Info Sheets

Use our free info sheets to understand how to protect and stand up for your rights. They help explain the law and tell you what you need to know for your arts practice.

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Agency agreements

Alternative Dispute Resolution – Binding and Non-binding

Alternative Dispute Resolution – Mediation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright

Artists in the Black Collaboration Toolkit, resources for use in Indigenous art projects

Arts Law’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Guidelines

Artwork Made Using Animal and Plant Material – Australia

Artwork Made Using Animal and Plant Material – New South Wales

Artwork made using Animal and Plant Material – Northern Territory

Artwork made using Animal and Plant Material – Queensland

Artwork made using Animal and Plant Material – South Australia

Artwork made using Animal and Plant Material – Victoria

Auspice Agreements

Australian Consumer Law and Creators

Authors and Self-Publishing

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Business Structures

Business Structures for Filmmakers

Busking Permit Guide for Australian Capital Cities

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Certificates of Authenticity

Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission

Children in the creative process (Australia)

Children in the creative process (NSW)

Children in the creative process (NT)

Children in the creative process (QLD)

Children in the creative process (VIC)

Children in the creative process (WA)

Classification and censorship

Competition conditions

Computer Game Design and Development

Computer Games – legal issues for creative designers

Contracts: A glossary of jargon

Contracts: An Introduction

Contracts in 10 Questions

Copyright

Copyright Collecting Societies

Copyright in Music and Lyrics

Copyright Infringement

Copyright Licensing for Art Centres

Creative Commons

Creative enterprise hubs in NSW: Employment issues

Creative enterprise hubs in NSW: Liability and Insurance

Creative Enterprise Hubs in NSW: Overview

Crowdfunding

Cultural and Intellectual Property Policies

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Debt Recovery – Small Claims

Defamation Law

Defamation Law – Online Publication

Design Checklist

Disclaimers, exclusion clauses and risk warnings

Drama, Performance And Dance

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Employment Issues (NSW)

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Fashion and textiles – for artists and designers

Festivals – how to organise them

Film competitions

Film Financing

Film Location Releases

Filming in Public Places

Filming with a Smartphone/Hidden Camera Information Sheet

Freedom of expression

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Governance

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Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)

Insurance claims in the aftermath of floods

Intestacy Kit – ACT

Intestacy Kit – NSW

Intestacy Kit – NT

Intestacy Kit – QLD

Intestacy Kit – SA

Intestacy Kit – TAS

Intestacy Kit – VIC

Intestacy Kit – WA

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Legal Glossary: What do some important legal terms mean?

Legal Issues for Bloggers

Legal Issues For Language Centres

Liability and insurance

Licensing

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Media Arts

Moral rights

Moral Rights and Music

Moral Rights Infringement (& Letter of Demand Explanation)

Music and Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property

Music Copyright and Publishing for Bands and Musicians

Musicians and composers: useful resources

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New Media – Issues for creators working across multiple platforms

Non-fungible Token (NFT)

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Patents

Performers’ rights

Performers’ Rights in Music

PPCA Licensing

Privacy and the private sector

Protecting Business Names, Trade Marks and Domain Names

Protecting your designs

Protecting your ideas

Public Art – Design and Commissioning

Putting works online: FAQs for Artists and Arts Organisations

Putting Your Film or Photo Online

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Resale royalty right for visual artists

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Signing Legal Documents

Social Media for Artists

Story Telling – Legal Issues

Street Art

Street photographer’s rights

Superannuation and contract for services

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Takedown Notice – Copyright

Telling people’s stories on film

Trade marks

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Unauthorised use of your image

Using brands and products in film

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Website development

Why Art Centres Need To Register On The Personal Property Securities Register – PPSA Registration

Will for Visual Artists

WILLS KIT NSW – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

WILLS KIT NT – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

WILLS KIT QLD – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

WILLS KIT SA – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

WILLS KIT VIC – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

WILLS KIT WA – When an Aboriginal or Torres Straits Islander artist passes away with a will

Writers and authors: useful resources

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