This sub-series documents June Callwood's work on behalf of the Writers' Union of Canada, Periodical Writers Association of Canada, International PEN, ACTRA, The Electronic Rights Licensing Agency (TERLA), Writers' Development Trust, and the Book and Periodical Council. For ACTRA, the records largely document her involvement in the anti-censorship committee in 1984 and its fight against ACTRA's new policies on censorship of pornography, and also participation in the Toronto women's caucus meeting on the subject of women, pornography and the law. But there is also ACTRA correspondence, minutes, reports and newsletters from the 1960s. She chaired the Book and Periodical Council in 1996 for which the files hold minutes of meetings, reports, and correspondence with government agencies and libraries. Its work often addressed the banning of books, such as when it responded to efforts by Customs and others to ban the controversial novel "The Turner Diaries".
The Electronic Rights Licensing Agency (TERLA) was founded in 1997 by the Periodical Writers Association of Canada, Writers' Union of Canada and the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators "to ensure that creators receive fair payment when their work is used in electronic format". Her TERLA files hold minutes of meetings, information packages for Board of Directors meetings, press releases, reports, newsletters, material concerning liaison between TERLA and the Publishers Advisory Committee, legal documents, affiliation agreements, by-laws, grant applications, and correspondence with individuals like Lawrence Jackson, Haroon Siddiqui, Brian Segal (publisher of "Maclean's"), and Lawrence Stevenson (CEO of Chapters). It includes records of the 2000 agreement whereby CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) assumed the representation of electronic rights from TERLA, which ceased to operate. Court action against the executives of TERLA and PWAC in 2003 is also documented.
Records relating to the Writers' Union of Canada, Periodical Writers Association of Canada, and International PEN are described in more detail at the sub-sub-series level.
