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BREAKING: Amplify Announced
NZ’s Creative & Cultural Sector Strategy Confirmed Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand is a national strategy that outlines how the government will prioritise support for our creative and cultural sectors to 2030. Amplify is a national strategy that shows how government will help create an environment in which New Zealand’s creative […]
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Eboni Waitere Makes History as First Māori President of PANZ
Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) has made history as the first Māori President of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), following her appointment at the organisation’s 49th Annual General Meeting. Highlighting the strength of Māori leadership at the highest levels of the sector, this milestone marks an important shift in […]
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NZ Book Sector Unites to Drive Growth, Protect Copyright and Increase Local and Global Visibility
5.00AM, THURSDAY 7 AUGUST 2025 The New Zealand book publishing sector comprising author, illustrator, publisher, bookseller, writer festival, copyright, library, reader and educator representatives have joined forces for the first time, committing to increase the visibility and sales of books by local authors as a priority. The show of unity, summarised in… Mahi Tahi […]
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NZSA Call out for CLNZ Board role: Author Director
April 2025 Appointment of an Author Director Copyright Licensing New Zealand The Position Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is seeking a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc (NZSA) to join its Board of Directors. This appointment process is being undertaken by the Board to […]
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Authors Guild USA Submits Guidance for National AI Action Plan to Protect Writers’ Rights
Artificial Intelligence March 19, 2025 In developing a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan—a comprehensive strategy to guide AI innovation and regulation in the United States—the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program requested comments from interested parties on a broad swath of issues […]
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WeCreate Creative Export Explainer
March 27 2025 | News WeCreate have launched a Creative Export Explainer report that sets out how the creative industries sell to the world, where barriers to creative trade exist, and how the government might help the sector to derive greater value from exporting. Click here to read the report
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Dear Brooke van Velden, please pick up
Printed in Newsroom March 26, 2025 Riley Chance claims in his angry story in ReadingRoom about the failures of the Public Lending Right (PLR) that the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and its members are happy with and doing nicely from the current PLR system. Au contraire. The lack of any progress to […]
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Books scraped in the LibGEN dataset by Meta?
Illegal Intellectual Property Use is Theft March 24, 2025 Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works have been used in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex Reisner made available for the Books3 AI […]
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International Authors Forum (IAF) General Meeting 2025
Artificial Intelligence With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems, we introduced our AI principles last year to guide discussions and policymaking. These principles set out key considerations and emphasized the importance of a comprehensive legal framework that addresses copyright, privacy, data protection, and competition and consumer protection laws. Such a framework is essential […]
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Writers & Publishers AI survey results – CLNZ 2025
This report summarises the data collected in the “Writers and Publishers AI Survey”. Throughout the report, all percentages are rounded to whole numbers. Key terms are in bold and defined in the footnotes. The survey was structured into three parts. Data collection Responses were collected via a weblink distributed through electronic direct mail and social […]
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Warning AI Alert from Hugh Stephens
Read on blog or Reader Hugh Stephens Blog Read on blog or Reader Writers! Do You Know your Drafts on MS Word are being Scooped by Microsoft to Build its AI Algorithm? But You Can Stop This From Happening (Read On). By hughstephensblog on January 18, 2025 (NB Microsoft has denied these claims and you can read their […]
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2024 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants Announced
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is excited to announce the successful recipients in the 2024 round of Contestable Fund Grants, with a total of $75,000 granted. This year we received 92 applications, the highest ever number of applications for a Cultural Fund award. Applications were invited for projects that had clearly defined and measurable outcomes […]
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