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As a not-for-profit collective management organisation (CMO), jointly owned by the Publishers Association of NZ (PANZ) and the NZ Society of Authors (NZSA), CLNZ issue licences, administrates revenue distribution, and acts with advocacy, representing both copyright owners and licensed users in the New Zealand creative scene.

As artists, the world around us is full of inspiration and our relationships with people and the environment spark creativity. But is it all ok for me to use? As we create, we need to consider story sovereignty - who has the mana to tell the story?

It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it's allegedly the first recorded case of copyright infringement, one which ended poorly with a full scale battle, 3,000 deaths and an honorably mentioned cow.

Sometimes, determining the creator of a work is really difficult, or impossible, even after diligent hunting and searching. These “orphans” have no clear copyright owner, but that doesn’t always mean they’re out of copyright or in the public domain.

Imagine you are a school, or a funeral director, or a church, or a production company, or a café owner – any business that wants to use multiple pieces of copyrighted intellectual property in a year. A CMO, or Collective Management Organisation, exists to make it easy to do this the right way.

We’re pleased to announce the newest recipient of a CLNZ Partnership Fund grant. Playmarket has received a $3,000 Partnership Fund Grant.