You will require a licence if you are a business that intends to copy or communicate third party copyright text and images including newspapers, magazines, journals, books or websites. This is a blanket licence that covers the use of digital, online and hardcopy material. It has been updated in 2025 to include rights for inputting content from Australian newspapers into Generative AI tools.
The licence will authorise you to copy, communicate and use text and images within certain limits, for example by:
- copying (hardcopy and digital)
- sharing copies within your organisation
- supplying copies for regulatory purposes, legal proceedings and patent applications
- storing digital or maintaining archive copies
- printing
- external sharing via email, extranet, website, social media and submissions / reports (Australian newspapers only)
- inputting content from Australian newspapers into Generative AI applications.
Copyright Agency also provides secure pay-per-use licences for the reuse of articles from major Australian newspaper publishers. They can also support you to licence artworks for a wide range of uses, including websites and online collections, merchandise, catalogues and exhibition brochures, annual reports, advertising and signage.
Copyright Agency centrally manages rights on behalf of content creators and rightsholders (such as authors and publishers) to assist in the collective administration of their copyrights.
