Category: Film & TV

Sample agreements

• Artwork Reproduction Licence for Film
• Cast & Crew Agreement (with deferred fees)
• Cast & Crew Agreement (without deferred fees)
• Film Location Deed of Release (no payment)
• Film Location Deed of Release (with payment)
• Film/Video Partnership Deed
• Film/Video Sample Agreements Pack
• Interviewee’s Release
• Interviewee’s Release: Short form
• Music Commission for Film
• Music Licence for Film
• Option and Purchase Agreement
• Producer and Director Agreement
• Video Production Agreement
• Where There’s a Will

Information sheets

• Agency agreements
• CHILDREN IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS - information for artists and arts organisations
• Classification and censorship
• Competition conditions
• Contracts: a glossary of jargon
• Contracts: an introduction
• Copyright
• Copyright Collecting Societies
• Copyright infringement and letter of demand
• Creative Commons
• Debt recovery letter of demand
• Defamation law (for material published after January 2006)
• Defamation law (for material published before January 2006)
• Do I need a film location release
• Employment issues (for NSW employees)
• Exclusion clauses, disclaimers and risk warnings
• Legal issues for bloggers
• Liability and insurance
• Mediation service
• Moral rights
• Moral rights infringement and letter of demand
• Patents
• Performers’ rights
• Privacy and the private sector
• Protecting your ideas
• Protecting your professional name
• Superannuation and contract for services
• Trade marks
• Unauthorised use of your image
• Using brands and products in film
• Website development

Articles

• (RE)Introducing Creative Commons
• A matter of fact: non-fiction and copyright
• A New National Business Name Registration System
• Access Denied: artists under Australia’s mandatory internet filter
• Acts falling outside the scope of copyright infringement
• Animal rights and artistic freedom
• Are the kids alright? Children in the entertainment industry
• Art + Law + Crime
• Artistic Merit not sufficient - Baise Moi REFUSED CLASSIFICATION
• Artists & the New Unfair Contract Terms Legislation
• Artists and the GST: so you’re not registered
• Artists and the GST: The confusion stops here
• Business for charity
• Cameras in Public
• Civil liability reform: what’s going on?
• Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies
• Common conundrums
• Common questions asked around tax time
• Contempt: an artistic spin
• Content and copyright in the digitial age
• Copyright in Jokes: Whose Line is it Anyway?
• DARE-ing to take on the Kokoda trail… copyright ownership lessons for film makers
• Defending Your Film Online
• Deferred Payments
• Digital Defamation
• Do the rights thing
• Fair crack: criticism and copyright
• Fanworks, Copyright and Moral Rights
• Fear factor: films and the copyright clearance jungle
• Film & defamation update
• Funding a Film through Product Placement
• Games, Television and Downloads
• Getting Mobile with Distribution
• I Like Your Style! Part I: copyright infringement or not?
• I Like Your Style! Part II: Is the copycat passing off?
• Incidental use of artistic works in broadcasts: Pizza box case
• Indigenous Protocols
• Integrity issues
• Introducing Creative Commons
• Keeping The Fun In Funding
• Liability Insurance: know the basics!
• Love (not) thy neighbour
• Low Budget Films – contracts with cast and crew
• Meet the Lawyer: Harold Little, McKays Solicitors, Brisbane
• Moral Rights Come to Court
• Musicians’ Copyright Royalties in the Face of a Changing Industry
• Naming rights
• New room to lampoon: The new fair dealing exception for parody or satire
• Once upon a time … when art was confined to the walls of a gallery
• Pitching Your Idea
• Play it again Sam: new rights for performers
• Protecting Your Marketing Idea Goggomobil Style
• Protocols For Working With Children
• Public Liability Insurance and Incorporated Associations in NSW
• Putting Your Indie Short Film on the Internet
• Report of Senate Inquiry into the National Classification Scheme
• Roadshow Films v iiNet - A Very Brief Summary
• Scrapping the artistic purpose defence in NSW: what it means for artists
• Snapping In The Street
• Taxation of artists
• Taxation of professional artists
• The “banning” of Ken Park: a brief review of the facts and issues
• The Art Of Insurance: Creative Approaches For Artists
• The Australian Screen Production Incentive Scheme
• The Death of Shock and its Impact on Australian Artists
• The good, the bad and the ugly of competition conditions
• The Great Classification Debate
• The Grey Zone of Creation
• The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby: witnessing the birth of a creative spirit
• The importance of extending performers’ rights to audiovisual performers
• The Legal Issues Arising When Using Children in the Creative Process
• The Making of Jan Chapman AO
• The New Australian government and the Arts
• The new uniform defamation laws
• The Orphan Works Problem
• The Rights Stuff
• The Unofficial Band Fansite
• The Writer is King: Copyright in Devised Theatre
• Update: Copyright interest for film directors
• Uploading your work on to a website
• Watching the watchers
• What’s in a name?
• Writers Organisations Information
• You talkin’ ‘bout me? Basing stories on people’s lives

Case studies

• Best practice advice benefits the Little Big Shots International Film Festival and its participants
• Respect and Protect Indigenous Art and Culture

News & events

• A Commonwealth Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasion of Privacy
• Arts Law presents at Next Wave
• Arts Law submission on the National Cultural Policy (NCP) discussion paper
• Arts Law’s Artists in the Black (AITB) website is now live!
• Australia’s Health 2012 Art Competition
• Australian Copyright Council National Seminar Program 2011
• Australian Law Reform Commission Classification Review
• Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007
• Connect with Arts Law on Facebook and Twitter
• Copyright Agency’s 2012 Annual Seminar: Digital Publishing Today
• Directors’ copyright
• Film and Law Seminar - WA
• Indigenous Screen Creators: What’s The Law?
• It’s a cut - legal issues for Film Makers
• National Human Rights Action Plan
• New audio recordings available on the Solid Arts website
• Proposed Private members bill to amend the Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW)
• Report on the development of the National Performing Arts Touring Framework
• SCREEN CREATORS: WHAT’S THE LAW?
• SCREEN RIGHTS AND WRONGS: THE LEGAL LOWDOWN FOR SCREEN CONTENT CREATORS
• Senate Inquiry into classification
• Submission on the proposed Tasmanian Human Rights Charter
• Submission to the ALRC Classification Review
• The Arts Law Centre of Australia’s 2011 Tasmanian Tour
• TOP 10 ISSUES AFFECTING INDIGENOUS ARTISTS

Checklists

• Business partnership checklist

Guides

• Short film competitions: Producer’s guide
• Sponsorship agreements guide

Seminar Papers

• Collaborations (1999)

Books

• Answers for Artists: a Guide to Basic Legal Issues for Artists
• Business Structures and Governance: A Practical Guide for the Arts
• Film Business: A Handbook for Producers (NEW 3rd edition)
• The Arts Insurance Handbook (2nd edition)

Other Organisations

• Artists in the Black – Arts Law’s Indigenous service
• Arts Law Centre of Australia
• Arts Management Advisory Group (AMAG)
• Attorney-General’s Department
• Australia Council for the Arts
• Australian Competition and Consumer Comission (ACCC)
• Australian Copyright Council
• Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT)
• Australian Screen Director’s Guild Authorship Collecting Society
• Australian Subscription Television Association (ASTRA)
• Australian Tax Office (ATO)
• Australian Writers Guild (AWG)
• Black Book
• Blackscreen
• Board Organisations-Building Effective Boards
• Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA)
• Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI)
• Classifications website
• Combined Legal Community Centres Group (NSW)
• Community Legal Centres (CLCs)
• Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW)
• Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
• Council of Social Service of New South Wales (NCOSS)
• Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
• Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages and Culture (FATSILC)
• Film Victoria- Location Gallery
• Foolkit
• FORM (WA)
• Indigenous Law Centre
• Indigenous Remote Communications Australia (IRCA)
• Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA)
• IP Australia
• Law Institute of Victoria
• Law Society of New South Wales
• Law Society of Northern Territory
• Law Society of South Australia
• Law Society of Western Australia
• Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA)
• Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV)
• Ninti One Ltd. (formerly Desert Knowledge CRC)
• NSW Office of Fair Trading
• Office of Industrial Relations
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner
• Public Interest Advocacy Centre
• Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH NSW)
• Public Interest Law Clearing House (VIC)
• Queensland Law Society
• Screen Australia
• Screen NSW
• Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA)
• Screenrights
• ScreenWest
• Small Business Tool kit
• Small Businesses Victoria
• Terri Janke and Company
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Section
• WIPO’s Traditional Knowledge section
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)