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Access Copyright

Name: Access Copyright
Address: 56 Wellesley Street West, 3rd floor, Toronto, ON, M5S2S3, CA
Telephone: +14168681620

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We make it easy for users to share content responsibly, collect payment for this use, and distribute the royalties we generate to creators and publishers.

Why we Exist…

Access Copyright exists to make it easy for everyone to remix and share published content. We understand that good content can be further enriched when people use it interactively. The pieces we select and share—whether as educators, students, colleagues or friends—reveal our unique perspective about what’s important, interesting, even beautiful. For more than 25 years Access Copyright has facilitated the remixing and sharing of content for educational and professional purposes. We have helped educators become their own anthology editors and have combined this with an assurance that the original creators and publishers also benefit, so that they can continue creating new and innovative works. This is vitally important to a strong Canadian culture and to all those who read, write, teach and learn. Today we have an opportunity and a responsibility to help ensure that our writers keep writing and our publishers keep publishing. We take this responsibility seriously and are dedicated to forging a future for copyright in Canada that works for everyone. What, How & Who....

Access Copyright is a collective voice of creators and publishers in Canada. A non-profit, national organization, we represent the published works of thousands of Canadian creators and publishers, and many foreign works. Our customers are educational institutions, businesses, governments and others who buy licences for the copying and re-use of published works. The proceeds gathered from licensed copying are passed along to the copyright-holders and help ensure the continued creation of new and innovative works. Looking Forward…

Making it easy for people to use content at their convenience and enabling payment back to creators and publishers continues to be at the heart of all we do as we transition into our digital future. The seamless integration of copyright clearance with the digital services used in today’s classrooms and businesses will improve peoples’ interaction with content, all the while rewarding creators and publishers for their work.

11/04/2026

We encourage all of our followers to take part in this global mobilization against a proposed exception in Australia's copyright law that would permit AI companies to use copyright-protected works without having to obtain permission or a licence to do so.

More details are in the below post from The Writers' Union of Canada as well as from Authors Guild here: https://authorsguild.org/news/australia-ai-training-statement/?fbclid=IwY2xjawVYGc1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMXNpdXRaMXVWalZNbFNNWXBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEflrwSJrdURH6XKL1u4OJzVznEfMlHNXkUEFWouNcwJSQoTyVAS0w1Fk6aDX4_aem_Ch6_MBn-sAPOurf3laGW9w

10/21/2026

We were so glad to hear recently from IBBY Canada on how the Access Copyright Foundation Events Grant they were awarded help bring together lovers of Canadian children's literature this past summer in Ottawa.

Read more updates from Foundation grant recipients by visiting the Foundation's spotlight page. https://www.acfoundation.ca/spotlight/

10/08/2026

Access Copyright has released the 2026 Payback payment to eligible creator affiliates.

Details on this year's payment are available here: https://accesscopyright.ca/post/access-copyright-has-released-the-2026-payback-payment

09/28/2026

Please take a few moments to sign The Writers' Union of Canada's Parliamentary petition calling for the House of Commons to:

1. Amend relevant laws, statutes, and regulations to require full disclosure from AI developers of the copyrighted works used to train generative AI. Such disclosure should contain enough detail for creators to identify use of their own work, enforce their rights, negotiate licences, and be fairly paid; and

2. Introduce regulation requiring transparency on Generative AI outputs so that they are marked/labelled as the product of artificial intelligence, to provide consumer certainty and protection from fraud and fakery.

Add your name and signature here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7774

09/03/2026

Access Copyright Foundation is now accepting applications for Events Grants.

This program is ideal for organizations planning festivals, reading series, conferences or other activities that will celebrate literary and/or visual arts in Canada.

Read more: https://www.acfoundation.ca/2026/09/02/call-for-applications-access-copyright-foundation-events-grants-deadline-november-1-2026/

09/02/2026

Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is pleased to announce the 25 Canadian writers, visual artists, publishers and organizations that will be receiving support in 2026 for their education and training goals.

Please join us in congratulating Caroline Adderson, Gloria Blizzard, Book Publishers Association Of Alberta, Frances Boyle, Julia Breckenreid, Pamela Bustin, Julie Cameron Gray, Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective Inc., Adebe DeRango-Adem, Emma FitzGerald, Lindsey Harrington, Brooke Lockyer, Raume Luminaire, Jessica Moore, Miranda Newman, Kendra Place, Zarmina Rafi, Lisa Richter, Yolanda Ridge, Hadiya Roderique, Sandhya Singh, Carle Steel, Melissa Than, Turnstone Press & Julia Vasileva.

Thank you to the jurors for the 2026 Professional Development program: writer Donna Besel Author; artist and writer Erica Isomura; and writer Clea Roberts.

Read more: https://www.acfoundation.ca/2026/09/02/access-copyright-foundation-shares-its-2026-professional-development-grant-recipients/

07/29/2026

Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is pleased to share its 2026 recipients of Marian Hebb Research Grants.

In total, the Foundation has awarded grants to 27 members of Canada’s creative sector.

Read more: https://www.acfoundation.ca/2026/07/28/access-copyright-foundation-announces-its-2026-marian-hebb-research-grant-recipients/

Please join us in congratulating Art Gallery of Swift Current, Between the Lines, Lawrence Bird, Rose Bouthillier, Daniel Boyce, Anne Shibata Casselman, Kate Cayley, Gregor Craigie, Christine Estima, Lesley Evans Ogden, Lindsey Harrington, Jeremy Hull, Monica Kidd, Chelene Knight, Emily Kopley, Lezlie Lowe, James MacKinnon, Rowan McCandless, Keriann McGoogan, Author, Michelle Mossop, Anthony Oliveira, Jane Shi, Leanne Shirtliffe, Author & Speaker, Suzannah Showler, Ruby Smith, Moez Surani & Wanda Taylor.

Thank you to the jurors for the 2026 Marian Hebb Research Grant program: journalist, writer, and editor Sheima Benembarek; writer, educator, and scholar Trevor Corkum; and poet Gil McElroy.

07/28/2026

Great to see some of our affiliates on this year's longlist!

📚 The City of Toronto and TPL have named the 13 books longlisted for the 2026 Toronto Book Awards. Congratulations to all the nominated authors! Explore the reading list at http://tpl.ca/tba

News release: https://ow.ly/W7fT50ZqHL0

07/28/2026

So excited to see Mariko Tamaki honoured at the 2026 Eisner Awards.

The U.S awards celebrate comic books and graphic novel creators around the world. Tamaki won the prizes for best publication for teens and best writer.

07/17/2026

"The obvious route for the AI industry to take is to license the content it wants to use. And the obvious route for the Government of Canada to take it to state clearly and unequivocally that Canadian content is not up for grabs." Marc Miller Mélanie Joly Full op-ed by Hugh Stephens here:

Carney should make clear that tech giants do not have the right to steal copyrighted works

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56 Wellesley Street West, 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON
M5S2S3

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+14168681620

Website

http://www.accesscopyright.ca/

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