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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.

How is GenAI being used in your workplace? Uncover the hidden risks and check your copyright exposure: Copy/Paste/Prompt: The Hidden Risks of Generative AI in the Workplace (2025) Download here Riskier Business: Do you know how Generative AI is being used within your organisation (2024) Download here Risky Business: Do you know how content is used within your organisation (2023) Download here

Home / Cultural Fund / Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund celebrates Australian literature Australian writers are being recognised with major awards celebrating stories that challenge, inspire and capture Australian life. Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund supports Australian writers through grants and fellowships, as well as major national literary prizes.

Home / Featured / Copyright Collecting Societies Code of Conduct Call for Submissions 2026 Each of the copyright collecting societies, Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (“APRA”), Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society Limited (“AMCOS”), Phonographic Performance Company of Australia Limited (“PPCA”), Copyright Agency Limited (“Copyright Agency”), Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited (“Screenrights”), Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society Limited...

Home / Cultural Fund / Miles Franklin Literary Award / Ten outstanding novels recognised in prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 longlist Perpetual, the trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has unveiled this year’s longlist, featuring ten novels that collectively offer a portrayal of Australian life in all its diversity.

Home / Featured / Our members shine as finalists in the 2026 Archibald, Wynne, Sulman Prizes We’re proud to see so many of our members named finalists in the 2026 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. These are three of the most prestigious and closely followed awards in the Australian visual arts calendar.

Home / Cultural Fund / ECU announces acclaimed alumna as 2027 Copyright Agency Grant artist Edith Cowan University (ECU) has announced Western Australian-born artist Sarah Contos as the recipient of the 2027 Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) Grant Commission, recognising her dynamic contemporary practice, autobiographical content and intuitive connection to place. The commissioned work will be developed for exhibition at the ECU City Campus public gallery from 12 February to 7 May 2027.

Home / Featured / Remembering David Malouf We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Copyright Agency member, David Malouf AO, one of Australia’s most celebrated and influential writers, whose extraordinary body of work has shaped the nation’s literary landscape for more than half a century.

Home / Cultural Fund / $80,000 writing Fellowships drive major new Australian books The impact of two of Australia’s richest fellowships for authors offered by the Copyright Agency is being brought to life through two new timely books, reaffirming the significance of important Fellowships for authors at crucial stages of their writing careers.