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Mel Winder has been appointed as Director to the CLNZ Board in conjunction with the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and replaces Graeme Cosslett who steps down after holding this appointment for two terms.

Congratulations to the successful recipients of the 2022 Contestable Fund Grants, with a total of $73,000 granted.

Nau mai, haere mai and welcome to our new Visual Artist Representative, Yolunda Hickman.

Who can deny the incredible popularity of the Twilight series, by Stephanie Meyer! Her books lit the imagination of millions of people, spawned five feature films and for a minute, it seems like everyone had separated into Team Edward or Team Jacob.

Very, very few creatives have a liveable, regular income from their creative vocation, or from a singular source. Copyright protects all of your original work, from the moment you create it. And that means you have an exclusive, but limited time to monetise it, without any competition from others who might want to use your work for their own gain.

Prior to the invention of the printing press, the manual copying of books was so laborious, there was no need for protection. Of course, once this new technology existed, the need to protect the right to copy books also existed.