Category: Music

Sample agreements

• Auspice Agreement
• Band Partnership Deed
• Direct Licensing Guidelines (Public Performance and Transmission Rights)
• Music Commission for Film
• Music Compilation Licence for a Community Project
• Music Licence for Film
• Music Studio Recording Agreement for Unsigned Artists
• Venue Hire 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)
• Direct licensing guidelines: sound recordings
• 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
• Organising a festival
• Patents
• Performers’ rights
• 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
• 360 Degree Record Deals
• A New National Business Name Registration System
• A Quick Introduction to Trademarks
• Acts falling outside the scope of copyright infringement
• Are the kids alright? Children in the entertainment industry
• 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
• Changes for PPCA licensors
• Civil liability reform: what’s going on?
• Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies
• Common conundrums
• Common questions asked around tax time
• Content and copyright in the digitial age
• Copyright: Hip Hop, Producers & File Sharing
• Digital Defamation
• Digital rights – American labels step up actions against online music companies
• Fair crack: criticism and copyright
• Fear factor: films and the copyright clearance jungle
• From page to performance: a composer’s collaboration with performers
• Get It In Writing
• Getting Mobile with Distribution
• Hang the DJ?
• High Court Gives Green Light To Entrepreneurial Charities
• I Like Your Style! Part I: copyright infringement or not?
• I Like Your Style! Part II: Is the copycat passing off?
• Indigenous Protocols
• Integrity issues
• Introducing Creative Commons
• Keeping The Fun In Funding
• Laugh, Kookaburra Laugh
• Liability Insurance: know the basics!
• Licensed to Jive
• Love (not) thy neighbour
• Make the most of your gig
• Meet the Lawyer: Harold Little, McKays Solicitors, Brisbane
• Mighty Kookaburra swoop Men At Work
• Moral Rights Come to Court
• Music sampling
• Musicians in the Black Update
• Musicians’ Copyright Royalties in the Face of a Changing Industry
• Naming rights
• New Laws To Better Protect Performers In Dealings With Agents
• New room to lampoon: The new fair dealing exception for parody or satire
• Pitching Your Idea
• Play it again Sam: new rights for performers
• PPCA takes Radio Cap to the High Court
• 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
• Securing Your Sound Recordings Online
• Taxation of artists
• Taxation of professional artists
• The Art Of Insurance: Creative Approaches For Artists
• The Death of Shock and its Impact on Australian Artists
• The good, the bad and the ugly of competition conditions
• The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby: witnessing the birth of a creative spirit
• The New Australian government and the Arts
• The new uniform defamation laws
• The Orphan Works Problem
• The Unofficial Band Fansite
• This Is Us: Establishing Your Performing Name
• Trade mark protection and ICIP: How does Australia fare?
• Uploading your work on to a website
• We are just a tribute band
• What’s in a name?

Case studies

• Best practice advice benefits the Little Big Shots International Film Festival and its participants
• Breaking up is hard to do … what happens when a band member leaves.
• Respect and Protect Indigenous Art and Culture
• The Brow Horn Orchestra: On the road to success
• Visible, a community cultural development project of Multicultural Arts Victoria Inc
• Whitehouse Scores A Master Licensing Deal For its First Album

News & events

• 2011 iNTune Alice Springs Music Conference – the second!
• 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
• Bush Band Business
• Connect with Arts Law on Facebook and Twitter
• Copyright Agency’s 2012 Annual Seminar: Digital Publishing Today
• Licence Fees Paid by Radio for use of Sound Recordings
• MUSICIANS IN THE BLACK - Workshop for Abmusic Students
• MUSICIANS IN THE BLACK WORKSHOP
• 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
• Stay Tuned: legal issues for musicians
• 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
• Music management checklist
• Music publishing checklist
• Organising a festival checklist

Guides

• Live music performance: Booking gigs guide
• Music recording agreements guide
• Sponsorship agreements guide

Seminar Papers

• Collaborations (1999)
• Music: Get on Track (2001)
• Music: Push the Button (2001)

Books

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

Other Organisations

• Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA (AACHWA)
• 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 Music Industry Network (AMIN)
• Australian Performing Right Association (APRA)
• Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA)
• Australian Tax Office (ATO)
• Black Book
• Blacklist
• 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)
• Contemporary Music Services Tasmania (CMST)
• 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)
• Foolkit
• FORM (WA)
• Indigenous Law Centre
• Indigenous Remote Communications Australia (IRCA)
• 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)
• Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI)
• Music NSW
• Music NT
• Music Victoria
• Musicians Union of Australia (MUA)
• Ninti One Ltd. (formerly Desert Knowledge CRC)
• NSW Office of Fair Trading
• Office of Industrial Relations
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner
• Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
• Public Interest Advocacy Centre
• Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH NSW)
• Public Interest Law Clearing House (VIC)
• Q Music
• Queensland Law Society
• Small Business Tool kit
• Small Businesses Victoria
• Songlines
• Terri Janke and Company
• The Push
• Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA)
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Section
• Western Australian Music Industry Association (WAM)
• WIPO’s Traditional Knowledge section
• Word of Life International
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)