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The professional association for authors and illustrators in Australia. Official site: www.asauthors.org.au
Charlotte Wood, Anna Funder and Markus Zusak joined the publishers' and authors' associations before Parliament's AI committee. They asked for opt-in licensing, not a looser copyright law.
A week after helping launch a global charter on ethical AI use, the UK writers' union says it will withdraw to listen to members. Next steps go to its November 19 AGM.
Archived pages show an A$6,000 author 'loan' and a 200-copy purchase plan. Authors allege unpaid loans, unpublished books and missing royalties.
The APA says the committee's October 12 letter could open the door to an opt-out model for AI training, and that authors and publishers weren't heard first.
Creators say the Adelaide hybrid publisher stopped answering, left contracts unfulfilled and owes royalties. The ASA has set out what affected authors can do.
The Society of Authors, Authors Guild, ASA and partners want publishers, agents and prize bodies to pledge consent, disclosure and fair pay when they use generative AI.
The Australian Society of Authors has named writer, critic and teacher Tegan Bennett Daylight the 2026 ASA Medal recipient for her books and her work for other writers.
At an Australian parliamentary AI hearing, Anthropic said current copyright law makes local model training impossible. Creative groups said the law should stay as it is.
The Australian Society of Authors asked two parliamentary inquiries to make AI companies license copyright work in Australia, or let rightsholders sue here no matter where a model was trained.
The Australian Society of Authors published a model literary agent agreement that, for the first time, includes generative-AI clauses and a sample schedule of permitted uses.
Blanche d'Alpuget, the Australian novelist and biographer whose 1982 life of Bob Hawke became a landmark political book, died on September 8. She was 82. Her last novel, The Bunny Club, appeared when she was 81.
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