiction reviews; festivals, Wheeler Centre receive funding
The Copyright Agency has announced funding from its Cultural Fund to support writers via the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) and panels at seven major writers festivals and the Wheeler...
Copyright Agency grants to Castagna, Cohen, Ord, Savage
Felicity Castagna, Bernard Cohen, Mandy Ord and Ellena Savage are among the six recipients of a combined $95,000 from Copyright Agency as part of its most recent Create Grants. Castagna...
Van Neerven, Sakr to host new UQP poetry podcast
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) will launch its new monthly poetry podcast Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times on 10 July. The podcast, supported by Copyright Agency funding, will be...
Copyright Agency announces additional $125,000 emergency funding
The Copyright Agency has announced an additional $125,000 of Emergency Action Funding, to be drawn from the Agency’s Future Fund and allocated in part to unsuccessful applicants to the Agency’s...
Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne writers fests among latest recipients of Copyright Agency emergency funding
Among the latest successful recipients of the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 Emergency Action Fund are the Brisbane and Canberra writers festivals, which have each received funding to move online, and Word...
Writing WA receives Copyright Agency emergency funding for virtual book clubs
Writing WA has launched a virtual event fund with support from the Copyright Agency’s emergency action fund. The virtual event fund will enable WA writers to be paid Australian Society...
New Copyright Agency fund to support mid-to-late career authors
The Copyright Agency has announced a new fund to support mid-to-late career authors and visual artists. The Create Career Fund will offer two $50,000 rounds each year, comprised of grants...
PwC report advises against changes to copyright law; inquiry submissions published
A PwC report, commissioned for the Productivity Commission’s intellectual property review, has advised against changing Australian copyright law to the US-style ‘fair use’ approach, reports the Australian Financial Review. The...
Reading Australia website relaunched, new content added
The Copyright Agency has relaunched its Reading Australia website with a new design and new content.The website, which provides free resources for teachers to promote Australian literary works, now includes...
Copyright Agency Fellowships announced
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are: Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...
St Leger to leave the Copyright Agency
The Copyright Agency has announced that CEO Murray St Leger will leave the company in July.St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian...
Copyright Agency to offer publisher, author and copyright research fellowships
The Copyright Agency has established nine fellowships ‘to support innovation in writing, publishing and copyright research’, worth $120,000 annually.The first round of fellowships consist of four Publisher Fellowships, worth $10,000 each,...
Williams joins Copyright Agency board
Former News Limited CEO Kim Williams has been appointed as a director of the Copyright Agency board, replacing former media executive Brian Johns.Copyright Agency chair Sandy Grant said in a statement that...
O’Neill replaces Gleeson on Copyright Agency board
Journalist and author Helen O’Neill has been appointed to the board of the Copyright Agency, replacing children’s book author Libby Gleeson.‘[O’Neill] arrives at a time when there are exceptional challenges...
Macmillan Education joins Copyright Agency’s LearningField
The Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service has expanded to include content from ‘all six of the major Australian educational publishers’ after Macmillan Education signed up to the service. The Copyright...
Copyright Agency extends WrICE funding until 2017
The Copyright Agency Cultural Fund has announced it will continue its funding of RMIT University’s Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) program until 2017. The new $225,000 funding ‘will enable 15...
Seizure Viva La Novella competition winners announced
The four winning novellas in the 2014 Seizure Viva La Novella competition have been announced.Sideshow by Nicole Smith, The Other Shore by Hoa Pham, The Neighbour by Julie Proudfoot and...
Copyright Agency boosts funding to Reading Australia website
The Copyright Agency has allocated an additional half a million dollars from its Cultural Fund to expand its Reading Australia website.The website, which was launched in October 2013, provides a range...
Copyright Agency concerned about Law Reform Commission’s ‘fair use’ recommendation
The Copyright Agency has joined other members of the book industry in raising concerns about the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendation that the Australian Government introduce a broad ‘fair...
St Leger appointed chief executive of Copyright Agency
Murray St Leger has been appointed chief executive of the Copyright Agency. St Leger is a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian Publishers Association....