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There are four moral rights outlined in the Copyright Act; the right of identification, the right of integrity, false attribution and the “right to privacy of certain photographs and films,” even if someone else owns the copyright.

Remember when you were in primary school, and got sent to the principal’s office for a chat about the way you scratched some stars and your name on the school toilet door... but it wasn’t you who did it? No? Only me? That’s false attribution – when someone attributes a work to someone else.

Congratulations to the successful recipients of the 2024 Contestable Fund Grants, with a total of $75,000 granted.

Mark Derby has been awarded the 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc, $25,000 Writers’ Award for his project, with the working title, ‘Outlaw Prophet - Hakaraia Mahika and the Tauranga Wars.’ This book is an account of the New Zealand Wars in the Bay of Plenty, with a focus on an extraordinary spiritual and military leader.

In 2022, Damien Levi received a Contestable Fund Grant, which helped him kickstart his micro-press Āporo Press.

The 2024 CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in Aotearoa. The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project.