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Home / Cultural Fund / Miles Franklin Literary Award / Omar Musa’s Fierceland wins the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award Omar Musa has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Fierceland. The first-time shortlistee receives $60,000 in prize money. The award was announced at a ceremony in Sydney on Wednesday, 5 August 2026. On winning the award, Musa said: “I am honoured, grateful and completely blown away to have won the Miles Franklin Award. It feels strange and wonderful.

Is your PR and communications agency practising good copyright governance? In the Public Relations and Communications industry, it’s essential to keep clients and stakeholders informed and track the success of publicity campaigns. However, it’s easy to breach copyright laws by unknowingly copying and sharing content without permission.

Home / Cultural Fund / Three publishing professionals awarded 2026 Cultural Fund Fellowships Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has awarded Publishing Fellowships to support three projects that address important career development opportunities to benefit Australian publishers.

Home / Featured / Copyright Agency welcomes PM’s commitment to creative industries in major AI speech Today, the Prime Minister delivered a major speech on artificial intelligence (AI), titled ‘AI in Australia’s interests’. The Prime Minister outlined a leadership role for Australia on AI in a range of areas. These include resisting pressure from AI developers to change the copyright system to the detriment of people who work in Australia’s creative industry sector.

Home / Cultural Fund / Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund invests more than $680,000 in Australia’s creative future Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has awarded more than $680,000 in funding to Australian authors, visual artists, teachers and creative organisations through its 2026 grants program, supporting the creation of new work, sector development and projects that connect Australian stories with audiences.

Home / Cultural Fund / Regional Victorian teacher awarded 2026 Reading Australia Fellowship for project exploring writing in the age of AI Bri Hassett, a teacher at Gippsland Grammar in regional Victoria, has been awarded the 2026 Reading Australia Fellowship for her project, Writerly Reading: Developing Authentic Australian Student Voices in the Age of AI.

Home / Artificial Intelligence / Call for responses to short survey on market impact of generative AI IFRRO, the international organisation that represents copyright management organisations like Copyright Agency, is conducting a short survey on the impacts of generative AI. It is part of a collaboration between IFRRO and Professor Eleonora Rosati on a legal and policy study called Market Impact of Generative AI on Text and Image-Based Works.

Home / Cultural Fund / Miles Franklin Literary Award / Investing in Australian Literature: The 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist Through our Cultural Fund, Copyright Agency supports significant projects and initiatives that benefit writers, publishers, artists and the creative sector. We are incredibly proud of our longstanding association with one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes, the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Home / Featured / King’s Birthday 2026 Honours: Congratulations to Copyright Agency members Warm congratulations to our members who were recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List. Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) Gerald Murnane, for distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, and to tertiary education.

Home / Artificial Intelligence / Featured / Copyright Agency and UK’s CLA enter rights exchange agreement for AI rights On 3 June, Copyright Agency signed an updated rights exchange agreement with its UK counterpart, (CLA), to cover use of copyright works in prompts for AI tools used in the workplace. This will allow Copyright Agency’s extension of its Annual Business Licence to cover UK content authorised by rightsholders for this use, and vice-versa.