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2022 was a year of transition, progress and achievements for Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ). We are full steam ahead into 2023 and it’s already shaping up to be another eventful year for us, with many exciting plans and developments on the horizon that we’re looking forward to sharing with you.
We'd like to recognise that in many parts across the motu, it has been a particularly challenging last few months. We are doing our best to pay particular attention to this in the way we work with those affected, and to be as flexible as possible; especially when it comes to our current data collection process with school licence-holders. | | | |
I am now six months into my role here at CLNZ, and a personal highlight for me has been getting to know our current CLNZ licence-holders, rightsholders, groups and communities. I look forward to continuing to forge these relationships.
Coming up, we have several large projects in the pipeline that will have a significant impact for creative rights and licensing - including a refreshed Creative Rights Education programme, and a new Rights Management Service. Watch this space… | |
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A note from our Board Chair - Emeritus Prof. Pat Walsh | |
In this Chair Report, I would like to reflect on the significant achievements and challenges that the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Board faced in 2022. It was a year of transition, with the appointment of a new Chief Executive, the renewal of licensing schemes, and the implementation of various governance initiatives.
On behalf of the CLNZ Board, I would like to welcome Sam Irvine as CLNZ’s new Chief Executive. It is somewhat of a belated welcome as Sam has now been in the role for several months and is very much getting to grips with the challenges facing CLNZ and indeed the whole creative sector... (more here).
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In a first for Aotearoa New Zealand, a group of visual artists received payment for the commercial reproduction of their work in auction house promotional material last year. Read more here.
We were thrilled to receive Mānatu Taonga, Ministry of Culture and Heritage funding, to enable us to progress plans for the development of a new Rights Management Service. We were able to commence work on this project and have made good headway.
Last year, we unveiled our Creative Rights Education workshop programme - designed to help creators to demystify copyright, and understand how copyright underpins the creative process. We had a fantastic uptake with these workshops, which were attended by approximately 900 creators across a variety of disciplines.
For the first time, we were able to use MyCopyright (our online portal for New Zealand licence-holders and rightsholders) to make particular UK royalties payments to New Zealand rightsholders.
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Rights Management Service - we are currently in the preliminary phase of developing this service, testing ideas and having discussions with our growing and diverse assembly of writers, publishers, and artists. We will be making a final decision on building this in the coming months.
Creative Rights Education - an updated workshop series has been crafted and was successfully launched earlier this year. Alongside this, we have also created a series of videos and a podcast which will be released very soon (more details below).
Advocacy - we will continue to support the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) advocacy work and engage with various government agencies, select committees, MPs, and Ministers on creative rights. We will also continue to actively engage with auction houses that have yet to licence their commercial use of artist’s work’. Upcoming work will include evaluating the forthcoming bill to introduce resale royalties for visual artists in New Zealand.
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Revenue, licensing and distributions in 2022 | |
We’re a not-for-profit organisation and so when a school or a university, a business or a church, or any other organisation, licences with us, we distribute the net revenue from that licence to the rightsholders whose works have been copied (rightsholders are usually the people who created the work).
Revenue and licensing facts and figures:
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| REVENUE | 2022 | 2021 | | Revenue to Rightsholders | $5,643,000 | $5,299,000 | | Gross Revenue | $7,390,000 | $6,810,000 | | Overseas Revenue | $1,048,000 | $629,000 | | Domestic Licensing | $5,996,000 | $6,046,000 |
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| LICENSING | 2022 | 2021 | | Total Schools Licensed | 1,973 | 1,937 | | Total Students | 636,055 | 627,147 | | Primary Students | 391,002 | 397,066 | | Secondary Students | 245,053 | 230,081 |
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Over the last year we’ve been using our online portal - MyCopyright - to make all aspects of licensing, as well as the administration of paying rightsholders, simpler for everyone.
Each year, we publish our full audited financial statements on the governance page of our website. The 2022 publication will be uploaded as soon as it is available from our audit team.
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Attend the CLNZ Annual General Meeting
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New creative rights workshops and resources | |
In the wake of the success of our 2022 education programme, our Creative Rights Educator Karen Workman, has been working hard behind the scenes to launch updated Creative Rights for Creative People workshops again this year. New June dates have just been released! You can view the schedule and sign up to a workshop here.
To bolster this Creative Rights for Creative People workshops, we've also created a suite of soon-to-be-released videos and a six-episode podcast which will be available on the CLNZ website - more details of this launch to be announced soon. | | | |
Our thanks to Mānatu Taonga, Ministry of Culture and Heritage for their support of this workshop programme, and the forthcoming video and podcast series.
Coming up, we also have plans to extend the 2023 education programme to include sessions on creative contracts and agreements for writers, authors and visual artists, following a large number of requests for support on this.
We’re pretty chuffed with the feedback we've received about these workshops. Here are a few of the comments shared by some recent attendees:
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"The definitions of copyright were covered really well and the real life examples were excellent and aided in understanding." | | "Karen delivered the orkshop in a really interesting, informative, and user-friendly manner."
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appropriation which I appreciated, and you acknowledged tīkanga in your processes." | | | |
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Check out our great New Zealand Book Ecosystem! | |
Following recent discussions with PANZ and NZSA, we determined a need in the industry to map and illustrate the size and extent of the interconnected organisations and people that create, publish, distribute, and sell books. The end result is our comprehensive diagram of the New Zealand Book Ecosystem. Click image to download as a PDF. | | | |
We decided to take this a step further and map the flows of economic value generated in publishing, which ultimately drives discoverability of books and therefore sales. The outcome showed that a number of organisations create and amend metadata on books. This demonstrates that publishing, and all of the associated organisations captured in our mapping, are a true ecosystem who work seamlessly together to support one another and the industry’s economic growth. Click image to download as a PDF. | | | |
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CLNZ Cultural Fund dates for your diary
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We love to see creative people thrive and creative projects succeed. We invest in both people and projects through our CLNZ Cultural Fund, reflecting our commitment to the growth and development of creative work and creative people, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Key dates for 2023:
⏰ 11 May: CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants Applications now open. More here >
⏰ 1 June: CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award
More here >
⏰ 6 September: CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants. More here >
Find out more about our CLNZ Cultural Fund.
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The CLNZ Partnership Fund
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The CLNZ Partnership Fund is aimed at partnering with sector groups and individuals who are connecting to, or working with diverse voices and communities on projects which align with our CLNZ Cultural Fund objectives.
Congratulations to our final 2022 recipients and our earlier 2023 recipients. Read more here.
We've also just announced another project this week. Read more here. | | | |
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We’re hugely delighted to congratulate broadcaster, music critic and author, Nick Bollinger, on his big win at #theockhams last night! Nick was a 2020 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award recipient, and has won the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction, for his book Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press) - a compelling historic account of the transformation of New Zealand life, wrought by the counterculture in the turbulent period of the 1960s and '70s.
Congratulations also to our 2020 CLNZ Contestable Fund recipient, Dr Monty Soutar, who was a finalist in the Best Fiction book at #theockhams last night for his epic first novel, Kāwai For Such a Time as This - a remarkable story of pre-colonial Aotearoa and nine successive generations of one Māori family.
We’re excited to be giving away a copy of both books! To enter and be in to win, send us an email with your name and postal address by 30 May 2023*. *Your details will only be used for the purpose of this draw and will be deleted within one week of the draw being made.
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Kāwai For Such a Time as This
The remarkable first novel by respected historian Dr. Monty Soutar, ONZM (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) that reveals the role of colonisation in shaping Aotearoa New Zealand, balanced with an honest appraisal of the country in pre-colonial times. | | | |
Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the turbulent period of the 1960s and '70s, written by award-winning Wellington author, broadcaster, critic and the incoming Lilburn Research Fellowship scholar for 2023, Nick Bollinger. | | | |
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Our Visual Arts Working Group was set up last year to advise our Board on the development of visual arts services, and to ensure visual artists are well-represented when it comes to the governance of our organisation.
We’re thrilled that Yolunda Hickman has been welcomed to this group as our Visual Arts Representative. Read more about Yolunda's appointment here.
The Group are making steady progress on complex matters of importance to visual artists in New Zealand, one of significance being the development of a Rights Management Service that will be relevant and beneficial for visual arts.
We are still actively working to join auction houses to our licensing scheme.
Read more about Working for visual artists or if you're a visual artist, sign up here.
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Steps to protect your art from AI image generators | |
Chances are you’ve already had a look at some of the AI image generators available online, and the ways in which users are able to input terms to create images in the style of other living artists.
You may already be aware that several artists are in the process of suing the creators of a variety of AI art generators for infringing their rights, by training their generators using art scraped from the web, without permission.
So, it’s timely to talk about measures you can take to make your artwork harder for AI generators to scrape and use without your permission. Some of these are the copyright basics and are highlighted in our Creative Rights for Creative People workshops. For example: Ensuring you use the © symbol and including your name on your work.
Using watermarks and low-resolution uploads - this makes it more difficult for the AI to make use of the image as source material, because the image is either obscured or low quality. Watermarks can also allow images to be identified as the work of a particular creator as well.
There are also some mechanisms you can use to specifically opt-out of various generators’ training datasets. It’s not a catch-all unfortunately, but it’s worth looking at Spawning’s Have I Been Trained and assigning HTML “noai” or “noimageai’’ meta tags. Take a look at this in-depth guide.
You can also read Sam Irvine’s thoughts on AI and Copyright in the autumn 2023 issue of NZ Author magazine.
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Has "Copyright Agent" contacted you? | |
We’ve heard from several Aotearoa New Zealand businesses who have been contacted by the Denmark-based organisation, Copyright Agent, over the unlicensed use of photographs owned by other parties.
We have no affiliation with Copyright Agent but to help clear up any uncertainty, we thought we’d explain who we are and what we do - and our understanding of what Copyright Agent does. Read the full story here.
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Join the creative rights conversation! | |
Stay up-to-date with current creative rights topics, art and book sector developments, and all our grant and award news over on our blog and social media pages. We've got lots to talk about! Below are just a few of the topics we have blogged about recently: You can also connect with us on our social channels below. | | | |
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Happy World Book and Copyright Day | |
23 April was UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day - a global celebration of books and reading, and a perfect time to celebrate our incredible local authors and publishers. It’s also an opportunity talk about how integral copyright is in the creation of new books and the growth of our creative industries.
When we value the rights of people who make books, we get more - more creativity, more Aotearoa New Zealand stories in homes, classrooms, libraries and bookshops, more inspirational ideas, and more access to local knowledge. | | | |
So, here’s to all the wonderful Aotearoa New Zealand books out there being read, studied, learned from and loved - and to the rights of our books creators.
Join the creative rights conversation - take a look at our blog posts here.
Read real stories from people who write, read and love NZ books over on Creative Rights = Creative Reads.
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Thank you for working with us. If you'd like to find out more about who we are and what we do, take a look at our website.
Our thanks too for the use of the images in this email. Image credits go to:
Sam Irvine: Sam Irvine Emeritus Prof. Pat Walsh: Emeritus Prof. Pat Walsh Know your Copyrights: Shutterstock 2022, used under licence The Book Ecosystem: CLNZ Economic and Data flows in Publishing Ecosystem: CLNZ Call for Applications: UX Indonesia on Unsplash The CLNZ Partnership Fund (congrats): Brett Garwood on Unsplash Kāwai For Such a Time as This cover: Aotearoa Books Jumping Sundays cover: Auckland University Press Join the creative rights conversation: Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash World Book and Copyright Day: Shutterstock 2022, used under licence
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