St Leger appointed chief executive of Copyright Agency
Murray St Leger has been appointed chief executive of the Copyright Agency.St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian Publishers Association, has been...
Trust Company launches Miles Franklin Award teaching resource
The Trust Company, trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has launched a free teaching resource to encourage the study of Australian literature in high schools. The resource, created in partnership...
Publishers, writers selected for Creative Industries Career Fund
A number of publishers and writers have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Random House associate publisher of...
Copia to power Copyright Agency’s LearningField platform; more publishers sign up
Ebook provider Copia has announced that it is the technology provider for LearningField, the etextbook subscription service for secondary schools developed by the Copyright Agency. Mathew Barlow, vice-president of business development...
More publishers join Copyright Agency’s LearningField
Cengage Learning, Helleman Books and PCS Publications have signed up to the Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service for secondary schools. The Copyright Agency said in a statement this week...
Copyright Agency to launch etextbook subscription service LearningField
The Copyright Agency will launch an etextbook subscription service for secondary schools called LearningField at the beginning of 2014. The digital platform, which allows teachers and educators to aggregate learning materials...
Express Media Young Writers Innovation Prize winners announced
Three projects have won the inaugural Young Writers Innovation Prize, presented by Express Media for innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing. Writer and reviewer Daniel Golding has...
Copyright Agency’s Creative Industries Career Fund recipients announced
The latest round of funding for the Copyright Agency’s Creative Industries Career Fund has been announced. Writers Zane Lovitt and Samia Khatun are two of the recipients to receive funding....
Copyright Agency announces funding boost for Reading Australia initiative
The Copyright Agency has announced $266,300 in new funding for Reading Australia, a website designed to promote Australian literary works. The agency said in a statement this week that the...
ASA launches licensing program for digitised journal content
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the establishment of a licensing program to manage online sales of digitised works originally published in print journals. The DigiJournals program, a...
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple ‘demolishing’ the Australian industry, says Grant at Copyright Agency AGM
Changes to the Board of the Copyright Agency were announced at its AGM on Wednesday 28 November. Publisher director Rodney Martin stepped down from his role, having served his maximum...
Copyright Agency distributes ‘record $141.6 million’ for the year
The Copyright Agency distributed ‘a record $141.6 million’ to its members in 2011/12, according to its annual report, released ahead of its AGM to be held today. Of this, payments...
CAL becomes Copyright Agency, reveals new logo
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has rebranded with a new logo and name. ‘We’re no longer referring to the organisation as “CAL”,’ it said. ‘We’ve gone back to using a...