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Northeast Party House play the UOW Uni Bar as part of Great Southern Nights 2025. The photograph , taken from the side of the stage, shows the alt-electro dance band's members playing live with a university student crowd dancing and enjoying the gig visible in front of the stage. The photograph illustrates a story on AI copyright advocacy.
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Anatomy of a campaign: What the AI copyright win teaches us about collaborative advocacy

Nicholas Pickard of APRA AMCOS takes us behind the scenes of the major AI copyright campaign and finds many lessons…

Image: Xan Griffin on Unsplash.
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We've achieved a successful AI copyright ruling – but 'significant' advocacy is still needed

The CEO of the Australian Publishers Association welcomes the recent TDM ruling, which upholds authors' copyright in the training of…

access and inclusion: a photo of a group of young people in the their late teens and early twenties standing in a crowd watching a music concert against a black background.
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Arts students with disability faced harsh odds 40 years ago – what’s different now?

The Executive Director of one of our largest disability arts organisations, DADAA, identifies positive changes in tertiary arts training, but…

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke: a middle aged white man with grey hair wearing a suit standing spotlight against a dark background. In this article, Burke discusses arts policy and Revive.
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What Arts Minister’s press briefing reveals about policy evaluation

Digging in to Federal Arts Minister’s recent media briefing points to some of his policy evaluation preferences.

Man in blue shift balancing out money with stacks of coins. Arts funding Create NSW
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A look at the outcome of Create NSW’s inaugural 2-year funding round

Create NSW’s highly anticipated inaugural 2-year funding round has landed – and the news is mixed.

AI and artists. Image: Kyle Head on Unsplash.
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AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?

Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that…

man in white t-shirt holding open wallet with no money. Poverty line artists
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‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line

Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…

The Productivity Commission ... IMage: Holden Sheppard by Mark Flower.
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The Productivity Commission just advocated for theft and I'm f**king livid

The arts sector is united in rage at the Productivity Commission's new 'Harnessing Data' report.

Tax reform for artists is needed. Image: Dillon Wanner on Unsplash.
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You're killing me: tax reform for artists is needed now

An urgent call for tax reform, as studio artists and creatives miss out on annual wage index but still forced…

Young man with white t-shirt in lecture theatre at educational facility. University cuts
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Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures

Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?

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